The following table shows all external funds won by the NVRI since 2011 from Australian competitive grant sources and philanthropic organisations.
|
Funding Period |
Source |
Title |
|
2014-2021 |
Australian Research Council |
ARC Centre of Excellence – Integrative Brain Function |
|
2017 - 2019 |
National Health and Medical Research Council |
Development Grant - Development of a high acuity retinal prosthesis |
|
2016-2019 |
National Health and Medical Research Council |
Project Grant – Next generation cybernetics: Long term carbon fibre dual stimulation/recording arrays for closed loop neural implants |
|
2016-2019 |
National Health and Medical Research Council |
Project Grant – Neuro-feedback for improved efficacy of retinal prosthesis |
|
2016-2018 |
Lions Club of Victoria |
Half funding for three year postdoctoral position |
|
2016-2018 |
LEW Carty Charitable Fund |
Half funding for three year postdoctoral position |
|
2016 |
Rebecca L Cooper Medical Research Foundation |
Funds to purchase electrode puller |
|
2016 |
Lions Club of Victoria |
Lions Research Fellow |
|
2016 |
John Nicola Foundation |
Funds for staff travel |
|
2012-2015 |
National Health and Medical Research Council |
Project Grant – Mechanisms and pathways to saccadic suppression in primate brain |
|
2015 |
Melbourne University |
Melbourne Neuroscience Institute new initiative fund |
|
2015 |
Lions Club of Victoria |
Lions Research Fellow |
|
2015 |
LEW Carty Charitable Fund |
Funds to purchase multi-channel microelectrode arrays |
|
2015 |
John Nicola Foundation |
Funds for staff travel |
|
2014 |
Lions Club of Victoria |
Lions Research Fellow |
|
2014 |
ANZ Trustees |
William Buckland Foundation – funds to support essential intracellular recording equipment |
|
2013-2014 |
Defence Science and Technology Organisation |
Night vision goggle testing |
|
2010-2014 (brought to NVRI in 2011) |
Australian Research Council |
ARC Fund for the Bionic Eye – Bionic Vision Australia |
|
2013 |
Sandringham Club |
Funds for vision research |
|
2013 |
CASS Foundation |
Travel Grant – Dr Adam Morris to attend Society for Neuroscience, USA |
|
2013 |
LEW Carty Charitable Fund |
Funds to purchase electrical stimulation equipment |
|
2013 |
Rebecca L Cooper Medical Research Foundation |
Funds to assist with purchase of confocal microscope |
|
2013 |
Lions Club of Victoria |
Lions Research Fellow |
|
2010-2013 (brought to NVRI in 2011) |
National Health and Medical Research Council |
Project Grant – Determining the electrical stimulation parameters required to program the bionc eye to effect vision |
|
2009-2013 (brought to NVRI in 2011) |
National Health and Medical Research Council |
Project Grant – Measuring and modelling visual cortical plasticity |
|
2009-2013 (brought to NVRI in 2012) |
National Health and Medical Research Council |
CJ Martin Fellowship – Dr Adam Morris |
|
2005-2013 (brought to NVRI in 2011) |
Australian Research Council |
ARC Centre of Excellence – Vision Science |
|
2012 |
Eirene Lucas Foundation |
Funds to assist with purchase of confocal microscope |
|
2012 |
Lions Club of Victoria |
Lions Research Fellow |
|
2009-2012 (brought to NVRI in 2011) |
National Health and Medical Research Council |
Project Grant – Saccadic eye movements and the neural basis of visual perception |
|
2011 |
Lions Club of Victoria |
Lions Research Fellow |
|
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NVRI funds
Schultz-Laubman-Schultz Endowment Fund. Provision of ongoing funding to the NVRI.
NVRI’s Governors Endowment Fund. Provision of ongoing funding to the NVRI.










