The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) awarded its highest honour Professor Paul Hodges, Director of the Centre of the University of Queensland for excellence in clinical pain, injury and health.
Professor Hodges presented the award for excellence in top-Ranked NHMRC loaded research of NHMRC Awards last night in Canberra. A total of 10 researchers were honoured at the price.
Peak Australia health and medical research body presents the award in recognition of the scientific value, innovation and success of leading researchers in medicine and the Australia health research.
Professor Hodges has a doctorate in physical therapy and neurosciences and uses its mix of skills bridge between basic research and clinical neurophysiology.
His work aims to understand the mechanisms of chronic pain and develop conservative treatments.
"Given the depth of Australia research excellence, is a great honour to receive this award," said Professor Hodges.
"The price is an important recognition of the quality research in physiotherapy in courses at the University of Queensland."
The centre funded by NHMRC, led by Professor Hodges undertakes research for the study of the physiology of chronic pain and develop and test new treatments. It aims at defining the research to clinical practice.
Professor Hodges said it was important to develop treatments not important medicinal conservatives to manage chronic pain, which has an impact on the lives of many people.
"Low back pain is the most common condition leading to deficiency Australia," he said.
"My job is to determine need what treatment and when, but also to understand why people continue to have episodes of pain and why treatments work."
NHMRC research fellowship scheme is the pre-eminent scheme through which the Australian health and medical researchers are funded.
Professor Hodges was the first physiotherapist to enter the schema of the award, the first physiotherapist to promote the scheme highest level (senior research officer) main and the night award recognizes him as the highest researcher in all disciplines in the year of funding rounds.
As the NHMRC CEO Professor Warwick Anderson has stated the awards were established to recognize and reward the achievements in the field of highly competitive health and medical research.
"These winners are researchers outstanding", said Professor Anderson. "As applicants highest-ranking in their funding schemes, these 10 researchers have been evaluated by their peers as meets national and international standards high for their research."
They had been identified as the 10 main of close to 5,000 researchers asked NHMRC funding in 2010. Four twenty per cent of these applications were funded.
Source:
University of Queensland.
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