Griffith University has been awarded more than $7.5 million for research into everything from frogs to disease in plants and batteries.
The Australian Research Council announced the outcomes from the Discovery Programmes schemes today (November 10), with Griffith receiving 13 ARC Discovery Projects, one Discovery Indigenous, five Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA) and one Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) grant.
The $1.7 million DECRA awards had an outstanding success rate of 22.7 per cent in a national success rate of 16.3 per cent.
Vice Chancellor Professor Ian O’Connor AC and and Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor Professor Ned Pankhurst congratulated the recipients on their achievements.
The successful projects are:
ARC Discovery Projects
Dr John Atack from the Institute for Glycomics was awarded $482,299 for project “Phase-variable epigenetic regulators in bacterial veterinary pathogens”.
Project team: Dr Patrick Blackall (The University of Queensland)
Dr William Bennett from the Environmental Futures Research Institute was awarded $327,316 for project “Unravelling vanadium biogeochemistry in modern marine sediments”.
Project team: Prof Enzo Lombi (University
Skip to content
News and other stories about real people, places, and events in Mount Gravatt and nearby suburbs.