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ProfKen Rodgers

Visiting Professor

School of Life Sciences

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    School of Life Sciences
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FUNDED RESEARCH

Cyanobacterial toxins

Environmental risk factors for neurodegenerative diseases

Neurodegeneration

Protein synthesis

Ageing

Lysosomes

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Azetidine-2-carboxylic acid - a plant-derived non-protein amino acid as a novel environmental risk factor for MS
    MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH AUSTRALIA LIMITED1 Oct 2021 - 30 Sep 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Castorina A,
    • Piper J,
    • Thomas Broome S,
    • Rodgers K,
    • Violi J
    MS Research Australia- Incubator Grant - (211-0000000079)
  • GRANT
    Risks from blue-green algal blooms; monitoring emerging neurotoxins
    Ian Potter Foundation23 Sep 2019 - 31 Dec 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    Ian Potter Foundation - Small Science Grant
  • GRANT
    Biomagnification of BMAA in the environment: development of new detection tools, determination of exposure routes and neurotoxic mechanisms.
    Australian Research Council15 Mar 2016 - 31 Dec 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Rodgers K,
    • Guillemin G,
    • Cox P,
    • Bowling L,
    • Iqbal K
    ARC Discovery Projects - (DP160105005)
  • GRANT
    Identification of environmental risk factors for sporadic motor neurone disease in Australia
    Motor Neurone Disease Research Institute of Australia1 Feb 2016 - 30 Jun 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Rodgers K
    Motor Neurone Disease Research Institute of Australia - Motor Neurone Disease Research Grants - (GIA1644)
  • GRANT
    Studies Investigating the non-protein amino acid BMAA, as an environmental trigger for motor neurone disease
    Motor Neurone Disease Research Institute of Australia3 Feb 2014 - 2 Jan 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    • Rodgers K,
    • Dunlop R
    Motor Neurone Disease Research Institute of Australia - Motor Neurone Disease Research Grants - (GIA1431) motor neurone disease BMAA neurotoxicity
  • GRANT
    L-Tyrosine Protects Against Levodopa Toxicity
    University of Technology Sydney1 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    • Rodgers K
    UTS ECR Research Capabilities Development Initiative
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    BMAA Research
    The Institute For Ethnomedicine20 Apr 2012 - 20 Apr 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    • Rodgers K
    Institute For Ethnomedicine