This edition showcases 10 research projects from 2019 to 2020 that exemplify the extraordinary quality and diversity of projects funded by NHMRC. From delivering culturally safe maternity care for Aboriginal women, discovering, and developing better pain treatments, improving in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment methods, and harnessing the body’s own immune system to improve vaccines is just a little taste of what these stories are about.

Explore the stories below. A PDF version is available in the Downloads section.

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Accelerating change in driver safety screening

Changes in our vision, hearing, mobility and cognitive abilities, such as processing speed, memory and executive function, can impact on…

Indigenous women talking and laughing

Community-designed and delivered suicide intervention

Before applying for a research grant in 2014, Professor Toombs asked her supervisor, 'How about I go and yarn with mob and see what…

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Delivering a legacy of culturally safe maternity care

Professor Rhonda Marriott AM, a descendant of Nyikina people of the Kimberley, has devoted five decades to nursing and midwifery in…

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Driving change in aged care pharmacy practices through data

Having practised as a hospital pharmacist by day and a residential aged care pharmacist by night, Dr Lisa Pont naturally began to think…

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Enhancing future pain treatments using venoms

Cone snails are a highly venomous sea snail which produce venom peptides that act very selectively across a range of neurological…

Biofilms

Fighting biofilms with a Trojan Horse

Biofilms are present in our everyday lives.

Baby using a ventilator to support their breathing

Growing up and getting stronger: improving the long-term health of premature babies

'Ventilators had some success, but a lot of the babies still died, and I wanted to know how to improve this process,' Professor Doyle…

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Harnessing the power of natural immunity to extend vaccine protection

Up to 650,000 people die of respiratory diseases linked to seasonal influenza (flu) worldwide each year.…

Stem cell

Improving fertility treatment through innovation

Infertility affects 1 in 6 couples globally.1 According to the World Health…

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Mentors inspire an Indigenous research career with impact

During the four-year fellowship, Professor Chamberlain discovered that many interventions to reduce cardiometabolic risk in this cohort…

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