2022 Research Grants
Psychotropic medications in children and adolescents: investigating longitudinal trends and determinants of use, persistence, and outcomes
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Luke Grzeskowiak Funding Amount: $99,983 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: Considerable debate surrounds the widespread prescribing of psychotropic medications in
Out-of-home care is not one thing: effects of complex care patterns on health, development and welfare outcomes
Chief Investigator: Dr Dandara Haag Funding Amount: $99,789 Recipient: The University of Adelaide Overview: Out-of-home care (OOHC) experiences have significant implications on life
Human umbilical cord-derived haemangioblasts: discovery of a robust stem cell population for skin wound healing in children
Chief Investigator: Dr Mohammadhossein Hassanshahi [Early Career Researcher] Funding Amount: $39,800 Recipient: The University of Adelaide Overview: Paediatric patients generally have much more2021 Research Grants
Linking homeless children and their families to community health and wellbeing services: Using a Nurse Practitioner model of care to improve child health outcomes
Chief Investigator: Dr Yvonne Parry Research Area: Understanding the social determinants of childhood health and development. Community Based Study Funding Does maternal obesity drive childhood obesity through interactions between the gut microbiome and gut endocrine cells?
Chief Investigator: Professor Damien Keating Research Area: Reducing childhood obesity and its impacts. Basic Science. Funding Year: 2021 Funding Amount:
Feeding practices and anaemia rates of South Australian Aboriginal infants and young children living in South Australia
Chief Investigator: Ms Karen Glover Research Area: Reducing childhood obesity and its impactCommunity Based Study Funding Year: 2021 Funding Amount:
Developing novel treatments for MTOR-related severe childhood epilepsies
Chief Investigator: Professor Leanne Dibbens Research Area: Improving children’s mental health and the impact of developmental disorders. Basic Science Funding
CRF FELLOWSHIPS
Supporting research into the prevention and management of childhood disability and 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.
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) was created to help understand more about the genetic basis of early childhood learning and movement disabilities, intellectual disabilities, early onset epilepsies, and autism.