ProfessorAlister Ward

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Consistently successful at obtaining competitive funding, Professor Ward has been awarded funds totalling in excess of $4.2 million, with the majority from National Competitive Grant Schemes. He has also received a number of prestigious fellowships, including a European Molecular Biology Organisation Long-Term Fellowship, an AMRAD Postdoctoral Award and a Sylvia and Charles Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship. In the last 10 years these include:

Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant, Socs proteins in health and disease, 2005-2007 $215 000 (CI: AC Ward)

Australian & Pacific Science Foundation Grant, Impact of subterranean water on the physiology and health of Murray Cod (Maccullochella peeli peeli), 2006-2008 $28 000 (CIs: P Jones, S De Silva, G Turchini, T Toop, AC Ward)

Geelong Community Foundation Grant, Establishment of medical school, 2007 $30 000 (CIs: W Duan, B Crotty, AC Ward)

National Health & Medical Research Council Enabling Grant, Australian zebrafish phenomics facility, 2007-2011 $1 500 000 (CIs: A Perkins, B Key, J Rothnagel, A Ward, S Grimmond, P Alewood, D Hume, A Boyd, M Lardelli)

Geelong Community Foundation, Establishment of GTRAC, 2009 $47 000 (CI: AC Ward)

The Foundation for Children, Defining mechanisms underlying skeletal muscle development and muscular dystrophy, 2010-2012 $157 000 (CIs: D McCulloch, N Stupka, AC Ward)

Collier Charitable Fund, Study of embryonic development: automatic gene detection device, 2012 $48 000 (CIs: Y Gibert, AC Ward)

Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure Equipment Fund Grant, Collaborative high bio-containment immunological research facility, 2012 $520 000 (CIs: AC Ward, J Mak, LF Wang, J Stambas, J Lowenthal, R Tripp, TF de Koning-Ward, WA Buttemer)

Atkins Charitable Trust, Role of cytokine receptors in ovarian cancer, 2012-2015 $42 500 (CIs: AC Ward, W Duan, D McCulloch)

CI-Ward has a strong presence in the local, national and international research community, illustrated by the following specific activities:

> Conference Organisation:

8th Australian & New Zealand Zebrafish Workshop, Geelong, Australia (2007)

- Organising Committee (Chair)

Infection & Immunity Conference, Gold Coast, Australia (2009)

- Scientific Advisory Committee

Emerging Infectious Diseases Conference, Geelong, Australia (2012)

- Scientific Advisory Committee

4th International One Health Conference, Melbourne, Australia (2016)

- Organising Committee

> Grant Review:

Australian Research Council

- International Reader (2004-)

- College of Experts Member (2013-)