“As researchers, we’ve got lots of ideas. Your donations allow our ideas to progress to fruition”
Ian Chao, recipient of the Robert C Bulley Surgical Research Grant
Awards event
The 2017 Eastern Health Foundation Research Grants awards event on 16 February was a fantastic opportunity to congratulate our 2017 investigators (pictured) and celebrate the generous support of individuals, community groups and businesses.
“Eastern Health Foundation is committed to supporting research that maximises patient wellbeing, improves our practices and policies and enhances our quality of care – it’s all about putting patients first,” explains Anne Gribbin, Director, Eastern Health Foundation.
“Our 2017 Grant recipients represent a wide range of disciplines and areas of research, from oncology to Borderline Personality Disorder to smartphone application.”
“We sincerely thank our most generous donors for their invaluable support of this program. Our donors are members of our local community, including families, Clubs, businesses and individuals,” explains Anne.
“By supporting this program, our donors enable Eastern Health to increase our research capabilities and translate our findings into real-world outcomes for the patients we care for. We simply could not achieve this without donor support.”
“Our goal is to have a long lasting and direct impact on improving the health of our local community through research outcomes,” says Anne.
Find out more about the Eastern Health Foundation Research Grants program.
2017 recipients and donors
Congratulations to the following staff and a heartfelt thank you to the donors who made each grant possible:
| Recipient | Department | Research project |
| Professor Ian Davis | Medicine - Oncology | Linda Williams Memorial Oncology Research Grant Characterisation of the properties of a novel molecule that specifically binds to estrogen receptor alpha |
| Professor Christopher Gilfillan | Medicine - Endocrinology | Linda Williams Memorial Oncology Research Grant Isolation and molecular characterization of thyroid-origin cells and circulating thyroid cancers cells from peripheral blood by flow cytometry |
| Dr Matthew Jiang | Department of General Medicine | John Funder Research Mentoring Award Gluten free (GF) meals in cafes and restaurants. Are they truly GF? An Australian analysis of GF meals in cafes and restaurants in Melbourne |
| A/Prof Stephen Ting | Medicine - Haematology | Eastern Health Foundation Oncology Grant STATs as a biomarker for poor prognosis in Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. |
| Professor Chris Bladin | Medicine - Neurology | Irene Mary Sammons Research Grant Does Exenatide attenuate blood-brain barrier derangement in acute ischaemic stroke? An MRI permeability study |
| Dr Patrick Carney | Medicine - Neurology | Rotary Club of Box Hill Bruce McKenzie Scholarship Depression in epilepsy: Does medication induced changes in brain connectivity contribute to depression? |
| Dr Patrick Carney | Medicine - Neurology | House Husbands Research Grant Does medication change brain connectivity following a new diagnosis of epilepsy? |
| Dr Jillian Broadbear | Mental Health - Spectrum | House Husbands Research Grant Burden of suicide and self harm in Emergency Department presentations arising from a probable diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder |
| Dr Catherine Brumby | Medicine - Renal | Elaine and Frank Derwent Memorial Research Grant Screening for hypertension and other risk factors after pregnancy (SHORAP Study) |
| Dr Ming li Yee | Medicine - Endocrinology | Elaine and Frank Derwent Memorial Research Grant Sarcopenia and its relationship to bone mineral density, metabolism, and outcomes in post-menopausal women with hip fracture |
| Dr Ian Chao | Surgery | Robert C Bulley Surgical Research Grant The Application of 3D-printing technology for the purposes of anaesthesia education |
| Dr Daniel Van Langenbe | Medicine - Gastroenterology | Wandin Rustic Dinner Research Grant Reinduction as preferred first-line compared to dose interval shortening for loss of response to infliximab in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: an effective, sustainable approach to a growing problem |
| Dr Eliza Hawkes | Medicine - Oncology | Carolyn Goodie Memorial Melanoma Research Award Role of on treatment PET scanning in melanoma patients receiving immunotherapy |
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Dr Judi Porter |
Allied Health Research office | Box Hill Golf Club Research Grant Pilot study of doubly-labelled water to develop international equations of total energy expenditure in the older elderly |
| Dr Andrew Teh | Medicine -Cardiology | Team FORE (Fundraising and Office of Research & Ethics) Research Grant Utilization of mobile smart phone based electrocardiogram and smart watches in assessment of arrhythmias |
| Dr Olga Skibina | Medicine - Neurology | MS Research Grant Understanding pregnancy outcomes in Multiple Sclerosis |
| Mr Kevin McMillan | Medicine - Urology | Eastern Health Foundation Oncology Research Grant An assessment of PSA referral trends from community GP's to Eastern Health: how can it be improved? |
| Dr Victoria Manning | Turning Point | Buddha Vihara Temple Research Grant Can novel computerised brain training reduce relapse among methamphetamine users? |
| Ms Natalie Heynsbergh | Deakin University | 1 year top up scholarship Development of a smartphone application for carers of people with colorectal cancer: a pilot study |
| Mr David Snowdon | La Trobe University | Top up scholarship Does effective clinical supervision of Allied Health professionals improve quality of care |
| Mr Jithin Sajeev | Monash University | 1 year top up scholarship Atrial Myopathy: Analysing the link to cryptogenic stroke |
The 2018 application process will open in approximately October 2017 and close November 2017.
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