Dr (Elizabeth) Emma Palmer, Dr Lisa Ewans, Dr Alan Ma, and partner colleagues were awarded $980,000 (MRFF Genomics Health Futures) for their Diagnosis4All project which will co-design equitable and sustainable solutions to build access to a genetic diagnosis for people living in remote Australian communities.

Dr Palmer and Dr Ewans are a Clinical Geneticists at the Centre for Clinical Genetics at Kids Research. Dr Ma is a Clinical Geneticist at the Genomics Implementation Research Unit at Kids Research.

Dr Laurel Mimmo with partner colleagues was awarded $1,900,000 (MRFF Improving the Health Outcomes of People with Intellectual Disability) to co-produce with people living or working with intellectual disability and implement a patient reported outcome measures system that allows patients to identify emerging physical and psychosocial health needs to improve their health and wellbeing outcomes.

Dr Mimmo is a Senior Research Fellow at the Nursing Research Unit, and one of our Clinician Researcher Fellows at Kids Research.

Dr Annaleise Howard-Jones with partner colleagues was awarded $500,000 (NSW Health Translational Research Grants Scheme) to improve microbial characterisation with targeted metagenomics in immunosuppressed patients.

Dr Howard-Jones is an Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Specialist at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.

Prof Germaine Wong was awarded $2,730,000 (MRFF International Clinical Trial Collaborations) to expand upon the TACKLE-IT research to develop a multicentre randomised controlled trial to treat acute T-cell mediated rejection in kidney and kidney pancreas transplant recipients.

Prof Wong is an Academic Transplant Nephrologist with the Centre for Kidney Research at Kids Research.

Prof Bette Liu with partner colleagues was awarded close to $1,500,000 (NHMRC Partnership Project) to investigate maternal immunisation programs to optimise maternal and neonatal vaccination outcomes.

Prof Liu is a Senior Medical Officer at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance located at Kids Research.

Dr Bernadette Prentice, Dr Michael Coffey and Dr Keith Ooi were awarded nearly $220,000 (Cure4CF Grant) to evaluate the impact of Trikafta® in patients with cystic fibrosis-related diabetes.

Dr Prentice is a Paediatric Respiratory Staff Specialist at the Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, and one of our Clinician Researcher Fellows at Kids Research working with Gastroenterologists, Dr Coffey and Dr Ooi, with the MiGAP Research Group.

Dr (Elizabeth) Emma Palmer with partner colleagues was awarded $2,000,000 (MRFF Improving Health Outcomes for People with Intellectual Disability) to the ‘My Health Choices My Way’ project building health literacy to support families and carers living or working with intellectual disability.

Dr Palmer is a Clinical Geneticist at the Centre for Clinical Genetics at Kids Research.

Dr Himanshu Popat was awarded $33,000 (Cerebral Palsy Alliance Grant) to conduct a feasibility study of general movements assessment as an early surrogate marker of cerebral palsy in infants using smart phone videos via the Baby Moves app in rural Bangladesh.

Dr Popat is Newborn Intensivist and Co-head of the Grace Research Unit, and one of our Clinician Researcher Fellows at Kids Research.

A/Prof Phoebe Williams with partner colleagues was awarded $2,560,000 (Gates Foundation) for their CARES-1 project to find new oral treatment options that will reduce the rapidly rising global burden of congenital syphilis.

A/Prof Williams was additionally awarded over $410,000 (Gates Foundation) to conduct an international multicentre study to research a vaccine to reduce neonatal sepsis.

She was also awarded $20,000 (Sydney Southeast Asia Centre) to evaluate how the management of babies in the neonatal intensive care unit influences their microbiome and subsequent clinical outcomes.

A/Prof Williams is Infectious Diseases Physician with the RaPID research group at Kids Research.

Dr Bernadette Prentice was awarded $50,000 (Royal Australian College of Physicians Foundation - Diabetes Australia) to research using registry studies to evaluate the impact of Trikafta® in Australian patients with cystic fibrosis-related diabetes.

Dr Prentice is a Paediatric Respiratory Staff Specialist at the Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, and one of our Clinician Researcher Fellows at Kids Research.

A/Prof Aaron Schindeler and Dr Alexandra O'Donohue were awarded $1,540,000 (NHMRC Ideas Grant) to research gene therapy to correct genetic disorder achondroplasia.

A/Prof Schindeler is Head of the Bioengineering and Molecular Medicine group at Kids Research and Dr O'Donohue is a Postdoctoral Scientist in the team.

Prof Wendy Gold and A/Prof Carolyn Ellaway were awarded $1,710,000 (NHMRC Ideas Grant) to conduct a novel multi-isoform gene therapy approach for neurodevelopmental disorders.

Prof Gold is Head of the Molecular Neurobiology group with the Kids Neuroscience Centre at Kids Research. A/Prof Ellaway is a Clinical Geneticist with the Genetic Metabolic Disorders Service at Kids Research.