Bond Urology Group

Mission

To enhance our knowledge of the lower urinary tract with the aim of developing new treatments or enhancing current treatments of the following conditions:

• Neurogenic and idiopathic overactive bladder
• Cancers of the lower urinary tract
• Stress incontinence
• Benign prostatic hyperplasia
• Interstitial cystitis
• Erectile dysfunction

Academic Staff

• Professor Russ Chess-Williams (Pharmacologist)
Research interest: Drug development for overactive bladder, stress incontinence, benign prostatic hyperplasia, Erectile dysfunction & bladder carcinoma
 
• Associate Professor Malcolm Fraser (Clinical Urogynaecologist)
Research interest: Treatment of the idiopathic overactive bladder
 
• Dr Natasha Hausman (Biomedical Scientist)
Research interest: ATP receptors and bladder function
 
• Assistant Professor Peter Johnson (Pharmacologist)
Research interest: Actions of drugs and natural products on bladder function
 
• Associate Professor Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik (Immunologist)
Research interest: Cystitis and inflammatory bladder diseases
 
• Assistant Professor Catherine McDermott (Toxicologist)
Research interests: Actions of cytotoxic drugs and their metabolites on bladder function
 
• Assistant Professor Anna Salinas (Biochemist)
Research interest: Molecular modelling of uroplakins
 
• Associate Professor Donna Sellers (Cell Biologist)
Research interest: Overactive bladder and diabetes
 
• Assistant Professor Lotti Tajouri (Molecular Biologist)
Research interests: Molecular biology of bladder receptors and ion channels
 
• Professor Patrick Warnke (Surgeon)
Research interest: Stem cells and the treatment of stress incontinence
 
• Professor Gordon Wright (Clinical Pathologist)
Research interest: Lower urinary tract pathology particularly urothelial carcinoma

Research Students

• Christian Moro (PhD)
• Luke Grundy (PhD)
• Helenne Nyamwaro (PhD - UK based)
• Nadine Rizkallah (Hons)
• Caitlin Milligan (MBBS)
• Sharni Hardcastle (Biomed Sci)

Collaborators

• Professor Liz Burcher (University of New South Wales)
• Professor Dave Grundy (University of Sheffield, UK)
• Associate Professor Kate Moore (St George’s Hospital, Sydney)
• Assistant Professor Kylie Mansfield (University of Woolongong)
• Dr Karen Kerr (University of Newcastle)
• Professor Christopher Chapple, (Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK)
• Dr Neil McKay, Dr Kim Lawson (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)

 Current Research Funding

• NHMRC
$434,800 - Chess-Williams, Burcher, Moore, Mansfield, 2009-2012
“Non-neuronal ATP: regulation of release and action in the bladder”
 
• Pfizer Overactive Bladder Competitive Grant Program
$85,000 - Chess-Williams, 2008-2010
“Muscarinic receptor mediated release of nitric oxide, its effect on urothelial spontaneous activity and role in the idiopathic overactive bladder”
 
• European Commission Framework 7 - Marie Curie Initial Training Networks
$5.5million - 11 European centres – Sheffield Hallam University centre 2 - Sellers, McKay & Grundy, 2010-2014
“TRaining for Urology Scientists to develop new Treatments (TRUST)”
 
• Pfizer Investigator Initiated Research (IIR) Program
$95,000 - Collins, Sellers, McKay, Grundy, Chapple, 2009-2010
“Antimuscarinics: effects on mucosal-afferent signalling pathways?”
 

Prizes & Awards

• Best Student Presentation, National Symposium on Advances in Gastrointestinal and Urogenital Research (Christian Moro, 2010).
• Queensland Smart Futures Scholarship (Christian Moro, 2010)
• RCPA (Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia) Scholarship in Pathology (Caitlin Milligan, 2009)
• EAU Best Poster Prize, European Association Urology Stockholm meeting, (Donna Sellers, 2009)
• AUA Best Poster Prize, American Urological Association Chicago meeting (Donna Sellers, 2009)
• Best Scientific Paper published in “European Urology” (IF7.7), European Association Urology Prize awarded to Donna Sellers (2007)
• EAU Best Poster Prize, European Urology Association Berlin meeting (Russ Chess-Williams, 2007)

Editorial Boards

• Frontiers in Pharmacotherapy of Urogenital Disorders (D. Sellers)
• Frontiers in Pharmacology (R. Chess-Williams)
• Journal of Autonomic & Autocoid Pharmacology (R. Chess-Williams)
• Journal of Pharmacological & Toxicological Methods (D. Sellers)
• Naunyn Schmeidebergs Archives of Pharmacology (R. Chess-Williams)