Funding to accelerate WA researcher national grant success
A total of $2 million has been awarded to 20 Western Australian researchers to boost their chances of success in future funding rounds.
The Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund’s WA Near Miss Awards (WANMA) Ideas Grants program is designed to support WA researchers who have narrowly missed out on securing a highly competitive National Health Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grants scheme.
WANMA Ideas Grants program provides funding for up to 12 months for recipients to improve areas of their NHMRC application that were identified as being improvable. Recipients will resubmit an enhanced application to the NHMRC, increasing their chances of winning a future grant.
Recipients were assessed based on merit and received a share of a $2 million funding pool.
The WA Near Miss Awards Ideas Grants 2024-25 program recipients are:
|
Recipient |
Responsible Entity |
Activity Title |
Funding Awarded |
|
Dr Jamie Beros |
University of Western Australia |
Myelination and neuronal activity in depression |
$100,000 |
|
Dr Rodrigo Carlessi |
Curtin University |
Novel approaches to predict liver cancer development and track tumour progression for patient stratification and personalised management |
$100,000 |
|
Dr Kai Chen |
University of Western Australia |
From sugar to fat: How does glucose conversion impact bone marrow fat and bone homeostasis? |
$100,000 |
|
Dr Vivian Chua |
Edith cowan University |
Identifying roles of the DDR2 collagen receptor in uveal melanoma
|
$100,000 |
|
Dr Omar Elaskalani |
The Kids Research Institute of Australia |
Age-specific immunotherapy for paediatric cancers |
$100,000 |
|
Dr Zulqarnain Gilani |
Edith cowan University |
Detecting Abdominal Aortic Calcification with Explainable AI: A Framework for Localisation and Interpretability
|
$100,000 |
|
Dr Belinda Guo |
University of Western Australia |
PlateletSeq: a novel blood test to assess cancer status in myeloproliferative neoplasms
|
$100,000 |
|
Dr Le Huong |
The Kids Research Institute of Australia |
INFLUENCE: INcreasing InFLUENza Vaccine Use in Australian Children by Better Understanding Uptake Barriers, Broader Benefits, and Effectiveness of Funded Influenza Vaccination Programs |
$100,000 |
|
Dr Thomas Iosifidis |
The Kids Research Institute of Australia |
Is respiratory morbidity decided before birth: The vulnerable epithelial hypothesis |
$100,000 |
|
Dr Christine Jeffries-Stokes |
University of Western Australia |
The Heavy Metal Tooth Fairy Project |
$100,000 |
|
Dr Tasnuva Kabir |
University of Western Australia |
Novel RNA-based therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma |
$100,000 |
|
Dr Virginie Lam |
Curtin university |
Developing novel interventions for chemotherapy induced cognitive impairment for cancer patients |
$100,000 |
|
Dr Xingang Li |
Edith cowan University |
Deciphering the IgG glycosylation code of Crohn's disease
|
$100,000 |
|
Dr Jessica Mountford |
University of Western Australia |
Investigating the involvement of long-wavelength sensitive opsin haplotypes in the progression of high myopia and exploring mitigation strategies |
$100,000 |
|
Dr Danial Roshandel |
University of Western Australia |
Advancing human stem cell technology to treat corneal blindness |
$100,000 |
|
Dr Saima Safdar |
University of Western Australia |
Advancements in Glioblastoma Management: From Radiomics to Clinical Integration |
$100,000 |
|
Dr Andrew Stevenson |
University of Western Australia |
Developing next generation cell therapies for skin regeneration after injury |
$100,000 |
|
Dr Alex Tang |
University of Western Australia |
Developing the next generation of non-invasive brain stimulation protocols for precision medicine |
$100,000 |
|
Dr Tao Wang |
The Kids Research Institute of Australia |
Discovering Novel Tuneable Immune Adjuvants |
$100,000 |
|
Dr Benjamin Zwick |
University of Western Australia |
Computational biophysics to improve epilepsy presurgical planning: source localisation in a deforming brain |
$100,000 |