


Our Grants Make Research Happen
Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation has supported South Australia's world-class medical research and service organisations for 45 years
Research undertaken in community-based studies, clinical studies, and basic science projects in all areas of children’s health, education and welfare are supported, with extra weighting given in the grant review process to the Foundation’s priority areas of child protection, mental health, the effects of obesity and understanding the social determinants of childhood health and development.
Explore Our Recently Funded Projects And The Outcomes Achieved
2021 Research Grants


Defining endotypes in infant bronchiolitis: the first step toward personalised treatment
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Dani Dixon Research Area: Basic Science Funding Year: 2021 Funding Amount: $93,493 Recipient: Flinders University Overview:
What helps young people create healthy relationships and reject domestic violence?
Chief Investigator: Dr Fiona Buchanan Research Area: Improving child protection and its effects. Community Based Study. Funding Year: 2021 Funding
Novel linkage to study childhood disability and the genetic and non-genetic causes of cerebral palsy
Chief Investigator: Dr Jesia Berry Research Area: Improving children’s mental health and the impact of developmental disorders. Community Based Study Funding Year:2020 Research Grants
Early in life outcomes of children of mothers with child protection system involvement. What factors are protective and what factors predict poorer infant outcomes?
Chief Investigator: Professor Leonie Segal Research Area: Improving child protection and its effects. Community Based Study. Funding Year: 2020 FundingThe crossover of children from OOHC into youth justice: identifying opportunities for early intervention
Chief Investigator: Dr Catia Malvaso Research Area: Improving child protection and its effects. Funding Amount: $95,850 Recipient: The University ofEvaluation of ex vivo human CD4 T cell immune response against peanut allergens for a novel therapeutic peanut allergy vaccine
Chief Investigator: Preethi Eldi (Early Career Researcher) Research Area: Food Allergy. Funding Amount: $38,000 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview:Psychiatric medication use in Australian children and adolescents: patterns, predictors and outcomes
Chief Investigator: Julie Klau (Early Career Researcher) Research Area: Mental Health. Funding Amount: $36,000 Recipient: The University of Adelaide Overview:2019 Research Grants
Developing a new therapeutic for childhood acute myeloid leukaemia
Chief Investigator: Dr Mingfeng Yu Research Area: Basic Science Funding Amount: $ 35,000 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview: InA pre-clinical evaluation of an innovative DNA-based vaccination regimen to protect women of childbearing age against Zika virus during sexual transmission
Chief Investigator: Dr Danushka Wijesundara Research Area: Basic Science Funding Amount: $ 74,785 Recipient: The University of Adelaide Overview: SinceFamily by Family: Addressing childhood obesity through local understandings and local solutions
Chief Investigator: Professor Megan Warin Research Area: Reducing childhood obesity and its impactCommunity Based Study Funding Amount: $ 74,517 Recipient: The University2018 Research Grants
A therapeutic for infant acute lung injury: minimising immune-mediated damage to developing lungs during respiratory infection
Chief Investigator: Miss Elena Cavallaro Funding Amount: $34,874 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: Bronchiolitis and pneumonia are leading causes of infantWarming and humidifying inspiratory gases to minimise lung injury during resuscitation of extremely preterm infants.
Chief Investigator: Dr Scott Morris Funding Amount: $31,350 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: Extremely preterm babies have a high risk ofGetting into the Game: Evaluation of advanced movement skills of school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder
Chief Investigator: Ms Kerry Evans Funding Amount: $49,651 Recipient: Novita Children’s Services Overview: Almost half of SA children receiving NDISImpact of Phthalate exposure in fathers on programming of offspring neurological phenotype
Chief Investigator: Professor Sarah Robertson Funding Amount: $73,445 Recipient: University of Adelaide Overview: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex2017 Research Grants
Psychosocial risks during pregnancy: The impact of screening and early referral on child outcomes
Chief Investigator: Dr Jacqui Beall Funding Amount: $73,375 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: The first 1,000 days of a child’s life,2016 Research Grants
On-line and in control: PEACH™ (Parenting, Eating and Activity for Child Health) Lifestyle
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Anthea Magarey, Professor Michelle Miller Funding Amount: $75,000 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: Childhood obesity is aInvestigating causes of congenital heart disease using a mouse model with great artery and cardiac outflow tract defects
Chief Investigator: Dr Sophie Wiszniak Funding Amount: $35,000 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview: Eight babies are born with aPreventing childhood methotrexate chemotherapy-induced bone loss by blocking the aggravated pro-osteoclastogenic cytokine – NF-kB signalling
Chief Investigator: Professor Cory Xian Funding Amount: $75,000 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview: Whilst chemotherapy of major childhood cancersInvestigating how mutations in IQSEC2 cause intellectual disability and severe early onset seizures in children using a mouse modelling the knockout of Iqsec2.
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Cheryl Shoubridge Funding Amount: $65,000 Recipient: The University of Adelaide Overview: Intellectual disability (ID) is frequentWant to Be A Champion of Children's Research? Enquire With Us Today!
Apply for a 2022 Research Grant - NOW OPEN
Submissions for EOI can be made from 24 February 2021 (9.00am ACDT) to 1 April 2021 (6:00pm ACDT).
Each year, our grant program provides funding to support research into all areas of children’s health, education and welfare, and with a particular focus on mental health, obesity, protection and understanding the social determinants of childhood health and development.
Grants may now be awarded up to a maximum of $100,000 per project, or Early Career Grants up to a maximum of $40,000 per project, and may be completed over 1 year or 2 years.

Professor Jozef Gécz
Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation Chair for the Prevention of Childhood Disability
The Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation Chair for the Prevention of Childhood Disability is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary research program focused on defining the origins and early diagnosis of childhood disability. Based in Adelaide and led by International Human Genetics expert, Professor Jozef Gécz, the five-year program was established in 2016 to understand more about the genetic basis of early childhood learning and movement disabilities, intellectual disabilities, early onset epilepsies, and autism.

A BRAND NEW INITIATIVE
CRF Fellowships
A CRF Fellowship presents an exciting opportunity for mid-career researchers to pursue ground-breaking advances into childhood health, education and welfare, in South Australia.
The focus of the CRF Fellowship program is Prevention and/or Management of Childhood Disability and Disease.
Applications have now closed, and we look forward to announcing our inaugural CRF Fellows shortly!