The following are past and current successful ARC & NHMRC grant projects application where VU was the administering organisation.

ARC Discovery Projects

  • Discovering the role of pH in regulating mitochondrial biogenesis, so as to improve the design of preventative programs aimed at healthy ageing - Professor David Bishop
  • Designing the Surface and Structural Properties of MFI Zeolite Membranes for Low Energy Ion-Selective Desalination - Associate Professor Mikel Duke
  • Capacitating Student Aspirations in Classrooms and Communities of a High Poverty Region - Dr Lew Zipin
  • Peking opera, epitheatre and homoerotic writing in nineteenth-century Beijing - Dr Mark Stevenson
  • The Irish in Colonial Australia: Race, Representation and Repression - Dr Dianne Hall

ARC Linkage Projects

ARC DECRA Projects

  • Discovering The Effects of alpha-actinin-3 Deficiency on Muscle Adaptations to Exercise Training in Humans - Dr Nir Eynon
  • Modern Mania: The Emergence of Passionate Spectator Sport Cultures in Melbourne, Manchester and Boston - Dr Matthew Klugman.

NHMRC Project Grants

  • 2011-2013: NHMRC Project Grant (1012181). Does exercise increase skeletal muscle insulin sensitivity via nitric oxide? - G. McConell and S. Rattigan ($543,390)