Collaborative Seed Grant Recipients
Our Collaborative Seed Grant Scheme provides Early and Mid-Career Researchers (EMCRs) at 91É«ÇéƬ opportunities to lead innovative projects. Funded by 91É«ÇéƬ Medicine & Health, our grants foster cross-disciplinary collaborations to produce high-quality research and clinical outcomes. Successful projects enhance competitiveness for external grant funding and serve as a pathway to more ambitious projects.
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Recipients
Affiliation
Grant Title
Dr Alexander Underwood The Kirby Institute Exploring mimicry between Envelope-2 glycoprotein and Immunoglobulin-Fc as potential drivers of the pathogenesis in hepatitis C virus-induced cryoglobulinemia Dr Allison Carter The Kirby Institute Pilot evaluation of a complex intervention to improve vaccine uptake in adolescents with disability DrÌýCarolyn Mazariego School of Population Health A Human-Centred Implementation approach to advance Artificial Intelligence integration in cancer supportive careÌý Dr Evan B Cunningham The Kirby Institute A peer-driven intervention to enhance hepatitis C testing and linkage to care among people who inject drugs: The CONNECT Study Dr Gregory Walker School of Biomedical Sciences Defining early life viral infections associated with coeliac disease Dr Juliana de Oliveira Costa School of Population Health More medicine, less cost: Understanding the impact of Australia's 60 day dispensing policy for people with cardiometabolic disease Dr Lucy McGrath-Cadell Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute New diagnostic tool to predict the development of spontaneous coronary artery dissection Dr Matthew Joseph Lennon School of Clinical Medicine Emulated target trials for dementia prevention using national level Australian Data Assets Dr Qinglu Cheng The Kirby Institute Cost-effectiveness of triplex testing in Indonesia Dr Shyam Sunder Tummanapalli School of Optometry and Vision Science Tear fluid α-Synuclein and Substance P as candidate biomarkers for Parkinson's disease -
Recipients
Theme
Affiliation
Grant Title
Dr Zien Zhou
Dr Menglu Ouyang
Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine The George Institute for Global Health The willingness to accept brain imaging evaluation for the optimisation of anticoagulation management among people with atrial fibrillation and low-to-intermediate stroke risk. Dr Aaminah Khan
Dr Vikram Tallapragada
Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine Childrens Cancer Institute & Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute Balancing Efficacy and Safety: Modulating Polyamine Inhibition to Reduce Cardiotoxicity in Paediatric Oncology. A/Prof Clare Arnott
Dr Nila Dharan
Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine The George Institute for Global HealthÌý&Ìý
Kirby Institute
OPTIMAR-Heart Study: Assessing the impact of SGLT2 inhibitors on epicardial adipose tissue in HIV positive patients on integrase-based anti-retroviral therapies. A/Prof Izzy Jayasinghe
Dr Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan
Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine School of Biomedical Sciences Unmasking and targeting the structural and molecular drivers of heterogeneity in the failing heart. Dr Katrina Kissock
Dr Kathy Trieu
Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine The George Institute for Global Health Integrating potassium-enriched salt into usual healthcare practice for hypertension management in Australia. Ms Martina Beretta
Dr Brenna Osborne
Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine BABS Investigating the efficacy of mitochondrial uncoupler BAM15 in promoting neuronal resistance to metabolic and oxidative stress in ischemic conditions. Dr Yunjia (Carmen) Zhang
Dr Jingjing Li
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Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine School of Biomedical Sciences & School of Biomedical Engineering A novel strategy for preventing heart failure in myocardial infarction survivors. Dr Marianne Martinello Triple IÌý Kirby Institute/POWH People with injecting related infections: Assessing Treatment outcomes for those who are Hospitalised (PATH). Dr Parvathy Rajan Triple I SoCM (Liverpool) Alcoholic chronic pancreatitis – the role of ER stress and autophagy in driving PSC-macrophage interactions. Dr Md Saiful Islam Triple I School of Population Health Wastewater-based surveillance for rapid detection and informed response to Monkeypox virus in New South Wales, Australia Dr Stefan Michalsk Health Systems Reseasrch National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health (NCEIDH). Evaluating the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality for Preparing People with Intellectual Disability for Healthcare Systems Dr David Goodman Health Systems Reseasrch Kirby Institute Feasibility of a pilot one-stop test and treat intervention to increase hepatitis C treatment uptake within the Australian National HCV Point of Care Testing Program. Dr Sarah Ellis Health Systems Reseasrch SoCM Dspln Paed & Child Health Delivering Equitable Psychosocial Care in Paediatric Oncology: Co-designing Consumer.Ìý
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Clinician Resources to Identify and Respond to PROMs for Implementation.
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Dr Vikneswary (Vicky) Batumalai
Health Systems Reseasrch The George Institute for Global Health Identifying factors driving disparities in lung cancer care and outcomes among CALD populations to inform recommendations for improving access to lung cancer screening. Dr Gemma Sicouri Neuroscience, Mental Health & Addiction Black Dog Institute Codesigning and integrating a digital parent-led intervention for child anxiety in hospitals: An exploratory study. Dr Peter Brown Neuroscience, Mental Health & Addiction School of Biomedical Engineering Unifying digital health self-management tools for adults living with severe mental illness: A novel approach to enable lifestyle behaviour change. Dr Jun Cao Neuroscience, Mental Health & Addiction NeuRA Tissue conductivity imaging as an efficient substitute for FDG-PET. Dr Felix Aplin Neuroscience, Mental Health & Addiction School of Biomedical Sciences Measuring chemosensitivity to predict pathophysiology in respiratory disorders. Amy Logan Cancer Childrens Cancer Institute Tumour-targeted siRNA conjugates for therapeutic gene silencing in brain cancer. Marjan Naeini Cancer Garvan Institute Investigating Genomic and Epigenomic Drivers of Chemotherapy Resistance in Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma: A Pilot Study Using Nanopore Sequencing. Venessa Chin Cancer Garvan Institute Unravelling Genomic Diversity in ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Insights from Paired RNA/DNA Sequencing of Circulating Tumour Cells. Ìý
Shannon Chiang
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Cancer School of Biomedical Sciences Pre-clinical development of a novel RNA-based therapy for pancreatic cancer. Ìý
S M Zahid Hosen
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Cancer Ingham Institute Mapping Metabolic Dysregulation in Pancreatic Stellate: Implications for Tumour Growth and Immune Evasion in Pancreatic Cancer
Neuroscience, Mental Health & Addiction
Research Development ManagerÌýneuro.mentalhealth.addiction@unsw.edu.au