Chief Investigator: Dr Thomas Goddard Funding Amount: $32,000 Recipient: Women’s and Children’s Health Network Overview: CF is the most common fatal genetic condition in our community. Children die from respiratory
Chief Investigator: Dr Angela Gialamas Funding Amount: $69,574 Recipient: The University of Adelaide Overview: Parents “invest” in their children’s health and development in many ways, but not all parents have
Chief Investigator: Professor Antonio Ferrante Funding Amount: $74,833 Recipient: SA Pathology Overview: Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a life-long disease that usually occurs in childhood. We have been researching a
Chief Investigator: Dr Nicholas Eyre Funding Amount: $71,386 Recipient: The University of Adelaide Overview: The recent outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV) in South America and its association with birth defects
Chief Investigator: Dr Laura Eadie Funding Amount: $75,000 Recipient: SAHMRI Overview: Relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the leading cause of childhood non-traumatic death (15% of T-ALL and 20% of
Chief Investigator: Dr Jillian Carr Funding Amount: $74,027 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: The world was shocked by the threat of Ebola. Now we face the more insidious ZIKV. ZIKV is
Chief Investigator: Dr Michelle Boyle Funding Amount: $72,000 Recipient: Menzies School of Health Research Overview: Malaria caused by Plasmodium results ~ 500,000 deaths annually, the majority children under five years
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Anthea Magarey, Professor Michelle Miller Funding Amount: $75,000 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: Childhood obesity is a global problem with little evidence to inform practice. Our PEACH™
Chief Investigator: Paul Henning Funding Amount: $70,000 Recipient: Women’s and Children’s Health Network Overview: Renal transplantation is the optimum treatment for children with kidney failure. Unfortunately transplant requires lifelong immune
Chief Investigator: Dr Bart Eijkelkamp Funding Amount: $35,000 Recipient: The University of Adelaide Overview: Nearly 2 billion people worldwide have a poor zinc status and in the Western world childhood