The ACDDR Investigators

ACDDR Chief Investigator

Professor Grant Morahan

Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR)

Professor Grant Morahan was appointed as the Diabetes Research Foundation Professor at the University of Western Australia in February 2005. The Centre for Diabetes Research is located within the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research at the Royal Perth Hospital Campus. Professor Morahan holds a PhD from Melbourne University, and was previously Head of the Complex Genetics Diseases Laboratory at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne. Professor Morahan is the Chief Investigator on the Australian Childhood Diabetes DNA Repository.

Competitive Funding in Last 5 Years

1998-2002	NHMRC-Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International Special Research Program
2002-2003	Diabetes Australia Millennium Grant
2003-2008	NHMRC Research Fellowship
2004-2009	NHMRC Program Grant (Harrison, Lew, Kay, Morahan)

ACDDR Investigators

Professor Frank Christiansen

University of Western Australia, PathWest and Royal Perth Hospital (RPH)

Professor Christiansen has more than 20 years experience in immunogenetics of disease and transplantation with 190 refereed publications and over $5.1 million in NHMRC funding. Professor Christiansen is the Director of the Division of Laboratory Medicine at PathWest (Royal Perth Hospital) as well as the Head of the Department of Clinical Immunology and Biochemical Genetics.

Competitive Funding in Last 5 Years

2000-2002	NHMRC Project Grant (Price, Allcock, Christiansen, Witt, French)
2002	NHMRC Equipment Grant (Christiansen, Puddey, Beilin, Jablensky, Mallal, Waterer, van Bockxmeer, Norman, Price, Flicker, Almeida, Iacopetta, Croft, Watts, Stacey, Mamotte)
2004-2006	NHMRC Project Grant (Witt, Christiansen)
2003-2005	NHMRC Project Grant (Mallal, Christiansen, Martin, Nolan, Witt)
2003-2005	NHMRC Project Grant (Mallal, Christiansen, John, Moore, Sayer, James)
2005-2007	WA Government Centres of Excellence in Science and Innovation Program (Bellgard, Gojobori, Appels, Ravine, Bittles, Hampson, Christiansen, Taplin, Moolhuijzen)

Associate Professor Peter Colman

Royal Melbourne Hospital

Associate Professor Colman has 20 years experience in clinical diabetes research and is currently the Director of the Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology (Royal Melbourne Hospital) and the Endocrine Laboratory Pathology Department. He is a coinvestigator in the US based Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) TrialNet; the Asia-Pacific T1D Genetics Network; and is the Keeper of the Australian T1D DNA Repository.

Competitive Funding in Last 5 Years

1997	Diabetes Australia Research Grant
1997-2002	NHMRC & JDF Diabetes Interdisciplinary Research Program Grant
1999-2002	Victoria Health Promotion Fund Grant
2004	JHA Munro Foundation Grant

Associate Professor Tim Jones

Princess Margaret Hospital (Perth), The University of Western Australia

Associate Professor Jones has 16 years experience in T1D management and research in the areas of epidemiology and genetics of T1D. Professor Jones is the Head of the Diabetes and Endocrinology Department (Princess Margaret Hospital) and is responsible for diagnosis and care of ~1000 WA children and adolescents with diabetes.

Competitive Funding in Last 5 Years

2001	NHMRC/JDRF Special Program Grant in Type 1 Diabetes
2003	National Heart Foundation Grant-in-Aid
2004	Healthway Research Project Grant

Associate Professor Kim Donaghue

The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney

Associate Professor Donaghue has led a clinical research team since 1990 recruiting families for ongoing assessment of diabetes complications and researched the genetic associations of these complications. Associate Professor Donaghue served on the NHMRC/JDRF Special Program Grants in Diabetes Scientific Review Panel in 2004/05 and coordinates the NSW Paediatric Diabetes Outreach Service.

Competitive Funding in Last 5 Years

2003-2004	Global Research and Development (Principal investigator)
2003-2004	Type I Diabetes Genetics Consortium: International consortium (Associate investigator)
2003-2004	Diabetes Australia Millennium Grant (Chief co-investigator)
2001-2002	Global Research and Development, (Principal investigator)

ACDDR Associate Investigators

Professor George Werther

Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne

Professor Werther is the Director of a clinical department with one of the largest populations of children and adolescents with diabetes internationally. Professor Werther's research is heavily diabetes-oriented, both clinical and basic, with emphasis on developmental aspects of the impact of diabetes on young people and their families, as well as investigating mechanisms of diabetes complications.

Dr John Cardinal

Royal Brisbane Hospital

Dr Cardinal has over 20 years experience in endocrine genetic research and diagnostics while working within Queensland Health as a hospital based staff scientist and laboratory manager. Dr Cardinal acts as manager of the Queensland Health Endocrine Cancer Genetics DNA Bank and has strong links with Queensland Health endocrinologists throughout Queensland. Dr Cardinal will use his position to enable a state wide collection of DNA samples from patients with childhood diabetes when they attend Queensland Health clinics.

Ms Amanda Loth

Royal Melbourne Hospital

Ms Loth has provided training and overseen recruitment for the Australian T1D DNA Repository and the Asia-Pacific network of the T1D Genetics Consortium.