


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


Identifying therapies that reduce transmission of mitochondrial heteroplasmy from mother to child.
Chief Investigator: Professor Rebecca Robker Research Area: Improving children’s mental health and the impact of developmental disorders. Basic Science Funding
Reducing developmental disorders and other side effects with novel proton radiation treatment for children with brain cancers
Chief Investigator: Miss Mikaela Dell’Oro Research Area: Improving children’s mental health and the impact of developmental disorders. Basic Science Funding
Helping children with intellectual disabilities develop real-world life skills in virtual reality
Chief Investigator: Mr Stefan Michalski [Early Career Researcher] Research Area: Improving children’s mental health and the impact of developmental disordersClinical2020 Research Grants
Social welfare dependency and receipt of welfare benefits following child abuse and neglect: a South Australian linked data study
Chief Investigator: Emmanuel Gnanamanickam (Early Career Researcher) Research Area: Improving child protection and its effects. Community-based study Funding Amount: $40,000Testing the first treatment to protect babies of asthmatic women from lung disease – a pilot study
Chief Investigator: Dr Kathryn Gatford Research Area: Basic Science Funding Amount: $85,000 Recipient: The University of Adelaide Overview: Babies of“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:Multimodal storytelling for life: Building literacies and numeracies for agentive futures
Chief Investigator: Kerrie Mackey-Smith Research Area: Understanding the social determinants of childhood health and development. Community-based study Funding Amount: $87,3172019 Research Grants
Establishing the clinical potential of sphingomimetics in children’s eczema
Chief Investigator: Dr Kwok Ho Yip Research Area: Basic Science Funding Amount: $ 74,888 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview:Injury site-derived proteoglycan glypican-3 suppresses growth plate cartilage bony repair and bone fracture healing
Chief Investigator: Dr Yu-Wen Su Research Area: Basic Science Funding Amount: $ 75,000 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview: TwoThriving in adversity: disadvantaged children performing well in school
Chief Investigator: Dr Catherine Chittleborough Research Area: Improving children’s mental health and the impact of developmental disorders.Community Based Study Funding Amount: $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 represents2018 Research Grants
Developing a 3D navigation model for improving precision and success rates for treating developmental dysplasia of the hip in children
Chief Investigator: Dr Liping Wang Funding Amount: $34,926 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview: Developmental dislocation of the hip (DDH)A New Breath Test for Paediatric Coeliac Disease
Chief Investigator: Dr Roger Yazbek Funding Amount: $74,406 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: Almost 1% of Australian children suffer with coeliacDesigned Antibiotics Targeting Drug-Resistant and Latent Tuberculosis
Chief Investigator: Dr Kate Wegener Funding Amount: $74,411 Recipient: University of Adelaide Overview: Over 200 000 children die each yearThe utility of resveratrol for improving fetal growth in complicated pregnancies
Chief Investigator: Dr Alison Care Funding Amount: $74,276 Recipient: University of Adelaide Overview: Impaired fetal growth during pregnancy impacts subsequent2017 Research Grants
2016 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 childPANDORA 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 childNew treatment for childhood leukaemia
Chief Investigator: Professor Shudong Wang Funding Amount: $75,000 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview: Mixed lineage leukaemia (MLL) is theIdentifying the pathological mechanism of childhood epilepsy and adolescent movement disorders caused by PRRT2 mutations
Chief Investigator: Dr James Hughes Funding Amount: $75,000 Recipient: The University of Adelaide Overview: Epilepsy and movement disorders are highlyWant to Be A Champion of Children's Research? Enquire With Us Today!
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.

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!