Twenty-five outstanding Melbourne mid-career researchers were among the two hundred ARC Future Fellows who will receive up to $135 000 in funding each year for four years.

The University of Melbourne also received the highest funding - $18.2million.

The Future Fellowships were announced today by the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science
and Research, Senator Kim Carr.

At the University of Melbourne, the Future Fellows are from faculties across the University and
will pursue a range of projects, from research into knee osteoarthritis and the benefits of
physiotherapy to work on the uses of alternative fuels in road vehicles.

The success of University researchers in winning Future Fellowships highlights the University's
ongoing commitment to the professional development of its early and mid-career research staff,
and commitment to engaging in research that will have strong community and societal benefits.

The focus of Future Fellow Dr Rachel Caruso's project will be looking at materials for future
energy technologies such as catalysts for fuel synthesis, along with environmental remediation. 

The successful Future Fellows from the University of Melbourne are:

* Dr PJ Anderson, Improving the quality of life of children born very premature

* Dr N Barker, Molecular signals that regulate the regenerative properties of intestinal
epithelial cells

* Professor K Bennell, Knee osteoarthritis: Getting moving with physiotherapy

* Dr MJ Brear, Enabling low greenhouse gas emissions from road vehicles through the
proper use of alternative fuels

* Dr RA Caruso, Engineered materials for future energy technologies

* Dr RR Dagastine, Fundamentals and applications of dynamic interfacial forces in soft
matter

* Dr MR Duckman, Ambient spatial intelligence: Spatial analysis and event detection in
environmental geosensor networks

* Dr RJ Elith, Improved methods for predicting species' distributions under environmental
change

* Dr JD Gehman, Maximizing solid state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) with
maximum entropy

* Dr EL Hartland, The biology, structure and function of bacterial virulence effectors

* Associate Professor M Kelaher, Agreements as a mechanism for community participation
in health policy: Understanding process and evaluating effectiveness

* Dr R Kippen, Epidemics, mortality and longevity in Tasmania, 1838-1930

* Dr TP Lane, The dynamics of deep convective clouds and their role in the climate system

* Associate Professor C Lim, Unified digital networking for wireless and optical access

* Dr A McKendrick, Resolving multi-sensory conflict as we age: audio-visual integration and
the role of normal and abnormal sensory decline

* Dr J Moss, Climate Justice

* Professor D Nesic, Networked control systems: harnessing an emerging technology

* Dr MA Perugini, Molecular evolution of a model oligomeric enzyme from bacterial
extremophiles

* Dr SA Ralph, Transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) synthetases as drug targets in Plasmodium
falciparum

* Dr CA Reid, Understanding the neuronal mechanisms underlying inherited epilepsies

* Dr TA Reuter, Religion and Spirituality in the Contemporary World: An Indonesian Case
Study

* Professor A Scott, Incentives and performance in the health care system

* Dr Y Tan, Real time optimisation by extremum seeking control and learning control

* Dr A Turpin, Smart Algorithms Linking Medical Image Data and Measures of Dysfunction

* Associate Professor B Vo, Optimal Control of Multi-Object System