Grants

2023
$2.99 million. MRFF 2021 Clinical Trials Activity Grant Opportunity. A Randomised Controlled Trial to Assess if the Implementation of an Artificial Intelligence Mammogram Reader Improves Breast Cancer Screening. A/Professor Helen Frazer; A/Professor Michelle Reintals; Professor Gustavo Carneiro; Professor Dennis Petrie; A/Professor Peter Brotchie; Dr Davis McCarthy; Dr Lauren Oakden-Rayner; Professor John Hopper; A/Professor Graham Hepworth; Dr Jocelyn Lippey; Professor Robert Sparrow; Dr Mark Howard.

2022
$630,000. Australian Research Council Discovery Program grant. DP220102952. Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Agriculture: Social and ethical issues. Professor Robert Sparrow; Dr Christopher Degeling; Dr Christopher Mayes.

$117,646. EISAI Investigator Initiated Study Grant. Ethical Impact Assessment of Applying a Machine Learning Model for Medication Selection in Adults with Newly Diagnosed Epilepsy. Professor Robert Sparrow; Professor Patrick Kwan; Dr Mark Howard.

2021
$49,240. Monash University MDFI Seed Grant. Stakeholder perspectives on ML clinical decision support in epilepsy. Kwan, P., Sparrow, R., Braaf, S., Ge, Z., & Foster, E.

2020-2023
$499,417. Australian Government Department of Health grant. Preventing Mitochondrial Disease Using Genomics – Ethical, Social and Legal Aspects. Prof Catherine Mills; Dr Karinne Ludlow; Prof Robert Sparrow; Dr Narelle Warren.

2020
$42,400. Ethics in AI Research Initiative for the Asia Pacific. The Uses and Abuses of Black Box AI in Emergency Medicine. Prof Robert Sparrow; Dr Mark Howard; Joshua Hatherley.

2017-2020
$215,000. Australian Research Council Discovery Program grant. DP170100919. Legal and ethical issues in the inheritable genetic modification of humans. A/Prof Catherine Mills; Dr Karinne Ludlow; Prof Robert Sparrow; Dr Narelle Warren.

2014-2021
$25 million. ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science . CE140100012. Wallace G, Forsyth M, MacFarlane D, Officer D, Cook M, Dodds S, Spinks G, Alici Gu, Moulton S, in het Panhuis M, Kapsa R, Higgins M, Mozer A, Crook J, Innis P, Coote M, Wang X, Howlett P, Pringle J, Hancock L, Paull B, Spiccia L, Zhang J, Sparrow R, Diamond D, Unwin P, Guldi D, Kim SJ, Watanabe M.

2010-2014
$561,069. Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. FT100100481. A new ethics for the development and application of genetic technologies in a pluralist society.

2006-2009
$440,000. Australian Research Council Discovery Program grant. DP0770545. A study of Australia’s ability to train soldiers to be effective and ethical (Dr Jessica Wolfendale (PI), Dr Rob Sparrow (CI), and Professor Tony Coady(CI)).