Innovation Fellowships to upskill WA health and medical innovators

25/10/2024

A total of $1,063,587 ex GST has been awarded to Western Australian innovators through the Innovation Fellowships 2024 program.

This program provides Fellowships to talented Western Australians to enable them to develop innovative early-stage processes, products and/or services that address a problem that arises from an unmet health or medical need or opportunity in Western Australia.

The program is funded by the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund which provides a secure source of funding to drive health and medical research, innovation and commercialisation.

Eight Fellowships have been awarded as outlined in the table below.

Innovation Fellow Responsible Entity Activity Title Funding Awarded
Dr Hadi Afsharan The University of Western  Australia Screen for heart disease without bother. $122,892
Dr Christofer Bester Ear Science Institute Australia Precision Diagnostics in Cochlear Implant Recipients – understanding the healing process. $137,872
Dr Vanessa Fear  The Kids Research Institute Unravelling the Functional Significance of Novel Genetic Variants Identified in the Clinical Setting. $131,033
Dr Mariana Lizeth Orozco Morales The Kids Research Institute on behalf of UWA Boosting the immune system to eliminate cancer cells: A new therapeutic approach. $115,339
Dr Ianthe Pitout Murdoch University Initial studies of how well a potential new drug for treating motor neuron disease gets to where it needs to act in a living system, and to learn how this distribution affects safety and effectiveness. $145,451
Dr Fillippo Valente Ear Science Institute Australia Preparations for Manufacturing and Clinical Trials of ClearDrum: Pioneering the First Tympanic Membrane Prosthetic Device. $143,316
Dr Tao Wang The Kids Research Institute on behalf of UWA Developing RNA-based immune adjuvants for efficient cancer immunotherapy. $117,684
Dr Bu Yeap The University of Western Australia Developing a new treatment for obesity, diabetes and frailty. $150,000

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