Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0559821

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0559821

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Chemical Insights to Peptide Helix-Sheet-Nanofibre Equilibria. We live in an ageing community that is experiencing exponential growth in neurological diseases that require full time carers and place significant burdens on our health system. Many such diseases are caused by (apparently) abnormal folding of proteins that aggregate into insoluble materials. The chemistry behind these processes is not sufficiently well understood to know precisely why the diseases are caused and how they might be treated. This project will use new strategies to control peptide folding, provide important new information relevant to understanding such processes/diseases, and teach us how to engineer important new biomaterials that can advance nanotechnology.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2005

End Date: 31-12-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $280,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry | Biological And Medical Chemistry | Chemical Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Biotechnology Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biological sciences | Chemical sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological And Medical Chemistry | Biological sciences | Biotechnology Not Elsewhere Classified | Chemical Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Chemical sciences | Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry

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