UNSW Leaders in ScienceAssociate Professor Peter White Senior Lecturer in Microbiology and Molecular BiologyBiological Sciences Building, Room 263A Phone: +61 2 9385 3780 - Fax: +61 2 9385 1483 - Email: p.white@unsw.edu.au Career profilePublicationsResearchSupervision & teachingFunding PhD positions available
Opportunities are now available for PhD research projects supervised by Associate Professor Peter White. Click here to find out more about postgraduate research at the UNSW Faculty of Science. FundingPeter White has received research funding of $4,074,000, since 2003, 14 grants and 1 commercialisation as CI-A totalling (career total of $5,975,500). Title of project and names of Chief Investigators | Role | Source and scheme | Start Date | Duration | Total Grant Amount AUD$ | Direct Funding through Industry and Granting Bodies | | | | | | Virological correlates of clinical response to treatment with different doses of pegylated interferon and ribavirin. Rawlinson, White, Dore, Baleriola, Miller, Cheng, Crawford, McCaughan, Sievert, Weltman, Roberts. | CI-B | Roche - CHARIOT study | 01-2007 | 2 yrs | $192,000 | Detection of enteric viruses in water and environmental samples. White. | CI-A | Ecowise Environmental Plc. Ltd. Commercialisation of IP | 10-2006 | 3 yrs | $63,000 | RNA polymerase inhibitors of HCV. White. | CI-A | Biotron Ltd | 01-2006 | 1 yr | $4,000 | Hepatitis C Virus Vaccine Design and Vector Development Team (HCVVDT). Ramshaw, Thomson, White, Ffrench, Rawlinson, Lloyd . | CI | Australian Centre for Hepatitis and HIV Virology (ACH2). | 01-2005 | 1.5 yrs | $120,000 | Novel replication assays for hepatitis C virus. White. | CI-A | Perpetual Philanthropic Foundations -Alma Hazel Eddy Trust | 01-2005 | 1 yr | $16,000 | Heteroduplex mobility analysis for tracking hepatitis quasispecies evolution. White, Rawlinson. | CI-A | Australian Centre for Hepatitis and HIV Virology (ACH2). | 06-2004 | 1.5 yrs | $120,000 | Hepatitis C virus vaccine design and vector development team. Ramshaw, Thomson, Ffrench, Jaramillo, Rawlinson, White. | CI | Australian Centre for Hepatitis and HIV Virology (ACH2). | 06-2004 | 1.5 yrs | $170,000 | Molecular methods for tracing faecal viruses in the catchment. White. | CI-A | Sydney Catchment Authority Collaborative Research Scheme. | 06-2003 | 2.5 yrs | $208,000 | Development of SELEX technology. Lloyd, White, Vesey, Rawlinson. | CI-A | ARC Linkage | 01-2002 | 3 yrs | $195,000 | 12 NHMRC Equipment grants from 2001 -2007. White and others | CI | NHMRC Equipment Grants ×12 | 03-2001 | 7 yrs | $270,000 | Fate and transport of surface water pathogens in watersheds. Project 2694. Ashbolt, White, Neilan, Deere, Deen, Stevens, Langford. | CI | AWWARF (American Water Works Association Research Foundation) | 03-2001 | 3 yrs | $1,350,000 | Molecular detection of Norwalk-like viruses in environmental samples. White and Rawlinson. | CI-A | Sydney Water | 04-2001 | 1 yr | $10,000 | Molecular biology of TT virus. White and Rawlinson. | CI-A | Small ARC | 01-2000 | 1yr | $10,000 | HCV genotyping. White. | CI-A | Roche diagnostics | 04-1998 | 1yr | $24,000 | Origins of gene cassettes. White. | CI-A | Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellowship | 04-1996 | 1yr | $35,000 | Grant Funding Bodies -Substudies | | | | | | Neutralizing antibody response in HCV infected people. White. Substudy, funded through NHMRC grant. | CI-A | NHMRC | 03-2007 | 1 yr | $25,000 | White, Oon, Kim, Micallef and Dore. Viral diversity in HCV patients with newly acquired infection. Substudy, funded through US NIH grant. | CI-A | US-NIH -NIDA. | 01-2005 | 2 yr | $51,000 | UNSW Research Funding | | | | | | Norovirus infection in the Australian Population. White, Hansman, McIver and Rawlinson. | CI-A | UNSW Goldstar award. (NHMRC near miss) | 01-2008 | 1 yr | $40,000 | The UNSW Hepatitis C Vaccine Initiative. Lloyd, Dore, Kaldor, White, Rawlinson, Maher, Dolan, Treloar, Zekry. | CI | UNSW Strategic Priorities Fund | 04-2007 | 3 yrs | $2,790,000 | Viral polymerases and genetic variation. White, Scott, Rawlinson. | CI-A | UNSW Goldstar Award. (ARC near miss) | 01-2007 | 1 yr | $40,000 | Cell culture and Bioproduction Facility. Dawes, Brown, Yang, Murray, Mitchell, Lan, White, Ballard, Curmi & Doran | CI | UNSW. Major Equipment & Infrastructure scheme (MREII scheme). | 01-2007 | 1 yr | $139,000 | Genetic variation of epidemic norovirus. White | CI-A | UNSW Faculty Research Grant | 01-2007 | 1 yr | $10,000 | Genetic linkage between aminoglycoside and extended-spectrum cephalosporin resistance in nosocomial infections. White | CI-A | UNSW Faculty Research Grant | 01-2006 | 1 yr | $11,000 | Resistance mechanisms in ESBL producing Klebsiella pneumoniae. White, Kim. | CI-A | UNSW Faculty Research Grant | 01-2005 | 1 yr | $13,000 | The RNA dependent RNA polymerase of HCV is the key to persistent infection. White. | CI-A | UNSW Goldstar award. (NHMRC near miss) | 01-2004 | 1 yr | $30,000 | Characterisation of the RdRp from genotype 3a of HCV. White. | CI-A | UNSW Faculty Research Grant | 01-2004 | 1 yr | $16,000 | The role of the RdRp in chronic HCV infection. White. | CI-A | UNSW Faculty Research Grant | 01-2003 | 1 yr | $16,000 |
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