MRFF Funding Success for SCHN researchers

Kids Research, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network is happy to announce the success of our researchers in the latest Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) round. A total of approximately more than $20M funding has been awarded to 8 new paediatric health and medical research projects.

• A/Prof David Ziegler (UNSW), Prof Stefan Pfister, Prof Claire Wakefield, Prof Olaf Witt, Dr Dong-Anh Khuong-Quang - $1,128,498

LOGGIC: A phase III, randomised international multi-centre trial for Low Grade Glioma In Children and adolescents

• Dr Geoff McCowage (Monash) - $761,210

The TiNT Trial: A phase II clinical trial of trametinib in paediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 associated progressive optic pathway gliomas

• Prof David Winlaw (USYD), Prof Fariba Dehghani, Prof David Fletcher, Dr Steve Wise, A/Prof Gary Sholler, Dr Julian Ayer - $2,081,761

Personalised Pulmonary Valved Conduits: reducing re-operations in Congenital Heart Disease

• Dr Rachael Cordina, Dr Julian Ayer (USYD) - $3,328,569

Congenital Heart Fitness Intervention Trial (CH-FIT)

• Prof David Celermajer (USYD) - $3,994,175

An Australian Study of the Outcomes and Burden of Congenital Heart Disease

• A/Prof Luregn Schlapbach (UQ), Dr Marino Festa, Prof David Winlaw, Prof Nadia Badawi (USYD) A/Prof Warwick Butt, Prof Yves D’Udekem, Prof Steve Horton, Prof Vicki Anderson, A/Prof Andreas Schibler, Debbie Long, Dr Nelson Alphonso, Dr Simon Erickson, Dr David Andrews, Dr Deanne Yim, Dr Carmela Pestell, Dr John Beca, Dr Kirsten Finucane, Dr Kathryn Murrell - $3,133,858

Gene Expression to Predict Long-Term Outcome in Infants After Heart Surgery

• Prof Steven McPhail (QUT), A/Prof Gary Sholler, A/Prof Nadine Kasparian (USYD) -  $2,997,256

CHD LIFE+ family-centered care models supporting long-term neurodevelopment

• A/Prof Hasantha Gunasekera (USYD), Darryl Wright, A/Prof Susan Woolfenden, Sandra Bailey, Dr Kathleen Falster, Prof Emily Banks, Prof Jonathan Craig, Prof Juanita Sherwood, Prof Armando Teixeira-Pinto – $887,186

ACCESS: Aboriginal Community Controlled Ear health Support Systems: developing, embedding and evaluating best practice models of care

• A/Prof Zornitza Stark (MCRI), Dr Seb Lunke, Dr Sarah Sandaradura, Dr Bruce Bennetts, Dr Jason Pinner, Dr Mary-Louise Freckmann, Dr Himanshu Goel, A/Prof Meredith Wilson  - $4,800,000 

​Acute Care Genomics- a national rapid genomic diagnosis program for critically ill children