Strong foundations for health and medical researchers and innovators
11/09/2025
A total of $4,739,553 has been awarded to five Western Australian researchers to increase the scale and excellence of health and medical research and innovation in Western Australia by supporting local infrastructure.
The Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund’s Enabling Scheme provides capital infrastructure support of between $500,000 and $1.5 million for up to 3 years for WA researchers and innovators to co-fund upgrades to laboratories or facilities, upgrade major equipment, or purchase new equipment used for health and medical research or innovation, to increase the industry offering.
Recipients were assessed based on merit by an independent assessment panel.
The FHRI Fund Enabling Scheme recipients are shown below:
| Recipient | Responsible entity | Activity title | Funding awarded |
| Professor Girish Dwivedi | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research | Transforming medical discovery: next-generation high-performance computing infrastructure for accelerated translational research | $536,153 |
| Adj A/Professor Belinda Hales | University of Western Australia | Replacement of laboratory sterilisation equipment for paediatric research | $1,250,000 |
| Professor Sulev Koks | Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science | High performance computing-enabled nanopore sequencing platform to accelerate personalised research for genomic drug development | $703,400 |
| Professor Kevin Pfleger | University of Western Australia | Westside collaboration space | $1,000,000 |
| Clin/Professor Rajesh Thomas | North Metropolitan Health Service | Establishing the first integrated clinical, research and training program in robotic bronchoscopy in Western Australia for patients with lung cancer | $1,250,000 |
Last Updated:
03/11/2025