Melbourne-led health projects awarded $17m from Medical Research Future Fund
Twelve University of Melbourne-led projects were awarded over $17m in Medical Research Future Fund funding announced 13 February 2024.
Twelve University of Melbourne-led projects were awarded over $17m in Medical Research Future Fund funding announced 13 February 2024.
Clinician researchers: Applied research in health
- Dr Felix Ng, $1,468,400: Bridging the urban and regional divide in stroke care (BUILDS): A national tele-stroke unit and inpatient service for remote and rural Australia.
- Associate Professor Caroline Johnson, $1,220,721: Link-me plus: A study to optimise and implement link-me care navigation into primary care general practice.
- Professor Ingrid Scheffer, $1,461,993: Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies.
Early to mid-career researchers
- Dr Antoinette Poulton, $488,637: Reducing alcohol intake and harm through individualised feedback.
- Dr Laura Ellett, $702,151: Tracking retinal biomarkers throughout prodromal and symptomatic prion disease.
- Professor Cath Chamberlain, $4,999,953: Relighting the firesticks: Implementing foundations for a healthy life for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families.
- Dr Laura Hardefeldt, $794,587: COMet AMS: Constructing One Health metrics for evaluating antimicrobial stewardship.
International clinical trial collaborations
- Professor Martha Hickey, $2,023,568: Salpingectomy with delayed oophorectomy to prevent ovarian cancer (TUBA WISP II).
Chronic respiratory conditions
- Professor Jo Douglass, $1,999,052: Creating a risk assessment biomarker tool to prevent seasonal allergic and thunderstorm asthma – CARISTA.
Maternal health and healthy lifestyles
- Professor Alicia Spittle, $1,189,266: Active-prem: Enhancing exercise participation in early childhood for children born very preterm.
Consumer-led research
- Associate Professor Dominika Kwasnicka, $999,789: ConnectUp: Citizen science informed online platform to increase social connection, physical health, and mental wellbeing in people with disability and their carers.
- Dr Caitlin Hitchcock, $599,820: Left write hook: A survivor-led program to empower adult survivors of child sexual abuse.
Professor Jane Gunn AO, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, welcomed the latest funding announcement.
“I'm delighted that the MRRF funding will support essential work to improve the health of children, improve access to stroke care and build the vital knowledge to treat chronic diseases.”