2024 Grant Funding Winners

TAAHC is pleased to announce the 2024 Grant funding winners. More than $600,000 has been awarded to local health researchers in a bid to kick start their research into some of the north’s most challenging health issues.

The Seed Funding and Clinical Research Fellowship programs support research projects across a diverse range of health and medical challenges, underpinned by our core research themes:

TAAHC’s interim Chair, Helen Darch AOM said the centre’s grant scheme provides opportunities for researchers at every career stage to translate their ideas, whether it be formed in the laboratory, in the clinic or in the community, into deliverable evidence-based outcomes.'

'The diversity across researcher career stage, discipline, disease focus and location will support a wide array of new research and answer some of north Queensland’s toughest health and medical questions.'

The grants include a Seed Funding Scheme, focused on helping researchers secure larger grants to grow their project and Clinical Researcher Fellowships, which provide working clinicians with security to undertake their research activities.

From 17 applications in total, 13 applications were awarded funding after an extensive peer review process by our Expert Advisory Group. Over $600,000 has been committed for this funding round.

The 2024 winners are:

Grant	Principal Investigator	Lead Organisation	Project Title	Amount
Seed Funding	Ms Cindy Sealey	Townsville Hospital and Health Service	Consumer and Community Research Partnerships: Enabling capacity and strength in rural, regional, and remote northern Queensland health and medical research.	$50,000.00
Seed Funding	A/Prof Harshal Deshmukh	Mackay Hospital and Health Service	Effect of Continuous Glucose Monitoring on wound healing, quality of life, and amputation rates in high-risk diabetes foot clinic	$50,000.00
Seed Funding	Dr Guangzu Zhao	James Cook University	Advancing the pre-clinical evaluation of a novel modular self-assembling and self-adjuvanting multiepitope peptide-based nanoparticle tuberculosis vaccine candidate	$49,885.00
Seed Funding	Dr Samantha Teague	James Cook University	Beyond the bump: Leveraging social media to build positive perinatal mental health in regional, rural and remote North Queensland women	$49,959.53
Seed Funding	Dr Eamon Raith	Mackay Hospital and Health Service	Immune Dysregulation in sepsis due to Burkholderia pseudomallei Infection (melioidosis) in North Queensland	$50,000.00
Seed Funding	A/Prof Richard Bradbury	James Cook University	Parasitic Disease Wastewater Surveillance to Inform Public Health Action in Remote Northern Queensland	$49,834.00
Seed Funding	Dr Tao Xing (Daniel)	Townsville Hospital and Health Service	Artificial intelligence-guided detection of tumour peptides for immunotherapy against therapy-resistant cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC)	$50,000.00
Clinician Researcher Fellowship	Ms Kylie Fischer	Torres and Cape Health and Hospital Service	Barriers and enablers to evidence-based acute paediatric burn care within rural and remote healthcare facilities	$39,251.27
Clinician Researcher Fellowship	Dr Nariyoshi Miyata	North West Hospital and Health Service	Retrospective review of Trauma Patient Flow and Outcomes in Remote Healthcare Settings	$34,667.00
Clinician Researcher Fellowship	Dr Eamon Raith	Mackay Hospital and Health Service	Sepsis Subphenotypes in North Queensland	$53,095.00
Clinician Researcher Fellowship	Dr Janika Dobbie	Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council	‘Healthy Skin, Strong Hearts’ - a community approach to reducing Strep A infections in an urban First Nations Australian community	$39,936.00
Clinician Researcher Fellowship	Dr Raja Sadhu	Townsville Hospital and Health Service	Interrelationships between sleep disorders, autonomic dysregulation, inflammatory, oxidative stress biomarkers and ACEs in children and adolescents	$48,978.00
Clinician Researcher Fellowship	Dr Mike Wu	Townsville Hospital and Health Service	Resource requirement prediction for peripheral arterial disease patients using machine learning	$34,667.00

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