Chief Investigator: Professor Leanne Dibbens Funding Amount: $100,000 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview: Children with a defective potassium channel (KCNT1) gene have a serious developmental disorder which includes epilepsy
Chief Investigator: Dr Branka Grubor-Bauk Research Area: Improving children’s mental health and the impact of developmental disorders. Basic Science Funding Amount: $100,000 Recipient: The University of Adelaide Overview: The major
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Anna Ziersch Research Area: Understanding the social determinants of childhood health and development. Community Based Study Funding Amount: $99,985 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: Settling into a
Chief Investigator: Dr Shao Jia Zhou Funding Amount: $74,577 Recipient: University of Adelaide Overview: Iodine is essential for thyroid hormone production and critical for brain development. In pregnancy, inadequate or
Chief Investigator: Dr Mingfeng Yu Funding Amount: $ 35,000 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview: In Australia, acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is the second leading cause of cancer death in
Chief Investigator: Dr Danushka Wijesundara Research Area: Basic Science Funding Amount: $ 74,785 Recipient: The University of Adelaide Overview: Since the recent Brazilian outbreak, Zika virus is recognized to cause
Chief Investigator: Professor Megan Warin Funding Amount: $74,517 Recipient: University of Adelaide Overview: Innovative ways of tackling childhood obesity in disadvantaged communities are urgently needed. This mixed-methods research will evaluate
Chief Investigator: Dr Kwok Ho Yip Funding Amount: $74,888 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview: Eczema is a long-term inflammatory skin disease that affects 15-30% of children in industrialised countries,
Chief Investigator: Dr Yu-Wen Su Funding Amount: $75,000 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview: Two major challenges in paediatric orthopaedics are (1) the faulty or unwanted bony repair of injured
Chief Investigator: Dr Catherine Chittleborough Funding Amount: $72,164 Recipient: University of Adelaide Overview: Australian Early Development Census results for South Australian children show 23.5% are developmentally vulnerable at age 5.
