2022/23 WA Child Research Fund recipients
2022/23 WA Child Research Fund recipients
The co-funded State Government and Channel 7 Telethon Trust WA Child Research Fund (WACRF) call for applications closed in May 2023 and generated a great amount of interest resulting in the submission of 69 applications for the program.
Following a competitive review process, more than $6.5 million was awarded for eleven projects with grants ranging between $500,000 and $600,000.
The activity leads and associated activity titles are listed below, along with the responsible entity.
| Activity lead |
Responsible entity |
Activity title |
|
Professor Elizabeth Davis |
Telethon Kids Institute on behalf of the Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia
|
Early initiation of hybrid closed loop therapy in children and adolescents with a new diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes: implementing and evaluating a new model of care |
|
Associate Professor Alma Fulurija |
Telethon Kids Institute on behalf of the Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia |
Profiling the immune response to Strep A infection to design better vaccines for RHD prevention |
|
Professor Aleksandra Filipovska
|
Telethon Kids Institute on behalf of the Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia
|
New therapeutics for paediatric metabolic diseases
|
|
Dr Julie Hibbert |
Murdoch University |
Harnessing machine learning and proteomics to develop sepsis point-of-care diagnostics for children |
|
Dr Kevin Looi |
Telethon Kids Institute on behalf of the Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia
|
Administering diferuloylmethane-2 via aerosol nebulization to compromised epithelium (ADVANCE) |
|
Professor Mark Nicol
|
The University of Western Australia
|
Developing next-generation of probiotics to prevent childhood pneumonia |
|
Professor Peter Richmond |
Telethon Kids Institute on behalf of the Centre for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia |
Can one vaccine help another? Enhancing responses to the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Western Australian infants |
|
Clinical Professor Andre Schultz |
Telethon Kids Institute on behalf of the Centre for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia |
A comprehensive approach to finding modifiable risk factors for bronchiectasis in infants with bronchiolitis |
|
Dr Annabel Short |
Telethon Kids Institute on behalf of Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia |
Amplifying the response to radiotherapy for children with aggressive brain cancer |
|
Professor Britta Von Ungern Sternberg |
Telethon Kids Institute on behalf of the Centre for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia |
JELLYFISH (Just eating these little lollies you’ll feel it stops hunger): a randomised controlled trial of pre-procedural chewable product in children undergoing fasting before surgery |
|
Associate Professor Jason Waithman |
The University of Western Australia |
Enhancing adoptive cell therapy protocols to improve childhood and adolescent cancer control |
Last reviewed: 17-10-2023
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