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2009 Ramaciotti Award recipientsRamaciotti Establishment and Major Equipment GrantsThe Establishment and Major Equipment Grants have been awarded to 30 recipients across Australia. View the complete list of recipients Ramaciotti Medal for Excellence in Biomedical ResearchProfessor Geoff McFadden from Melbourne has been awarded the Ramaciotti Medal for his work in developing new ways to combat one of the world’s major health problems, malaria. The malaria parasite infects more than 300 million people each year, killing around 1 million of them, who are mostly small children. In his research, Prof. McFadden co-discovered a plant-like structure known as a ‘chloroplast’ in the parasite that causes malaria. His team’s subsequent research has focused on why the parasite has a relict structure in common with plants, providing hope for a new and different way of treating the disease.
Ramaciotti Biomedical Research AwardThis $1 million grant has been awarded to a joint research team led by Professor Phillip Robinson and Professor Roger Reddel from the Children's Medical Research Institute, and Professor Adam McCluskey from The University of Newcastle, to create the world’s first ‘Centre for Kinomics’. The ‘Centre for Kinomics’ will provide the resources for 23 participating New South Wales research teams to analyse current therapeutic drugs and develop new, more effective ones. The equipment funded by the grant will be located within two new custom-built research laboratories, one based at the Children's Medical Research Institute and the other at the University of Newcastle.
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