A total of $4.73 million in funding has been awarded to 25 early and mid-career researchers under the Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund WA Near Miss Awards: Emerging Leaders 2023 (WANMA EL) program.
Research on dietary nitrate, uveal melanoma, Crohn’s disease and closing the sex disparity gap for cardiovascular disease’ are among the winning ideas granted funding for further development by the 2023 WA Near-miss Awards (WANMA).
Four of Edith Cowan University’s (ECU) early-and mid-career researchers were awarded national grants of $100,000 to accelerate the success of their innovative research ideas.
The awards may be comically named but winners are seen as serious contenders in the future of health research and innovation. The grants provide real recognition for researchers who only narrowly missed out on a highly sought-after National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas grant.
Nutrition & Health Innovation Research Institute
- Dr Catherine Bondonno – was awarded for research on ‘Dietary nitrate: separating fact from fiction in human health’.
- Dr Cassandra Smith – was awarded research on ‘Closing the sex disparity gap for cardiovascular disease’.
Centre for Precision Health
- Dr Aaron Beasley – was awarded for research on ‘Using circulating tumour cells in novel uveal melanoma PDX to discover new therapies’.
- Dr Xingang Li – was awarded for research on ‘B Cell Regulation of immunoglobulin G N-Glycosylation in Crohn’s disease’.
This year, the program awarded 21 Emerging Leader $100,000 Grants to be used over 12 months to enhance the NHMRC application.
Visit the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund website to see the full list of recipients for the WANMA EL 2023 program.
Congratulations to this year’s recipients.
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