Dr Penelope McNulty has been awarded the Kelly McCann Fellowship to the value of $41,245 pa for three years (2004-2006). This award is in recognition of the efforts of Kelly - a quadriplegic who with her father, Robert, have raised all of the money to fund the Fellowship through their Annual Charity Golf Days.

Dr McNulty works in the laboratory of Dr Vaughan Macefield at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute in Sydney.

The project she is working on involves the use of microelectrodes in peripheral nerves of quadriplegia and quadriplegia sufferers to gain an understanding of the changes on the nervous system following injury.