With expertise in blood compatibility testing, my team regularly consults to medical device companies providing bespoke services developing infrastructure and testing: heart valves, ventricular assist devices, total artificial hearts, and point-of-care blood diagnostic devices.
Diabetes Australia ($39,436): Kuck L., McNamee A., Peart J., Griffith T., Simmonds M. "Red blood cells the forgotten players driving cardiovascular complications in type 2 diabetes". 2025
ARC DECRA – DE240100236 ($463,583 ARC; $296,242 GU): McNamee A. “Designing and fabricating artificial blood cells for global shortages”. 2023
ARC Discovery – DP230100556 ($407,907): An H., Simmonds M., McNamee A. “Resolving surface nanobubbles as cavitation nuclei”. 2022
Health Group Seed Grant Scheme ($35,600): McNamee A., Simmonds M., An H., Zhang J., Semenzin C., Pauls J., Nguyen N. “Understanding cavitation in medical devices: a novel approach to enhance prosthetic heart valves.” 2022
Griffith Sciences Equipment Scheme ($90,000): Li H., McNamee A., Sun S., Zhang J., Kashaninejad N., Semenzin C., Smith D., Dao D., Feih S., Zhang S. "A set of 3D Laser Scanning Microscope System". 2022.
Griffith University Research Infrastructure Investment Scheme ($75,741): Simmonds M., Peart J., Feih S., Kundur A., McNamee A. “Core equipment for blood mechanical assessments to support HDR research, NCG and CCR projects, and future transdisciplinary projects”. 2022.
Collaborative Interdisciplinary Grants Scheme ($45,000): McNamee A., Simmonds M., Zhang J., Nguyen N., Pauls J., Tansley G., Pattullo S., Drew J. “Developing a team to design and produce point-of-care devices: a pilot study to quantify blood quality in cardiac theatre.” 2021
Griffith University Post-doctoral Fellowship ($254,424): McNamee A. Benchtop theatre: “Developing new clinical guidelines for 'best-practice' acute and chronic heart-lung mechanical support.” 2020
The Medical Advances Without Animals (MAWA) Trust ($30,000): McNamee A., Simmonds M., Tansley G., Pauls J. “Eliminating animal blood products from the development of artificial organs: building evidence for an optimal international standard.” 2020.
The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation Innovation Grant ($49,040): Simmonds M., Pauls J., Chan C., Tansley G., McNamee A. “Optimising mechanical circulatory support: improved human compatibility of medical devices through minimisation of animal testing”. 2019.
The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation New Investigator Grant ($9,987.33): McNamee A., “Could sublethal blood damage explain the deleterious outcomes from artificial organs?” 2019.
Hamilton company syringe grant ($1,000 USD): McNamee A., “Inspecting Erythrocyte Physiology to Uncover Novel Biochemical and Physical Properties of Blood Cells”. 2018.
Gold Coast Health & Gold Coast Hospital Foundation Research Grant ($16,725): Simmonds M., Winearls J., Tansley G., Moore J., Provenzano S., McNamee A. “Combined mechanical and oxidative stresses during cardiopulmonary bypass: defining the role of altered blood rheology on microcirculatory function”. 2017.
Heart Mind Body Project Support Grant ($7,348): Simmonds M., Winearls J., Tansley G., McNamee A., Moore J., Provenzano S., “Form and function: how mechanical and oxidative stresses alter the formed elements of blood during cardiopulmonary bypass”: Investigating blood trauma and microcirculatory function with CPB.
Health Group Postgraduate Top-up Scholarship ($30,000): Scholarship provided to the top ranked applicant within Griffith Health.
