Grants kick off valuable health studies

The Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI) has announced the recipients of this year’s Kickstart grant round, which supports early career researchers in the College of Medicine and Public Health.

Seven researchers are sharing in the $150,000 funding pool, aligned with FHMRI’s research themes of clinical translation, healthy communities, and molecular biosciences.

The successful recipients and their projects are:

Courtney Ryder: Understanding out-of-pocket health expenditure impacts on Aboriginal families in Australia

Dr Annabelle Wilson: Exploring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander understandings of health and wellbeing in the Australian Football League

Dr Pramod Nair: Investigating the binding characteristics of new generation anticancer drugs: A mechanistic approach towards precision drug dosing

Dr Marta Gabryelska: Identification of new therapeutic targets in prostate cancer via RNA-RNA interactomic profiling

Dr Yohannes Adama Melaku: Improving migrants’ health through diet and sleep: a pilot study and comparison with Australian-born residents using existing community-based cohort studies

Dr Madele van Dyk: Maximise treatment effect while minimising toxicity of dasatinib in patients with leukaemia

Dr Hailay Abrha Gesesew: Improving involvement of traditional healers in HIV care collaborations in Ethiopia

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