Bold Futures - Early Career Medical Research

Dr Kate Firipis

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

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

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

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

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

Dr Vivien Li

Program: Medical

Years: 2025

Grant:

Organisation: The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health

Advancing tolerogenic dendritic cell therapy for multiple sclerosis toward clinical translation.

Dr Ellen Jarred

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

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

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

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

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

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