AUSTRALIA-INDIA STRATEGIC RESEARCH FUND (AISRF)
CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FUNDING OUTCOMES 2007–2015
ROUND ONE (funding commenced in 2007)
Indo-Australian S&T Fund
Project Title
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Synthesis and characterization
of doped iron oxide nanoparticles for selective removal
of dissolved species from
contaminated
water/hydrometallurgical
process solutions
Murdoch University
(Professor Pritam
Singh)
Multifunctional zinc oxide films
Australian National
for acoustic and optoelectronics University
sensing device applications
Indian Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
CSIR Regional
Research Laboratory
Bhubaneswar
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(GST exclusive)
$282,000
(Professor B K
Mishra)
University of Delhi
$107,470
(Professor
(Professor K
Chennupati Jagadish)
Sreenivas)
Advanced oxidation processes
for the degradation of organic
pollutants in aqueous
environment
University of
Melbourne
Madurai Kamarajar
University
$374,000
(Dr P Maruthamuthu)
(Associate Professor
Muthupandian
Ashokkumar)
Developing the Swinburne
software correlator to process
data from the Indian Giant
Metre Wave Radio Telescope
for enhanced low frequency
astrophysics
Exploiting crystallographic
texture for improved nano-
Swinburne University
of Technology
TATA Institute of
Fundamental
Research National
Centre for Radio
astrophysics
(Dr Ramesh Bhat)
(Dr Jayaram
Chegalur)
Deakin University
Indian Institute of
$20,000
$328,315
crystalline metals
Processing of smart
biodegradable polymeric
composites
Technology
(Associate Professor
Matthew Barnett)
(Professor R
Balasubramaniam)
RMIT University
Indian Institute of
Technology
(Professor Sati
Bhattacharya)
Developing molecularly
targeted polymer nanoparticles
for cancer therapeutics and
diagnostics
Deakin University
(Associate Professor
Wei Duan)
$16,300
(Professor Anup
Kumar Ghosh)
Vision Research
Foundation
$321,219
(Dr Sankara
Krishnakumar)
Eco-geographical and
physiological approaches to
improve chilling tolerance in
Australia and India
CSIRO Plant Industry
Panjab University
(Dr Jens Berger)
(Dr J S Sandhu)
Meiosis in wheat and rice: are
the interactions and regulation
of this process conserved
between other diverse
eukaryote organisms?
University of Adelaide
University of Delhi
(Dr Jason Able)
(Associate Professor
Sanjay Kapoor)
Developing strategic alliances
and capability linkages
between CSIRO and Indian
textile R&D organisations
CSIRO Textile and
Fibre Technology
The Bombay Textile
$10,900
Research Association
(Mr Tim Head)
(Dr A N Desai)
CSIRO Australian
Telescope National
Facility
National Centre for
Radio Astrophysics
Galaxies in the local volume
(Dr Baerbel
Koribalski)
Research opportunities on
effective technologies to
increase the performance and
adoption of conservation tillage
TOTAL
$380,000
$322,500
$17,650
(Professor Jayaram
Chengalur)
University of South
Australia
Tamil Nadu
$17,100
Agricultural University
(Dr Jack Desbiolles)
(Professor V J F
Kumar)
$2,197,454.00
Indo-Australian Biotechnology Fund
Project Title
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Indian Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Genetic enhancement of
chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L)
using a two gene strategy to
confer protection against Pod
Borer (Helicoverpa armigera)
CSIRO Plant Industry
Enabling technologies for the
enzymatic bioremediation of
cyclic organochlorine residues
CSIRO Entomology
University of Delhi
(Dr John Oakeshott)
(Professor Rup Lal)
University of New
South Wales
Indian Institute of
Technology
Kharagpur
Biosynthetic silk-hydrogel
extracellular matrix analogues
for mammalian cell support and
drug delivery
(Dr TJ Higgins)
(Dr Laura PooleWarren)
Milk nutraceuticals: a
biotechnology opportunity for
Australian and Indian dairy
producers
University of
Melbourne
(Dr Sally Gras)
Establishing a risk assessment
chip for the eye disease age
related macular degeneration
Centre for Eye
Research Australia
(Professor Paul Baird)
RNA interference (RNAi) as an
antiviral mechanism against
hepatopancreatic parvovirus
(HPV)
James Cook
University
Assam Agricultural
University
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(GST exclusive)
$192,500
(Dr B.K. Sarmah)
$518,637
$232,572
(Dr S.C. Kundu)
Jadavpur University
$342,328
(Dr Chiranjib
Bhattacharjee)
Hyderabad Eye
$448,000
Research Foundation
LV Prasad Eye
Institute
(Professor D. Balasubramanian)
Karnataka Veterinary
Animal and Fisheries
Science University
$40,625
(Dr Indrani
Karunasagar)
(Professor Leigh
Owens)
A shield and sword approach to Queensland Institute
control streptococcal infections of Medical Research
Indian Institute of
Science Bangalore
$536,000
Raman spectroscopy and
imaging for understanding
molecular processes in live
cells
TOTAL
(Dr K S Sriprakash)
(Professor M.S
Shaila)
Monash University
National Centre for
Biological Sciences
(Professor Don
McNaughton)
$15,500
(Dr Mrinalini Puranik)
$2,326,162.00
Targeted Allocations Fund
Project Title
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
The establishment of a
strategic partnership between
the Commonwealth Scientific
and Industrial Research
Organisation (CSIRO) and
India's Council of Scientific and
Industrial Research (CSIR)
Commonwealth Scientific
and Industrial Research
Organisation
Establishment and operation of
a joint research academy
between Monash University
and the Indian Institute of
Technology at Bombay
Monash University
TOTAL
Indian Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(GST exclusive)
Council of Scientific and
Industrial Research
$3,500,000
Indian Institute of
Technology, Bombay
$1,500,000
(Ms Kimberley Shrives)
(Professor Tam
Sridhar)
$5,000,000.00
ROUND TWO (funding commenced in 2008)
Indo-Australian S&T Fund
Project Title
Re-establish trace gas
monitoring of climateforcing gases at Cape
Rama, India
Development of the
Giant Metrewave Radio
Telescope for pulsar
astrophysics and
Square Kilometre Array
demonstration
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
CSIRO Marine and
Atmospheric Research
(Chief Investigator)
National Institute of
Oceanography
(Dr Paul Fraser)
(Dr D V Borole)
Swinburne University of
Technology
National Centre for
Radio Astrophysics
Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research
(Professor Matthew
Bailes)
Fluid flow and
lubrication on the
nanometre scale
Indian Organisation
(GST exclusive)
$40,500
$350,000
(Professor Yashwant
Gupta)
University of South
Australia
Indian Institute of
Science
(Dr Rossen Sedev)
(Professor Sanjay
Biswas)
Hybrid magnetoelectric
nanostructures:
optimizing interface
coupling for enhanced
functionality
University of New South
Wales
National Chemical
Laboratories
(Dr Nagarajan
Valanoor)
(Dr Satishchandra B.
Ogale)
Identification of
molecular markers
closely linked with stem
rust resistance genes in
wheat
The University of
Sydney
National Chemical
Laboratories
(Dr Harbans Bariana)
(Dr Vidya Gupta)
Catalytic conversion of
carbohydrates as
renewable raw
materials to key
platform chemicals
using novel metal
supported mesoporous
materials
University of
Queensland
National Centre for
Catalysis Research IIT
Madras Chennai
Technical and
economic assessment
of improved Solar
Photovoltaic Linear
Concentrators and
determination of market
potential in India
Australian National
University
Australian National
University
(Dr Andrew Blakers)
(Dr L. Suganthi)
(Professor Max Lu)
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
$292,200
$324,500
$310,477
$326,568
(Dr P. Selvam)
$382,021
TOTAL
$2,026,266.00
Indo-Australian Biotechnology Fund
Project Title
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Esterified starch and oral
rehydration solution as a
treatment for acute infectious
diarrhoea
Commonwealth
Scientific and
Industrial Research
Organisation
(Dr Julie Clarke)
Sustainability of pyramided Bt
genes for insect control in crop
plants
Developing a global blueprint
for zero PCG: towards a
complete understanding of the
molecular basis of primary
congenital glaucoma
The University of
Melbourne
Indian Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Christian Medical
College & Hospital
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(GST exclusive)
$305,752
(Dr B.S.
Ramakrishna)
TERI University
(Associate Professor
Philip Batterham)
(Dr Vibha Dhawan)
The University of
Western Australia
Indian Statistical
Institute
$400,000
$125,500
(Dr P.P. Majumder)
(Professor Luba
Kalaydjieva)
Endogenous adult cardiac stem The Victor Chang
cells: genome wide analysis of Cardiac Research
multipotency and differentiation Institute
in homeostasis and
regeneration
(Professor Richard
Harvey)
Centre for Cellular
and Molecular
Biology
An advanced surface for the
cell therapy of limbal epithelium
for ocular surface disease:
proof of concept and clinical
trials
Centre for Eye
Research Australia
Hyderabad Eye
$400,000
Research Foundation
(Dr Mark Daniell)
(Dr Yashoda
Ghanekar)
Bioremediation of oilcontaminated marine and
freshwater environments
Flinders University
TERI
(Professor Andrew
Ball)
(Dr Banwari Lal)
The University of
Sydney
Institute of Advanced
Study in Science &
Technology
Development and optimization
of combined plant/microbe
technologies for bioremediation
$400,000
(Dr Jyotsna Dhawan)
$400,000
$15,000
of soils contaminated with
hydrocarbons and heavy
metals (workshop)
Plant nutraceuticals and
bioactive molecules: a growth
opportunity for the
pharmaceutical industry in
Australia and India (workshop)
(Associate Professor
Balwant Singh)
(Dr S C Bordoloi)
The University of
Sydney
JSS College of
Pharmacy
(Mr Stephen
Brancatisano)
(Dr M J Nanjan)
TOTAL
$20,579
$2,066,831.00
Targeted Allocations Fund
Project Title
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Indian Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(GST exclusive)
Workshop: ‘Nanocomposites’
for electronics, light yet strong
engineering applications,
coatings, fuel cell and clean
energy use
University of New
South Wales
Saha Institute of
Nuclear Physics
(Dr Leigh
Schwartzkoff)
(Professor M K
Sanyal)
A 3-year top-down collaborative
novel research proposal on
nanocomposites for electronics,
light yet strong engineering
applications, coatings, fuel cell
and clean energy use
University of New
South Wales
Saha Institute of
Nuclear Physics
$720,000
Protecting critical infrastructure
from denial of service attacks:
tools, technology and policy
Queensland
University of
Technology
Indian Institute of
Technology Madras
and Society for
Electronic
Transaction and
Security
$2,250,000
$50,000
(Associate Professor
Sri Bandyopadhyay)
(Professor Ed
Dawson)
(Professor S V
Raghvan)
Biomedical devices and
implants workshop 2009
Australian Academy
of Technological
Sciences and
Engineering
(Dr John Ramshaw)
All India Institute of
Medical Sciences
$55,000
TOTAL
$3,125,000.00
ROUND THREE (funding commenced in 2009)
Indo-Australian S&T Fund
Project Title
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Does climate change
drive evolution?
Griffith University
Indian Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Environment Protection
Training and Research
Institute
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(GST exclusive)
$194,635
(Professor David
Lambert)
(Dr Siva Kumar
Swaminathan)
Gas in galaxies in the
distant past
All-optical actuation and
interrogation of MEMS
and NEMS resonant
mode sensors
The impact of noise in
quantum electronics
Australian National
University
National Centre for
Radio Astrophysics
(Professor Frank
Briggs)
(Professor Jayaram N.
Chengalur)
The University of
Western Australia
Indian Institute of
Science
(Professor John Dell)
(Professor Rudra
Pratap)
The University of New
South Wales
Indian Institute of
Science
(Professor Michelle
Simmons)
(Dr Arindam Ghosh)
Long-term system
The University of
evolution of the
Melbourne
Krishna-Godavari Basin
and its hinterland in
(Dr Andrew Gleadow)
eastern India: a
partnership for
enhancing offshore
hydrocarbon exploration
success
National Geophysical
Research Institute
Impact of rainwater
harvesting on the
regional hydrological
balance in the Arawali
foothills region of India:
Combining catchment
The University of
Sydney
Water Technology
Centre at IARI
(Dr Willem Vervoort)
(Dr Anil Kumar Mishra)
Establishing AustralianIndian collaboration on
gravitational wave
The University of
Western Australia
Raman Research
Institute
$236,307
$350,000
$260,000
$330,000
(Dr Devender Kumar)
$137,871
$30,000
astronomy
Managing change in
soil moisture and
agricultural productivity
under a global warming
scenario using a
catchment scale climate
change assessment
model
(Professor David Blair)
(Professor B. R. Iyer)
The University of New
South Wales
Indian Institute of
Science
(Dr Ashish Sharma)
(Dr D Nagesh Kumar)
The thermal evolution of The University of
peninsula India: past
Adelaide
behaviours and future
potential
(Dr Alan Collins)
TOTAL
National Geophysical
Research Institute
$208,500
$350,000
(Dr T.R.K. Chetty)
$2,097,313.00
Indo-Australian Biotechnology Fund
Project Title
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Mechanisms of Chikungunya
virus disease: mouse model,
virulent and fitness
determinants and the
development of novel
therapeutics
University of
Canberra
(Professor Suresh
Mahalingam)
Indian Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
All Indian Institute of
Medical Sciences
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(GST exclusive)
$400,000
(Professor Shobha
Broor)
Comparative genomics of
Murdoch University
economically important
nematode pathogens leading to
transgenic nematode
resistance in wheat
(Professor Michael
Jones)
Indian Agricultural
Research Institute
Utilizing novel medical
techniques/ technologies and
devices to enhance our
understanding of common
health problems (atrial
arrhythmias and stroke)
associated with rheumatic heart
disease
The University of
Adelaide
Christian Medical
College
(Professor
Prashanthan
Sanders)
(Professor Sunil T.
Chandy)
Development of blood-stage
vaccines for Plasmodium
falciparum malaria based on
the EBA and PfRH proteins
Walter and Eliza Hall
Institute of Medical
Research
International Centre
for Genetic
Engineering and
Biotechnology
$400,000
(Dr Umarao)
$400,000
$400,000
(Dr James Beeson)
(Dr Chetan Chitnis)
Developing biodegradable
magnesium alloys for implant
materials
Deakin University
Centre for Cellular
and Molecular
Biology
$225,000
(Dr Cui'e Wen)
(Dr Gopal Pande)
Anti-tumour and anti-parasitic
and anti-bacterial activities of
neem and Fe/Se-saturated
bovine and immobilized buffalo
lactoferrin: a potential
alternative medicine
TOTAL
Deakin University
Postgraduate
Institute of Medical
Education and
Research
(Dr Jagat Kanwar)
(Dr R. Sehgal)
$280,000
$2,105,000.00
ROUND FOUR (funding commenced in 2010)
Indo-Australian S&T Fund
Project Title
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
The study of microwave losses
in ferrite thin films for meta
materials applications
Enabling new science with the
Murchison Widefield Array, an
international low frequency
pathfinder for the Square
Kilometre Array
Smart bombing of cancer stem
cells using aptamer-guided
nanoliposomal siRNA
Exposing the gold potential of
the Neoarchean “Himalaya” of
the Dharwar Craton in southern
India
Flexible carbonaceous hybrid
membranes for separation
applications
A novel way to reduce Platinum
metal loadings in a carbon
nanocomposite electrode to
produce low cost-high
efficiency commercially viable
Polymer Electrolyte Membrane
(PEM) fuel cells
Renewable energy from
biogas: technology
development
The University of
Western Australia
Indian Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(GST exclusive)
Indian Institute of
Technology
$232,000
(Professor Robert
Stamps)
(Professor Rangan
Banerjee)
Curtin University of
Technology
Raman Research
Institute
$380,362
(Professor Steven
Tingay)
(Associate Professor
Shiv Sethi)
Deakin University
Indian Institute of
Science
$400,000
(Professor Wei Duan)
(Professor Santanu
Bhattacharya)
Curtin University of
Technology
National Geophysical
Research Institute
$300,000
(Professor Neal
McNaughton)
(Dr Srinivasa Sarma
Drona)
Monash University
Indian Institute of
Technology
$298,954
(Professor Huanting
Wang)
Queensland
University of
Technology
(Professor A.K.
Suresh)
National Physical
Laboratory
$296,956
(Dr Andrew Dicks)
Monash University
(Dr Rakesh Mathur)
Indian Institute of
Petroleum
$270,180
(Professor Paul
Webley)
(Mr Bal Mukund
Shukla)
Indian Institute of
National ICT Australia
Technology
Design and implementation of a Limited
content distribution architecture
for remote and rural areas
(Dr Aaditeshwar
(Dr Anirban Mahanti)
Seth)
$299,577
From the Magellanic clouds to
the Milky Way: a new
understanding of galaxy
structure and interactions
based on kinematics of 5000
stars
$257,360
TOTAL
University of
Tasmania
(Dr Andrew Cole)
Indian Institute of
Astrophysics
(Dr Annapurni
Subramaniam)
$2,735,389.00
Indo-Australian Biotechnology Fund
Project Title
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Women's and
Children's Health
Research Institute
Approaches to develop an
effective HCV vaccine
Identification of diagnostic and
prognostic biomarkers to
improve management of
diabetic ulcers
Molecular recognition between
alkane hydroxylase and
rubredoxin in alkane-degrading
bacteria
Extraction and purification of
sorghum seed protein for
delayed delivery of bioactives
Solar bio-fuel and carbon
sequestration with
cyanobacteria: role of genetic
networks
Rational development and
evaluation of an effective
vaccine for the prevention of
Staphylococcal Mastitis in
bovines using mouse mastitis
as a model system
Molecular approaches for
sustaining crop productivity
under abiotic stress conditions
Indian Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(GST exclusive)
Indian Institute of
Science
$300,000
(Professor Eric
Gowans)
Queensland
University of
Technology
(Dr Saumitra Das)
Manipal University
$299,917
(Professor Zee
Upton)
Monash University
(Associate Professor
Anna Roujeinikova)
Curtin University of
Technology
(Dr Vinod Bhat)
Tata Institute of
Fundamental
Research
$297,838
(Dr Jayant Kayarkar)
Institute of Chemical
Technology
$299,673
(Dr Vishnu Pareek)
(Professor Arvind
Lali)
Monash University
Indian Institute of
Technology Mumbai
$296,461
(Dr Madhusudan
Chetty)
Curtin University of
Technology
(Professor Pramod
Wangikar)
Bharat Biotech
Foundation
$300,000
(Associate Professor
Trilochan Mukkur)
(Dr Nagendra Hegde)
The University of
Melbourne
International Centre
for Genetic
Engineering and
$300,000
Biotechnology
(Professor Mohan
Singh)
Engineering novel disease
resistance in wheat and rice by
silencing disease susceptibility
genes
CSIRO Plant Industry
(Dr Narendra Tuteja)
Tamil Nadu
Agricultural University
$300,000
(Dr John Manners)
(Dr R Samiyappan)
TOTAL
$2,393,889.00
Targeted Allocations Fund
Project Title
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Remote sensing of marine
ecosystems workshop
Commonwealth
Scientific and
Industrial Research
Organisation
Indian Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(GST exclusive)
Indian Space
Research
Organisation
$70,000
Amity University
$50,000
Sana Institute of
Nuclear Physics
$50,000
(Professor Arnold
Dekker)
Indo-Australian workshop on
solar energy
Australian National
University
(Dr Igor Skryabin)
Australia-India nanotechnology
workshop
Australian National
University
(Professor
Chennupati Jagadish)
TOTAL
$170,000.00
ROUND FIVE (funding commenced in 2011)
Indo-Australian S&T Fund
Project Title
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Preparing for climate change
on marine systems in Australia
and India
University of
Tasmania
(Associate Professor
Stewart Frusher)
Indian Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Central Marine
Fisheries Research
Institute
(GST exclusive)
$78,930
(Dr G Syda Rao)
The changing risks posed by
petroleum hydrocarbons in
groundwater environments:
multiphase fluid dynamics
coupled to multispecies
biodegradation
CSIRO
Hybrid organometalliccoordination complex materials
for nonlinear optics
Australian National
University
Raman Research
Institute
(Professor Mark
Humphrey)
(Mr K.
Krishnamaraju)
University of Sydney
National Institute of
Oceanography
Towards a unified East
Gondwanaland reconstruction
and its implications for
Himalayan Orogeny
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
Indian Institute of
Technology Madras
$400,000
(Dr Greg Davis)
(Dr Indumathi Nambi)
(Professor Dietmar
Muller)
$295,766
(Dr Yatheesh
Vadakkeyakath)
Characterization of the seismic
cycle in the central Himalayan
seismic gap using precise U-Th
dating of deformed
speleothems
University of
Melbourne
Indian Institute of
Science
(Professor Michael
Sandiford)
(Professor Kusala
Rajendran)
Energy conversion reactions:
fine tuning of electrocatalytic
activity through surface
manipulation guided by in situ
spectroscopic and microscopic
Monash University
CSIR-Central
Electrochemical
Research Institute
(Professor Alan Bond)
$299,038
$225,536
$299,439
studies
New generation molecular
magnetic materials: experiment
and theory
(Dr Kanala
Lakshminarasimha
Phani)
Monash University
(Professor Keith
Murray)
Securing chickpea productivity
under contemporary abiotic
stresses: improvement of
podding and seed-filling under
heat, drought and salinity
Highwall mining design and
development of norms for
Indian conditions
University of Western
Australia
(Professor Timothy
Colmer)
CSIRO
Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay
$300,000
(Dr Gopalan
Rajaraman)
International Crops
$299,837
Research Institute for
the Semi-Arid Tropics
(Dr Vincent Vadez)
Central Institute of
Mining and Fuel
Research
$286,292
(Dr Shivakumar
Karekal)
(Dr John Loui)
Improving our ability to predict
plant distributions under
changed climates:
incorporating dispersal into
predictions of species and
community distributions
TOTAL
CSIRO
Centre for Ecological
Sciences - Indian
Institute of Science
$288,342
(Dr David Westcott)
(Professor Raman
Sukumar)
$2,773,188
Indo-Australian Biotechnology Fund
Project Title
Development of
selenazole drugs as a
novel class of anticancer agents targeting
the immune regulatory
enzyme indoleamine
2,3-dioxygenase
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
University of New South
Wales
Indian Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Indian Institute of
Science
(Dr Shane Thomas)
(A/Professor
Govindasamy Mugesh)
Structure-based design
of malaria vaccines:
application to the
intrinsically disordered
antigen MSP2
Monash University
Indian Institute of
Science
Sustainable prawn
aquaculture by
delivering interfering
RNA to knockdown
Penaeus merguiensis
densovirus and
infectious hypodermal
and hematopoietic
necrosis virus
James Cook University
Engineering a novel
bioreactor and cell
sorter for pluripotent
stem Cell culture
Monash University
(Professor Raymond
Norton)
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(GST exclusive)
$300,000
$299,340
(Dr Hanudatta Sastry
Atreya)
Karnataka Veterinary,
Animal and Fisheries
Sciences University
$294,099
(Associate Professor
Leigh Owens)
(Professor Indrani
Karunasagar)
Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay
$299,539
(Dr Paul Verma)
(Professor Rangan
Banerjee)
Novel marine-derived
lipases and processing
methods for the
production of omega-3
concentrates for
functional foods,
pharmaceuticals and
nutraceuticals.
Deakin University
(Professor Colin
Barrow)
Centre for Cellular and
Molecular Biology
(Dr Mercy Joseph)
Discovery and
University of
manipulation of miRNAs Queensland
involved in hightemperature tolerance
(Associate Professor
in crop plants
Bernie Carroll)
International Centre for
Genetic Engineering
and Biotechnology
Therapeutic
approaches to
augmentation of adult
cardiac stem cells
Institute for Stem Cell
Biology and
Regenerative Medicine
Victor Chang Cardiac
Research Institute
(Professor Richard
Harvey)
$298,755
$299,700
(Dr Sunil Mukherjee)
(Professor K. Vijay
$400,000
Raghavan)
Two day workshop to
plan a programme of
collaborative laboratory
and clinical research on
the role of bovine
lactoferrin to prevent
prematurity, neonatal
sepsis and mortality
TOTAL
University of Sydney
(Professor William
Tarnow-Mordi)
Postgraduate Institute
of Medical Education
and Research
Chandigarh
$11,200
(Adjunct Professor
Praveen Kumar)
$2,202,633
ROUND SIX (funding commenced in 2012)
Indo-Australian S&T Fund
Project Title
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Topological Defects In NonCollinear Multiferroics: A
Nanodomain Approach To
Multifunctionality
(Chief Investigator)
The University of New The National
South Wales
Chemical
Laboratories
(Dr Nagarajan
Valanoor)
Magnetron Sputtering of
Nanolaminates with Materials
Designed and Engineered
Properties
Indian Organisation
Nanocomposite Material for
High-power Lithium Battery
Cathodes
Functionalised Hierarchical
Nanocomposites for Synthetic
Fuels Production
(GST exclusive)
$300,000
(Professor Satish
Ogale)
Swinburne University
of Technology
Banaras Hindu
University
(Professor Cuie Wen)
(Professor K. P.
Singh)
A new route to ultra-high quality The University of New Indian Institute of
hole-based nanoelectronic
South Wales
Technology Mumbai
devices
Development of innovative
spent wash treatment systems
and resource recovery options
for distillery applications
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(Professor Alex
Hamilton)
(Associate Professor
Kanti Das Gupta)
University of New
South Wales
Indian Institute of
Technology Roorkee
(A/Professor Gregory
Leslie)
(Professor Himanshu
Joshi)
University of Western
Sydney
Indian Institute of
Technology Madras
(Dr Adriyan Milev)
(Professor
Parasuraman
Selvam)
CSIRO
Indian Institute of
Petroleum
$400,00
$295,959
$280,000
$280,000
$280,000
(Dr Ken Chiang)
(Dr Nagabhartia
Viswanadham)
Novel Approach for Processing
The University of New Institute of Minerals
$365,00
Hazardous Electronic Waste
South Wales
(Professor Veena
Sahajwalla)
and Materials
Technology
(Professor Barada
Kanta Mishra)
Safe and sustainable use of
arsenic contaminated aquifers
in the upper Gangetic plain:
establishing a multi-disciplinary
Australian-Indian collaboration
Southern Cross
University
Jawaharlal Nehru
University
(Dr Scott Johnston)
(Professor AL
Ramanathan)
Workshops on Himalayan
Gneiss Domes
The Australian
National University
University of Kashmir
(Professor Gordon
Lister)
Optimization Techniques for
Human Language Technology
Macquarie University
$23,500
$40,000
(Professor Talat
Ahmad)
Indian Institute of
Technology Patna
$23,000
(Dr Diego Molla Aliod)
(Dr Asif Ekbal)
Utilisation of leading edge ICT
to enhance Australian and
Indian ground water and land
resources under climate
change scenarios
Edith Cowan
University
Indian Institute of
Technology Mumbai
(Dr Marcia Taylor)
(Professor
Adinarayana
Jagarlapudi)
Workshop on Techno
Economical Challenges of
Integrating Renewable Energy
Sources on Power System
Operations and Control
Queensland Institute
of Technology (QUT)
Indian Institute of
Technology Delhi
(Mr Michael McArdle)
(Associate Professor
Sukumar Mishra)
Spatially Enabled Nations:
Workshop on a metaintegrative framework towards
improving disaster
management practices in India
and Australia
The University of
Melbourne
Madras University
TOTAL
(Associate Professor
Nelson Lam)
$22,220
TBA
$34,000
(Dr Srikanth
Venkatesan)
$2,343,679
Indo-Australian Biotechnology Fund
Project Title
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
University of Melbourne
Novel Cell Surface
Markers for Endodermal
Stem and Progenitor
(Professor Martin Pera)
Cells in Health and
Disease
Indian Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Molecular Pathways
Regulating Ovarian
Cancer Cell Plasticity
and Stem Cell
Properties
Novel Vaccine Delivery
Systems that Elicit
Robust and Enduring T
Cell Memory
Responses:
Alternatives to BCG
Vaccination in
Tuberculosis Endemic
Regions
Designing combination
immunotherapy and
drug treatment to
control chronic
infectious diseases.
Locked nucleic acid
modified aptamersiRNA chimeric
conjugates for improved
chemosensitivity and
eradication of cancer
stem cells
The Australian National
University
National Center for Cell
Science
(Dr Danny Rangasamy)
(Dr Nibedita Leneke)
TOTAL
$297,000
$299,818
Queensland University
of Technology
National Center for Cell
Sciences
(Professor Judith
Clements)
(Dr Sharmila Bapat)
The University of
Melbourne
Immunology Laboratory
Institute of Microbial
Technology Chandigarh
$300,000
(Professor David
Jackson)
(Dr Javed Agrewala)
$400,000
Queensland Institute of
Medical Research
Banaras Hindu
University
(Dr Christian Engwerda) (Professor Shyam
Sundar)
Deakin University
$300,000
Vision Research
Foundation Sankara
Nethralaya
(Assoc Prof Jagat
Kanwar)
(Professor Krishna
Kumar)
Southern Cross
University
Workshop for the
strategic development
of Muricidae natural
medicines
(GST exclusive)
Institute for Stem Cell
Biology and
Regenerative Medicine
(Dr Kouichi Hasegawa)
An Insertional
Mutagenesis System to
Identify Epigenetic
Factors that Control
Embryonic Stem Cell
Differentiation
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
$296,030
Central Marine
Fisheries Research
Institute (CMFRI) ICARGovt. of India
(Dr Kirsten
Benkendorff)
(Dr K Vijayan)
$34,115
$1,926,963
GRAND CHALLENGE – ROUND ONE (funding commenced in 2012)
Project Title
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Ensuring food security:
harnessing science to
protect our grain harvest
from insect threats
Crop plants which remove
their own major biotic
constraints
TOTAL
(Chief Investigator)
University of
Queensland
Tamil Nadu
Agricultural University
(Professor Gimme
Walter)
(Dr Chandrasekaran
Subramaniam)
University of
Melbourne
International Centre for
Genetic Engineering
and Biotechnology
(Adjunct Professor
Derek Russell)
Genomic Approaches for
Stress Tolerant Chickpea
Indian Organisation
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(GST exclusive)
$2,984,247
$2,925,533
(Dr Raj Kamal
Bhatnagar)
Australian Centre for
Plant Functional
Genomics
International Crops
Research Institute for
the Semi-Arid Tropics
(Dr Tim Sutton)
(Dr Rajeev Varshney)
$2,976,123
$8,885,903
GRAND CHALLENGE – ROUND TWO (funding commenced in 2013)
Project Title
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
A point-of-care diagnostic
tool for tuberculosis
CSIRO
Indian Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Institute of Microbial
Technology
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(GST exclusive)
$2,308,241
(Dr Graeme Woodrow)
(Dr Ashwani Kumar)
Reducing the burden of
injury in India and Australia
through development and
piloting of improved systems
of care
Monash University
Mini DME: A custom
designed solution to bring
stranded gas to the energy
markets
CSIRO
(Professor Russell
Gruen)
All India Institute of
Medical Sciences
$1,913,832
(Professor Mahesh
Chandra Misra)
CSIR Indian Institute of
Petroleum
$2,944,300
(Dr Jim Patel)
(Dr Ankur Bordoloi)
Integrated technologies for
economically sustainable
bio-based energy
TOTAL
Queensland University
of Technology
Institute of Chemical
Technology
(Professor William
Doherty)
(Professor Arvind Lali)
$2,978,749
$10,145,122
ROUND SEVEN (funding commenced in 2013)
Indo-Australian S&T Fund
Project Title
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Indian Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Inter-dependencies of deep
crustal and surficial geological
processes during continental
collision
University of Sydney
University of Kashmir
(Professor Jonathan
Aitchison)
(Professor Talat
Ahmad)
Building triangulations for fast
topological computing
University of
Queensland
Indian Institute of
Science
(Associate Professor
Benjamin Burton)
(Professor Basudeb
Datta)
University of New
South Wales
Indian Institute of
Science
(Professor Michelle
Simmons)
(Associate Professor
Arindam Ghosh)
University of New
South Wales
Indian Institute of
Science
(Professor Ashish
Sharma)
(Professor Sekhar
Muddu)
Monash University
Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay
The Role of Noise in Silicon
Based Quantum Computing
What will the future be?
Projecting environmental
change in a warming world for
semi-arid landscapes
Hydrodynamic characteristics
of porous barriers under
nonlinear shallow water waves
(Professor Murray
Rudman)
Characterising the changing
Indian Ocean's
biogeochemistry and ecology
using revolutionary new robotic
tools
CSIRO
(Dr Nick HardmanMountford)
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(GST exclusive)
$284,500
$295,972
$300,000
$297,998
$265,742
(Dr Balaji
Ramakrishnan)
National Institute of
Oceanography
(Dr Wajih Naqvi)
$400,000
Innovative Solutions for
Deployment of Big Data and
Disaster Management
Applications on Clouds
CSIRO
Tata Institute of
Fundamental
Research
$400,000
(Dr Rajiv Ranjan)
(Professor R K
Shyamasundar)
Planar High-Gain Antennas
Based on Electromagnetic
Band Gap Concept
Macquarie University
(Professor Karu
Esselle)
Workshop on Reproductive
Biotechnologies for Agricultural
Research
South Australian
Research and
Development Institute
Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur
$394,062
(Professor Animesh
Biswas)
National Institute of
$42,450
Animal Biotechnology
(Dr Satish Kumar)
(Professor Paul
Verma)
Australia-India Workshop on
Smart Functional
Nanomaterials
University of
Melbourne
Jawaharlal Nehru
Centre for Advanced
Scientific Research
$34,540
(Dr David Jones)
(Professor Giridhar U
Kulkarni)
Indo-Australian Workshop on
Modelling Large-Scale Linked
Data
University of New
South Wales
(Professor Arcot
Sowmya)
Bio-nanotechnology
applications to improve plant
productivity and ecosystems
services
Deakin University
Indraprastha Institute
of Information
Technology, Delhi
$27,400
(Professor Ashwin
Srinivasan)
The Energy and
Resources Institute
$56,280
(Professor Tes Toop)
(Professor Alok
Adholeya)
Bio-Jet Fuel – A Key to Future
University of
Green and Sustainable Aviation Melbourne
CSIR-Indian Institute
of Petroleum,
Dehradum
$27,720
(Dr Gregory Martin)
(Dr Anil K Sinha)
TOTAL
$2,826,664
Indo-Australian Biotechnology Fund
Project Title
Antibody-dependent
cellular cytotoxicity
(ADCC): a new frontier
in vaccine research
Nanoengineered
autoantigens to prevent
and treat autoimmunity
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
University of Melbourne
(Professor Stephen
Kent)
Monash University
Indian Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
National AIDS
Research Institute
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(GST exclusive)
$400,000
(Dr Madhuri Thakar)
Amrita Institute of
Medical Sciences and
Research Centre
$291,960
(Professor Claude
Bernard)
(Professor Manzoor
Koyakutty)
Creating a new
Brassica crop species
for food and biofuel
University of
Queensland
Punjab Agricultural
University
(Dr Annaliese Mason)
(Professor Surinder
Banga)
The immunomodulatory
and angiogenic role of
bone marrow-derived
endothelial progenitor
cells in chronic liver
disease
Centenary Institute of
Cancer Medicine & Cell
Biology
Institute of Liver and
Biliary Sciences
Endothelial progenitor
cells (EPC) and
sphingosine-1phosphate (S1P) as
immunomodulators and
immunotherapeutic
targets during DENV
infection
Flinders University
Novel
immunomodulatory
agents for type II
diabetes through
targeting the NLRP3
inflammasome signaling
cascade
University of
Queensland
Indian Institute of
Chemical Technology
(Professor Matthew
Cooper)
(Dr V Jayathirtha Rao)
Comparative
transcriptomics of rice
and resurrection
plants, and exploitation
of novel genes for
dehydration tolerance
for improvement of
drought tolerance in
rice
Queensland University
of Technology
International Centre for
Genetic Engineering
and Biotechnology
(Dr Devanshi Seth)
$299,688
$300,000
(Associate Professor
Nirupma Trehanpati)
Christian Medical
College, Vellore
$295,621
(Dr Jillian Carr)
(Dr Asha Mary
Abraham)
(Professor Sagadevan
Mundree)
(Dr V Siva Reddy)
$282,365
$300,000
Workshop on multi-drug
resistant Pseudomonas
aeruginosa and ocular
infections
University of New South
Wales
LV Prasad Eye Institute
$5,065
(Dr Prashant Garg)
(Professor Mark
Willcox)
Collaborative workshop
on MEMS and its
applications in health
care
Deakin University
University of Mumbai
(Professor Lingxue
Kong)
(Professor Sundar
Manoharan)
Joint Australian/Indian
Workshop on Epithelial
Development, Function
and Disease - New
Frontiers and Therapies
Queensland University
of Technology
Manipal University
TOTAL
(Professor Zee Upton)
$31,000
$32,500
(Professor K
Satyamoorthy)
$2,238,199
ROUND EIGHT (funding commenced in 2015)
Indo-Australian S&T Fund
Project Title
Australian
Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Tailoring plant protease
inhibitors for control of the crop
pest Helicoverpa armigera
University of
Queensland
(Professor Glenn
King)
Value Adding to Agriculture
Waste by Catalytic Gasification
to Bio-Fuel Production
Harnessing the plantmicrobiome for drought
tolerance and improved wheat
productivity in Australian and
Indian environments
Indian Organisation
(Chief Investigator)
Tata Institute of
Fundamental
Research
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(GST exclusive)
$199,496
(Professor Kandala
Chary)
University of
Queensland
Indian Institute of
$199,052
Chemical Technology
(Dr Jorge Beltramini)
(Professor Komandur
V R Chary)
Flinders University of
South Australia
International Centre
for Genetic
Engineering and
Biotechnology
$200,000
(Professor
Christopher Franco)
(Dr Narendra Tuteja)
Mining alleles for heat
tolerance of wheat in Australian
and Indian environments for
development of heat resilient
cultivars
Australian Centre for
Plant Functional
Genomics
Punjab Agricultural
University
$199,468
(Dr Kuldeep Singh)
(Dr Delphine Fleury)
Sustainable water management RMIT University
system for water desalination
and agricultural irrigation
(Dr Abhijit Date)
independent of electric grid
University of Pune
Biomonitoring of pesticides in
rivers and streams vis-a-vis
ecological services and
functions
Assam University
University of
Canberra
(Dr Ben Kefford)
$132,104
(Professor Subhash
Ghaisas)
(Professor Abhik
Gupta)
$126,401
Identification and management
of sewage effluent discharges
to keep our rivers healthy:
Comparative investigations in
India and South Australia
CSIRO
CSIR Indian Institute
of Toxicological
Research
$200,000
(Dr Anupama Kumar)
(Dr Kailash Gupta)
TOTAL
$1,256,521
Indo-Australian Biotechnology Fund
Project Title
Preclinical trials of a
quadrivalent hepatitis C virus
vaccine
Integrated biorefinery for
production of sorghum seed
protein
Comparative genomics of
important nematode
pathogens leading to
transgenic nematode
resistance in wheat and
sugarcane (Follow on project)
TOTAL
Australian
Organisation
Indian
Organisation
Australian AISRF
Funding Awarded
(Chief Investigator)
(Chief Investigator)
(GST exclusive)
University of Adelaide
Indian Institute of
Science
$200,000
(Professor Eric
Gowans)
(Prof Saumitra Das)
Curtin University of
Technology
Institute of Chemical
Technology, Mumbai
(Dr Ranjeet Utikar)
(Dr Sandeep Kale)
Murdoch University
Indian Agricultural
Research Institute
(Professor Michael
Jones)
$200,000
$200,000
(Dr Uma Rao)
$600,000