Congratulations to the seven staff members who have received funding through the WA Near-Miss Awards: Emerging Leaders (WANMA EL) 2023 program.

The following staff were granted WANMA EL 2023 Fellowships:

  • Associate Professor Chris Brennan-Jones from the Curtin School of Allied Health and Telethon Kids Institute was awarded $951,714 for the project: ‘Djaalinj Waakinj (Listening, Talking): partnering with the community to improve prevention, treatment and long-term outcomes for children with ear disease and hearing loss.’
  • Associate Professor Rishi Kotecha from Curtin Medical School and Telethon Kids Institute was awarded $881,371 for the project: ‘Improving outcomes for children with cancer.’
  • Dr Amanuel Gebremedhin from the Curtin School of Population Health was awarded $397, 224 for the project: ‘A Novel Maternal Epigenetic Age Estimator to Promote Healthy Pregnancy Outcomes.’

The following staff were awarded $100,000 WANMA EL Grants towards their projects:

  • Dr Berihun Dachew from the Curtin School of Population Health, for the project: ‘Mental health impacts of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs): Analysing data to guide when and how to intervene early to break the cycle.’
  • Dr William Gilmore from the National Drug Research Institute, for the project: ‘Alcohol and Ageing in Australia: Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Analysis of Alcohol Availability’s Impact on Use and Harm Among our Ageing Population.’
  • Dr Sarah Hellewell from Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute and Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, for the project: ‘Revealing biological mechanisms of mild traumatic brain injury and predicting outcomes using advanced neuroimaging.’
  • Dr Katherine Landwehr from the Curtin School of Population Health and Telethon Kids Institute, for the project: ‘The unforeseen side effects of air pollution: a current and future health crisis that will have the greatest impact on children.’

Funded by the State Future Health Research and Innovation Fund the WA Near-Miss Awards: Emerging Leaders program grants are provided to researchers who narrowly missed out on securing funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council.

For more information about the winners see the announcement here.