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PROJECTS

Previously and currently funded projects, totaling over $20 million in research income.

COMPETITIVE FUNDING

Adiponectin as a clinical biomarker for laminitis risk

  • de Laat, M., Sillence, M., McGree, J. M., Phillips, M. and Fitzgerald, D.

  • $157,617​

  • 2024 - 2026

  • Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation Inc

Making it personal: Identifying personalised triggers of fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis

  • McDonald, S., Nikles, J., Ioannides, Z. and McGree, J. M.

  • $25,000

  • 2023 - 2025

  • MS Australia

A precision medicine clinical trial platform to BEAT CF

  • Wark, P., Snelling, T., Jaffe, A., Kaiko, G., Waters, S., McGree, J. M. and Schultz, A.

  • $2,107,804

  • 2022 - 2025

  • Medical Research Future Fund

Precision ecology: the modern era of designed experiments in plant ecology

  • McGree, J. M., Firn, J., Seabloom, E. and Borer, E.

  • $360,000​

  • 2020 - 2022

  • Australia Research Council - Discovery project

Repurposing existing medications to reduce severe acute respiratory distress in patients with COVID-19: the CLARITY trial

  • Jardine, M., Burrell, L., Pollock, C., Jenkins, C., Finfer, S., McGree, J. M., Kotwal, S., Ritchie, A. and Makris, A.

  • $1,406,587

  • 2020 - 2022

  • Medical Research Future Fund

Robust design under non-independent error structures

  • McGree, J. M. and Warne, D.

  • $142,000​

  • 2020 - 2022

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Managing complex networks in endangered grasslands to restore food webs

  • Firn, J., McGree, J. M., Clarke, A., Risch, A. and Schuetz, M.

  • $650,000​

  • 2019 - 2023

  • Australia Research Council - Discovery project

Revolutionising water-quality monitoring in the information age

  • Mengersen, K., Hyndman, R., Peterson, E., McGree, J. M., Turner, R., Maxwell, P., Liquet, B. and Jones, J.

  • $696,000​

  • 2019 - 2022

  • Australia Research Council - Linkage project​​​​

Development of non-invasive methods and systems for the assessment of hive health

  • Hauxwell, C., Blackler, T., Evans, L., Mortensen, A., Sainsbury, J, and McGree, J. M.

  • $1,271,000​

  • 2019 - 2023

  • Horticulture Innovation Australia Limited

 

Accelerating precision therapies through digital infrastructure for adaptive trials and trial-ready cohort studies

  • Bellgard, M., Snelling, T., Meleca, A., Cross, M., McGree, J. M., Yates, P., Bonner, A., Alexander, K., Skerman, H. and Franzen, K.

  • $400,000

  • 2018 - 2020

  • MTPConnect

Agri-Intelligence in cotton production systems

  • Payne, A., Peterson, E., Hamilton, G., McGree, J. M., Bednarz, T., Wilson, C. and Grace, P.

  • $516,000

  • 2016 - 2019​

  • Cotton Research and Development Corporation

Sanitation infrastructure for the future

  • Goonetilleke, A., Barnes, P., Hayes, J., McGree, J. M. and Susilawati, C.

  • $160,000

  • 2014 - 2015​

  • Australia-Indonesia Infrastructure Research Awards

Innovating optimal experimental design through Bayesian statistics

  • Pettitt, A. N., McGree, J. M., Woods, D. C., Lewis, S. M. and Friel, N.

  • $270,000

  • 2012 - 2014

  • Australia Research Council - Discovery project

COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE

Foragecaster - Phase 2

  • Nayak, R., McGree, J. M., Sabir, K., Horne, D., Tickle, P., Scarth, P., Waterworth, R., Chen, F., Liu, W., Ramp, D., Lee, T., Corry, P., Ouyang, C., ter Hofstede, A., Woodley, A., Lamb, D., Schaefer, M. and Rootsey, A.

  • With AgriWebb, FlintPro, CiboLabs and The Mullion Group

  • $4,763,999

  • 2023 - 2026

  • Food Agility

Foragecaster - 6 month sprint

  • Nayak, R., McGree, J. M., Corry, P., ter Hofstede, A., Ouyang, C., Horne , D., Sabir, K., Tickle, P., Scarth, P., Waterworth, R., Chen, F., Ramp, D., Lamb, D., Schaefer, M. and Rootsey, A.

  • With AgriWebb

  • $232,177

  • 2023

  • Food Agility

Improving the avocado export supply chain to deliver an Australian premium, and reduce avocado export claims

  • McGree, J. M., Jones, S., Oliver, M., Te Kloot, C., Williams, S., Joyce, D., Campbell, J., Hofman, P., Coates, L., Mazhar, S. and Marques, R.

  • With Costa

  • $251,956

  • 2020 - 2023

  • Food Agility

 

Green beans prediction

  • Corry, P., McGree, J. M., ter Hofstede, A., Wilson, C., Ouyang, C., Carey, D., Woods, A. and Quinn, S.

  • With Mulgowie

  • $606,723

  • 2020 - 2022

  • Food Agility

 

The pandemic imperative: Clinical data and analytics platform to improve clinical outcomes through point-of-care decision support

  • Bellgard, M., McGree, J. M., Snelling, T., Nicholson, A., McNeil, K., Bolevich, Z. and Porter, S.

  • With Queensland Health and NSW Health

  • $980,000

  • 2020 - 2022​

  • Digital Health

Teys critical intervention points for analytics

  • Corry, P., McGree, J. M., Spratt, B., Maguire, T. and Perez, G.

  • With Teys

  • $39,748

  • 2019​

  • Food Agility

 

Financial and environmental benchmarking to improve access to finance

  • Nayak, R., McGree, J. M. and Longbottom, M.

  • With Australian Wine Research Institute

  • $91,999

  • 2018 - 2019​

  • Food Agility

 

Utilisation of Spatial Cancer Models: A National Cancer Atlas

  • Mengersen, K., Baade, P., Cramb, S., Moraga, P., Burrage, P., McGree, J. M., Roberts, J., White, N., Aitken, J. and Bain, S.

  • $384,081 + ​$50,000 + $100,000

  • 2016 - 2018

  • Spatial information - 2


Integrated Mining Project

  • Kozan, E., Thompson, H., McGree, J. M. and Neville, M.

  • $625,843

  • 2012 - 2016

  • Optimising Resource Extraction​

Spatial-temporal Modelling of Cancer Incidence, Survival and Mortality

  • Mengersen, K., Turrell, G., McGree, J. M., ​Kernich, G.

  • $499,982

  • 2011 - 2015

  • Spatial information - 2

OTHER FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

Services to support the University of Sydney deliver adaptive clinical trials

  • McGree, J. M.

  • $100,000

  • 2023 - 2025

  • University of Sydney

 

Data driven clinical research innovation hub

  • Mengersen, K., McGree, J. M., Perrin, D., Bellgard, M., McPhail, S., Wood, R., Hocking, J., Steele, D., Powell, M., Garling, E., McNeil, K., Wong, I., Crawford, R., Sullivan, C. and Guido, Z.
  • $572,366

  • 2022 - 2023

  • Stryker

 

Modelling reef recovery for dynamic environmental management of the Great Barrier Reef

  • McGree, J. M., Warne, D. and Ortiz, J.

  • $350,000

  • 2021 - 2023

  • Australian Institute of Marine Science and QUT's Centre for Data Science

 

Supporting traditional owner marine monitoring through two-way knowledge sharing

  • Warne, D., Vercelloni, J., McGree, J. M., Ortiz, J., Gonzalez-Rivero, M. and Wyatt, M.

  • $25,000

  • 2021 - 2022

  • ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers

 

Estimating waterway usage and vessel speed on Gold Coast waterways

  • McGree, J. M., Corry, P., Miska, M., Lamari, F., Fookes, C., Denman, S. and Brown, R.

  • $129,173

  • 2020 - 2021

  • Gold Coast Waterways Authority

 

Effective monitoring of submerged shoals off the coast of Western Australia

  • McGree, J. M. and Peterson, E.

  • $60,000

  • 2019 - 2022

  • Australian Institute of Marine Science

Uncertainty in load project

  • Peterson, E., Leigh, C., Mengersen, K., McGree, J. M., Strauss, J., Neelamraju, C., Turner, R. and Mann, R.

  • $62,000

  • 2019 - 2020

  • Department of Environment and Science

Developing statistical machine learning capabilities with the Australian Bureau of Statistics

  • McGree, J. M. and Mengersen, K.

  • $238,530

  • 2018 - 2019

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics

 

Longitudinal Benefits & Impacts Study on Queen's Wharf Brisbane Development - Phase 2

  • Mengersen, K., McGree, J. M., Moyle, C., Scott, J., Cross, C., Chataway, M., Beatson, A., Mathews, S., Corry, P., Miska, M. and Winter, G.

  • $536,650

  • 2018 - 2019

  • Department of Innovation, Tourism Industry Development and the Commonwealth Games

 

A series of N-of-1 trials to determine the effectiveness of Celloid Mineral Therapy for migraines

  • McGree, J. M.
  • $10,000

  • 2018 - 2020

  • Oliver Nutrition Pty Ltd

Statistical analysis for a series of N-of-1 trials of melatonin for insomnia in children with ADHD on stimulants

  • McGree, J. M.

  • $20,000

  • 2018 - 2020

  • University of Queensland

Innovation for data analytics and workflows

  • Harch, B., Mengersen, K., Peterson, E., Wynn, M., Dimech, S., Liquet, B. and McGree, J. M.

  • $240,000

  • 2017 - 2018

  • Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation

Australian beef cattle digital supply chain – Proof of concept

  • Corry, P., McGree, J. M., Helmstedt, K., Mengersen, K., Katter, R., Foley, L. and Tonkin, Z.

  • ​$125,000

  • 2017 - 2018

  • Ernst and Young

Pilot Study into data validity for beach amenity assessment

  • Mcfadyen, A., McCue, S., McGree, J. M., Drovandi, C., Gibbs, M. and  Bowra, K.

  • $15,000

  • 2017

  • New South Wales Department of Industry 

Improving our predictive capabilities of stream health

  • Peterson, E., McGree, J. M., Harch, B. and Pearce, A.

  • ​$150,000

  • 2016 - 2019

  • Healthy Land & Water

Data analytics and app technology to guide on-farm irrigation

  • Perez, T., Devitt, K., McGree, J. M., Harch, B. and Rutherford, C.

  • $222,000

  • 2016 - 2017

  • The Yield

Adaptive design for marine monitoring

  • McGree, J. M., Drovandi, C., Peterson, E. and Thilan, P.

  • $60,000

  • 2016 - 2020

  • Australian Institute of Marine Sciences

 

Case studies on peel strength

  • McGree, J. M. and Wilkinson, S.

  • $19,000

  • 2015

  • Cook Medical

Using N-of-1 trials to identify responders to melatonin for sleep disturbance in Parkinson’s disease

  • Nikles, J., O’Sullivan, J., Mitchell, G., McGree, J. M., Mantovani, S., Ritchie, A., Smith, S. and Senior, H.

  • $244,000

  • 2015 - 2017

  • Wesley Medical Research Centre

Model-based adaptive monitoring: Improving the effectiveness of reef monitoring

  • Mengersen, K., McGree, J. M., Drovandi, C. C. and Caley, J.

  • $100,000

  • 2014

  • Australian Institute of Marine Science

 

Recurrence of equine endocrinopathic laminitis: incidence and risk factors

  • de Laat, M., Sillence, M., McGree, J. M. and Reiche, D.
  • $275,000

  • 2013 - 2016

  • Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH​

Review of performance of Holcim jellyfish filter in SEQ and MacKay conditions

  • Goonetileke, A., Egodawatta, P. and McGree, J. M.

  • $49,000 + $22,000

  • 2013

  • Holcim Pty Ltd

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