Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0984649

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0984649

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Functional imaging of colour pathways in the living eye. In order to repair or regenerate a diseased eye, we require knowledge of the normal pattern or nerve cell connections, and knowing how biology solves the problem of colour vision can be used to improve the design of artificial vision systems. The adaptive optics machine we will build in this project can be used to image nerve cells, fine blood vessels, and nerve fibre bundles in the normal and diseased eye. This will improve Australia's research and development capacity in this new area of medical diagnostics. Our machine will be made available to other Australian laboratories and will improve the national capacity for making further scientific discoveries about how the visual system works.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 31-03-2013

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $490,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Zoology | Sensory Systems | Central Nervous System | Neurobiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological sciences | Central Nervous System | Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Neurobiology | Sensory Systems | Zoology

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