Six The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers are among those who have received grant funding from the Telethon-Perth Children’s Hospital Research Fund (TPCHRF).
Health Minister Roger Cook announced almost $3.5 million in funding, with over $1.7 million of the funding being awarded to the Institute to support research in the areas of personalised medicine, rheumatic fever, ear health, respiratory health and antibiotic resistant infections.
The Department of Health awarded 13 Stream 1 grants that focus on short-term research projects which aim to improve the health of children and adolescents in WA. The following project grants were awarded to The Kids researchers.
- Timothy Barnett – Progress towards a cytokine-release assay for the diagnosis of Acute Rheumatic Fever
- Chris Brennan-Jones – EAR Portal: A randomised waitlist-controlled trial of an urban-based ENT and Audiology Referral (EAR) Telehealth Portal to provide equitable access to specialist ear health services for children. (Stream 1a special initiative)
- Graham Hall – Preventing perioperative respiratory complications in children with recurrent respiratory symptoms
- Anthony Kicic – Developing a novel therapeutics pipeline for antibiotic resistant infections in children (Stream 1a special initiative)
- Ingrid Laing – Persistent respiratory exacerbation phenotype – clinical impact and biological signature replication
The Department of Health also awarded one Stream 2 project grant, which went to Professor Steve Stick, Head of Respiratory Health at The Kids, for his Children’s regenerative and genetic medicine program project. Stream two grants aim to strategically improve the capacity of the child and adolescent research sector.
The Kids Research Institute Australia Director Professor Jonathan Carapetis thanked the fund for its support and congratulated those who were awarded grants.
“We’re extremely grateful to the fund for supporting such innovative research here in Western Australia.
“The Institute is very proud to house such outstanding researchers and these grants will enable them to continue their work to improve the health and development of children and their families across the country.”
The fund was established by the Department of Health and the Channel 7 Telethon Trust to provide financial support to research projects that focus on the health of children and adolescents in WA.
Read more about the grants here.
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