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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.

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2021

2021 Research Grants

2020

2020 Research Grants

2020 Research Grant

“Switching ON Participation” : Evaluation of the measurement properties of the Switch Access Measure (SAM-2) and its potential as a clinically-informative outcome assessment for children who have complex physical disabilities.

Chief Investigator: Toan Nguyen Research Area: Improving children’s mental health and the impact of developmental disorders. Clinical Study Funding Amount:

2019

2019 Research Grants

2019 Research Grant

Optimizing treatment adherence and supporting ongoing desensitization following peanut oral immunotherapy in children: a randomized controlled trial of daily versus weekly peanut ingestion

Chief Investigator: Dr Billy Tao Research Area: Clinical Study Funding Amount: $ 74,843 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: Peanut allergy represents

2018

2018 Research Grants

2017

2017 Research Grants

2016

2016 Research Grants

2016 Research Grant, Individual Project Outcome Reports, Research Grants

Investigating 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 frequent
2016 Research Grant, Research Grants

PANDORA Cohort Wave 1 – assessment of the impact of maternal diabetes on child development

Chief Investigator: Dr Angela Titmuss Funding Amount: $35,000 Recipient: Menzies School of Health Research Overview: This project explores the child

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Supporting research into the prevention and management of childhood disability an disease
CRF FELLOWSHIPS

Supporting research into the prevention and management of childhood disability an disease

A CRF Fellowship is an exciting opportunity for mid-career researchers to pursue ground-breaking advances in childhood health, education and welfare, in South Australia.

Our CRF Fellowship program is dedicated to the Prevention and/or Management of Childhood Disability and Disease.

Dr Zlatko Kopecki and Associate Professor Luke Grzeskowiak are the inaugural Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation Fellows, and will focus on Childhood Wound Infections and Medicines Use and Safety, respectively.

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Our 2022 Research Grant Program

EOI submissions for the 2022 Grant Round is now CLOSED. Shortlisted applicants will be notified by 19 May.

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.

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Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation Chair for the Prevention of Childhood Disability
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 (mid 2016 to mid 2021) to understand more about the genetic basis of early childhood learning and movement disabilities, intellectual disabilities, early onset epilepsies, and autism.