Innovation Fellowships to upskill WA health and medical innovators

15/05/2025

 

A total of $1,026,981.04 ex GST has been awarded to Western Australian innovators through the Innovation Fellowships 2024-25 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.

Activity lead Responsible entity Activity title Grant amount
 Dr Sandra Agudelo-Romero  University of Western Australia  Innovative Diagnostic Solutions for Viral-Induced Asthma: Towards Timely and Precise Paediatric Care  $130,879.50
 Dr Pramod Dorishetty  Ear Science Institute Australia Incorporated  Fabrication of Tuneable Silk Packing Materials for ENT Clinical Applications  $106,569.42 
 Dr Noor Ul Huda Ghori   University of Western Australia  Development of microbiome-based interventions for improved healing in burn wounds  $111,651.38
 Dr Bozica Kovacevic   Curtin University   Non-Invasive Eye Drops for Age-Related and Diabetes-Induced Eye Diseases   $128,438.21 
 Dr Nipanjana Patra   Pretect Devices Pty Ltd   Technology Optimisation Through Clinical Immersion: Advancing Vedette - A Smart Monitoring Solution for Neonatal Extravasation Injury Prevention   $150,000.00 
 Dr Danuta Sampson   University of Western Australia   OCTAVA – an Open-Source Software Innovation: A Key to Preventing Vascular Blindness due to Diabetes in Western Australia   $144,749.48 
 Dr Elke Seppanen   The Kids Research Institute Australia   Advancing immunoassays for clinical proof-of-concept for a novel nasal spray vaccine.   $127,357.60 
 Dr Shelley Waters   University of Western Australia   The Obesity Off-Switch: Transforming Obesity Treatment   $127,335.45 


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