Dr Kate Firipis
Program: Medical
Years: 2025
Grant: $75,000 for 1 year
Organisation: St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research
Incorporating a sensory nerve plexus into a bioengineered human skin flap
Dr Clarissa Whitehead
Program: Medical
Years: 2025
Grant: $75,000 a year for 2 years
Organisation: The MacFarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research
Enhancing the therapeutic potency of next-generation anti-cancer immunotherapies through stellabody FC engineering.
Dr Lewis Fry
Program: Medical
Years: 2025
Grant: $75,000 a year for 2 years
Organisation: Centre for Eye Research Australia
Developing a dual-targeting gene therapy to protect the optic nerve in glaucoma.
Dr Anna Yao Mei Wang
Program: Medical
Years: 2025
Grant: $73,337 for year 1 and $74,749 for year 2
Organisation: Centre for Eye Research Australia
The role of pericytes in retinal ganglion cell dysfunction and vision loss in glaucoma.
Dr Francesca Alves
Program: Medical
Years: 2025
Grant: $74,000 for 1 year
Organisation: The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Dietary influences on brain neurochemistry: the first phosphometabolomics study in Alzheimer’s Disease brains.
Dr Vivien Li
Program: Medical
Years: 2025
Grant: $74,850 a year for 2 years
Organisation: The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Advancing tolerogenic dendritic cell therapy for multiple sclerosis toward clinical translation.
Dr Ellen Jarred
Program: Medical
Years: 2025
Grant: $75,000 a year for 2 years
Organisation: Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Understanding epigenetic mechanisms regulating female reproductive health.
Dr Shouya Feng
Program: Medical
Years: 2025
Grant: $56,998 for year 1 and $74,920 for year 2
Organisation: Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Characterising emerging anti-inflammatory therapies for autoinflammatory diseases.
Dr Shengbo Zhang
Program: Medical
Years: 2025
Grant: $74,983 for year 1 and $74,580 for year 2
Organisation: The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Harnessing the power of dendritic cells to treat intractable solid tumours.
Dr Pooranee Morgan
Program: Medical
Years: 2024
Grant: $75,000 a year for two years
Organisation: Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute
Protecting the killers: Enhancing cancer therapy by modulating the lipid composition of CAR T cell
Dr Kallyanashis Paul
Program: Medical
Years: 2024
Grant: $70,000 a year for two years
Organisation: Hudson Institute of Medical Research
3D bioprinted constructs to aid precision medicine and surgical bone grafting for osteosarcoma in young children and adolescents
Dr Nhi Tran
Program: Medical
Years: 2024
Grant: $74,977 for 1 year
Organisation: Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Improving Respiratory Support Care For Extremely Preterm Infants At Birth