ProfessorPeter Vuillermin

Chair in Medicine and Director of Research

Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation

  • Chair in Medicine and Director of Research
    Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation
  • 0400071218 (Mobile)
  • HERB, Health, Education and Research Building (HERB), Level 1, 285 Ryrie Street, Geelong

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Foundations of a Resilient Microbiome: The Barwon Infant Study
    2 Mar 2026 - 1 Mar 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    Wellcome Leap - Foundations of a Resilient Microbiome (FORM) - $1,738,640.00
  • GRANT
    A midwife-delivered prenatal dietary intervention to prevent perinatal depression and child neurocognitive vulnerability in regional and rural communities: a randomised controlled trial
    1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2030
    People funded by this grant:
    MRFF Maternal Health and Healthy Lifestyles - 2042534 - $2,922,893.68
  • GRANT
    Using placental transcriptomics for molecular detection and improved outcomes in autism
    1 Jul 2025 - 30 Jun 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Vuillermin P,
    • Ponsonby A-L,
    • Sominsky L,
    • Saffery R,
    • Drummond K
    NHMRC - Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies Grant - 2043828 - $937,221.80
  • GRANT
    Biological programming of child mental health in early life: understanding mechanisms and their timing
    1 Dec 2024 - 30 Nov 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    MRFF EPCDR Childhood Mental Health Research Grant - 2036116 - $991,484.70
  • GRANT
    Identifying biological mechanisms and targets for prevention of perinatal depression
    24 Oct 2024 - 30 Apr 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    The Pat, Toni and Peter Kinsman Research Scholarship - F2024/1147 - $50,000.00
  • GRANT
    The effect of a gut-focused dietary smartphone app for pregnant women on the infant gut microbiome: Bugs & Bumps RCT
    1 Jun 2023 - 30 Nov 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Waterloo Foundation - Child Development - 2013-5198 - $142,627.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Investigating whether the expression of immune related genes in the placenta influence the baby's risk of developing food allergy.
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    Epworth Foundation - $50,000.00
  • GRANT
    The mental health data-sharing node: HeSANDA
    28 Oct 2021 - 22 May 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    ARDC Health Studies National Data Asset Program - Australian Research Data Commons - HS006 - $342,731.92
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    The Pregnancy Research and Translation Ecosystem (PRT-E)
    1 Jul 2021 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Western Alliance - $258,619.70
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Prenatal chemical environments, offspring neurodevelopment and epigenetic programming.
    17 Jun 2021 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Peter Vuillermin
    The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health - Grant - $178,628.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Long term physical and psychological consequences of Covid-19 infection. A Comparitive Observational Study in Regional Victoria.
    21 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Jobs, Precincts & Regions - $566,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Paediatric Research Project
    1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Peter Vuillermin
    Barwon Health - $250,000.00
  • GRANT
    Prevention of wheeze-associated hospitalisation in preschoolers with the immunomodulator OM85: a multi-centre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
    1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Vuillermin P,
    • Sly P,
    • McNab S,
    • Lee K,
    • Gold L
    OM Pharma - $913,566.37
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Understanding the basis of the association between maternal carriage of Prevotella during pregnancy and protection against food allergy in the baby.
    1 Sep 2020 - 31 Aug 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Peter Vuillermin
    Epworth Foundation - $25,000.00
  • GRANT
    Prevention of wheeze-associated hospitalisation in preschoolers with the immunomodulator OM85: a multi-centre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
    1 Jul 2020 - 31 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Vuillermin P,
    • Sly P,
    • McNab S,
    • Lee K,
    • Gold L
    NHMRC - Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies Grant - APP1188936 - $1,624,181.40
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Evaluation of the expansion of telehealth through primary care in Australia.
    1 Jun 2020 - 1 Jun 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    Western Alliance - $48,500.00
  • GRANT
    Gestational diabetes and offspring bone health in childhood
    27 Jun 2019 - 26 Jun 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    Norman Beischer Medical Research Foundation - $92,640.00
  • GRANT
    A longitudinal population-based study of the development of cardiovascular risk in early childhood
    1 Mar 2019 - 29 Feb 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Burgner D,
    • Saffery R,
    • Juonala M,
    • Ponsonby A-L,
    • Lawlor D
    NHMRC Project Grant - APP1164212 - $772,235.40
  • FELLOWSHIP
    Manipulating the maternal and infant microbiome for prevention of immune related disease
    1 Jan 2019 - 31 Oct 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Peter Vuillermin
    NHMRC CDF - Career Development Fellowship - APP1166319 - $291,131.67
  • GRANT
    Identifying Novel Lipid and Genetic Signatures of Metabolic Disease in Early Childhood
    1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Meikle P,
    • Karnani N,
    • Burgner D,
    • Wenk M,
    • Kingwell B
    NHMRC A*STAR Joint Call for Research - APP1149047 - $25,072.00
  • GRANT
    Investigating early life exposure to plastic products in Australia and subsequent neurodevelopmental effects
    1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ponsonby A-L,
    • Dewey D,
    • Mueller J,
    • Vuillermin P
    NHMRC Project Grant - APP1147970 - $545,012.30
  • GRANT
    Maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy influences offspring atopy and asthma
    1 Jan 2018 - 31 Jan 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Vuillermin P,
    • Gray L
    NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship (Cat 1) - APP1151322 - $46,686.70
  • GRANT
    Maternal carriage of Prevotella during pregnancy influences offspring innate immune responses and asthma at age 7
    13 Dec 2017 - 31 Dec 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Vuillermin P,
    • Macia L,
    • Sly P,
    • Mackay C,
    • Ranganathan S
    NHMRC Project Grant - GNT1147980 - $924,036.00
  • GRANT
    Microbial exposure, innate immune development and asthma
    15 Feb 2017 - 28 Feb 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Vuillermin P,
    • Harrison L,
    • Ranganathan S,
    • Sly P,
    • Collier F
    RLCMRF Grant - Research - Rebecca L Cooper Medical Research Foundation - $29,584.00
  • GRANT
    The relationship between maternal and infant dietary intake of fermentable fibre, gut microbiota, short chain fatty acids and allergic disease and asthma: a population-derived birth cohort study
    1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Vuillermin P,
    • Ponsonby A-L,
    • Zhang Y,
    • Tang M,
    • Saffery R
    NHMRC Project Grant - APP1082307 - $873,266.90