Grants and Funding
DA–Vic offer some grants and funding opportunities to researchers and our Health Professional Member base.
Diabetes Australia Research Trust
The Diabetes Australia Research Trust (DART) was established in 1987 to support diabetes research in Australia. Peer reviewed grants are awarded to fund research into the prevention, management and cure of diabetes and to enable and foster young and upcoming diabetes researchers.
DART relies on the generosity and support of member organisations, corporates and individual donors. Every extra dollar ensures more vital research is undertaken.
Our growing fundraising success has enabled us to contribute over $800,000 during 2008-09 to the Diabetes Australia Research Trust (DART) to assist research programs across Australia.
You can support DART by way of tax deductible donations, estates or sponsorships. For information about how to donate to diabetes research go to donations.
2010 Diabetes Australia Research Trust Grants
140 applications were submitted from researchers conducting diabetes research in Victoria. The successful applicants for 2010 grants and their topics are:
Viertel Grant:
- Sean Mc Gee, Deakin University HDAC inhibition as an exercise mimetic and treatment for obesity and type 2 diabetes
Type 2 Millennium Grant:
- Dr Sofianos Andrikopoulos University of Melbourne Department of Medicine – Unravelling the mechanisms by which insulin hypersecretion is detrimental to B-Cell function and survival in type 2 diabetes
- Lea Delbridge, University of Melbourne, Cardio myocyte autophagy: Is too much of a good thing bad for the diabetic heart?
- Stuart Mannering, St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Towards insulin-specific peptide therapy to prevent type 1 diabetes
- Matthew Watt, Monash University, Liver secretory factors link fatty liver to inflammation and insulin resistance
Suzanne Rogers, University of Melbourne, Nutrient-stimulated glucose transport regulates whole body glucose homeostasis
- David Nikolic-Paterson, Monash University, A novel approach for the early detection of diabetic kidney disease
Special thanks to Philanthropic Services at the ANZ Trustees Limited for their contribution to the Viertel Prize and to Sanofi Aventis for their contribution.
More information about past and current DART grant recipients.
The Gwen Scott Grant is offered to any of our Health Professional members planning to pursue any diabetes-related professional development in 2009. Read more about it in the Health Professionals section.