Previous Grants Awarded
2025
Philanthropic Grant
Dr Erika Bosio, The University of Western Australia – $20,000 Donated in Memory of Margaret Allison Melvin
Developing a model of human microvasculature: Development and optimisation of confocal and live imaging.
Nursing and Allied Health Grant Program
Dr James Clarke, East Metropolitan Health Service – $14,850
Emotional Labour in Healthcare: A Targeted Intervention for Burnout Management
Mrs Rebecca Crellin, East Metropolitan Health Service – $14,907
Health in a Virtual Environment (HIVE): The patient perspective of continuous remote monitoring in acute care
Ms Shirene Mattaboni, Royal Perth Bentley Group – $15,000
Comparison of the efficacy and cost of central venous catheter fixation devices
Dr Irene Ngune, Royal Perth Bentley Group – $15,000
A feasibility study on Nurse Sensitive Outcomes in the Mental Health Setting
Monique Sandford, Royal Perth Bentley Group – $14,936
Exploring the experiences of haemodialysis patients with arteriovenous fistulas and grafts in hospital settings
2024
Research Innovation and Impact Grants
Program of the Western Australian (WA) Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund and the RPH Research Foundation
Dr Hun Chuah, Royal Perth Hospital – $1,147,285
A Pathway to Preventing Leukaemia
Professor Graham Hillis, Royal Perth Hospital – $1,164,379
Artificial intelligence to Improve Outcomes after Surgery
Associate Professor Agnes Yong, Royal Perth Hospital – $ 1,199,901
Personalised Place-of-care Manufactured Immune cells for Blood Cancer
Seed Funding Grant
Dr Collin Chin, Royal Perth Hospital – $20,000 – Donated in Memory of Margaret Allison Melvin
“Does a patient’s immune cell fitness affect their response to cell therapies in the treatment of cancer?”
Nursing and Allied Health Grant Program
Ms Gabby Calleja, Royal Perth Bentley Group – $15,000
Exploring The patient’s experience when allocated to an isolation room to manage MRO colonisation.
Mr Finn Chilcott, Royal Perth Hospital – $15,000
Improved lung function testing for transgender people.
Dr Karen Richards, St John of God Midland Public Hospital – $13,891
The clinical course of ankle or knee ligamentous injury sustained by children and adolescents that attend Midland Emergency Department.
Dr Robert Schutze, Royal Perth Hospital – $15,000
Blended pain care: A novel hybrid service model for chronic pain and mental health support.
Ms Sheldon Walker, Royal Perth Bentley Group – $13,970
Engaging Patients: Consumer informed, co-design of a composite measure for task engagement in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
2023
Seed Funding Grants
Dr Alannah Cooper, Royal Perth Hospital – $19,970.14
Investigating the use of an automated machine to deliver chest compressions in patients experiencing an in-hospital cardiac arrest.
Dr Mina John, Royal Perth Hospital – $17,195
Utilising drug concentration monitoring to improve personalisation of long-acting antiretroviral therapy in patients living with HIV.
Dr Tulene Kendrick, Royal Perth Hospital – $19,887
Refining the Diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.
Dr Vance Matthews, University of Western Australia – $20,000
The impact of glucose and sodium lowering therapies on heart and kidney disease.
Doreen McCarthy Nursing Research Grant
Kelly-Ann Hahn, Royal Perth Hospital – $20,000
An audit of the clinical indications and collection of MSU at Royal Perth Bentley Group
Nursing and Allied Health Grant Program
Alison Reading, Armadale Kalamunda Group Health Service – $14,961
Evaluating the health and wellbeing outcomes of older adults referred to the Falls Specialist Program at Armadale Kalamunda Group Health Service.
Dr Alannah Cooper, Royal Perth Hospital – $14,915
Measuring the level of palliative care need and referral rates to palliative care for adult patients in the East Metropolitan Health Service.
Ms Fion Lau, Royal Perth Bentley Group – $14,722
Does peak expiratory flow rate predict decannulation success in patients with a newly formed tracheostomy?
Associate Professor Vicki Patton, Royal Perth Hospital – $11,966
Co-design to identify the best method to approach Aboriginal patients who do not wait (DNW) for treatment or discharge against medical advice.
2022
Springboard Plus
Dr Catherine Bondonno Edith Cowan University – $64,499
Pardon the vegetables: how nitrate source determines health impact
Dr Hun Chuah, Department of Haematology, Royal Perth Hospital – $71,657
Circulating Tumour Cells in Plasma Cell Myeloma Predict Outcome
Dr Jason Dyke, PathWest LMWA – $72,000
Implications of Pathological TAU Accumulation in Epilepsy
Professor Anne-Marie Hill, University of Western Australia – $69,600
Promoting healthy ageing for recently hospitalised older people by implementing community health programs
Dr Kylie Hill, Curtin University – $71,460
Health in a Virtual Environment – a novel approach to measure bodily movement and integrate these signals with physiological data to optimise patient outcomes.
A/Prof Stephen Macdonald, University of Western Australia – $72,000
Proteomic signature of adult sepsis – discovery and validation
A/Prof Therese O’Sullivan, Edith Cowan University – $33,660
Mindful mouthfuls: Developing healthy eating behaviours from infancy
Miss Arunima Panda, Curtin University – $35,160
Identification and molecular analysis of Pancreatic cancer-derived exosomes
Dr Jing Pang, University of Western Australia – $71,927
Implementation of an optimised model of care for familial hypercholesterolaemia: role of primary care and its integration with specialist services
A/Prof Adil Rajwani Acute Medical Unit, Royal Perth Hospital – $70,200
Exploring the associations between bacterial pneumonia and new-onset heart failure
Dr Natalie Ward, University of Western Australia – $72,000
Implementation of a Statin Intolerance Registry
2021
Strategic Opportunities Matching Grant
Professor Anne-Marie Hill, University of Western Australia – $217,000
RPH Research Foundation awarded a Strategic Opportunities Grant to support Professor Anne-Marie Hill in the field of Healthy Ageing and Rehabilitation. This grant establishes a Professorial Academic Fellow in the field of Healthy Ageing and Rehabilitation in partnership with The University of Western Australia. The primary purpose of this position is to increase opportunities for research collaborations within the East Metropolitan Health Service and other tertiary institutions and improve the overall safety and quality of patient care.
2020
Career Advancement Fellowships
Dr Catherine Bondonno, Edith Cowan University’s Institute for Nutrition Research, total funding - $166,622 over three years
Nitrate and human health – villain or superhero?
Dr Lakshini Herat, Dobney Hypertension Centre, total funding - $233,755 over three years
Protecting the eyes and kidneys from diabetes-induced damage: an important role for a novel glucose lowering drug class.
Dr Dona Jayakody, Ear Science Institute Australia, total funding over three years - $227,872
Hearing aids to reduce risk of dementia and to improve quality of life in Aboriginal older adults.
Dr David McCutcheon, Royal Perth Hospital’s Centre for Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine, total funding over three years - $766,300
An Early Warning System for Emerging Drugs of Concern in the Emergency Department
Dr Marc Sim, Edith Cowan University’s Institute for Nutrition Research, total funding over three years - $145,864
Improving muscle and bone health through diet and exercise to reduce the risk of falls and associated injuries.
Innovation and Impact Grants
Associate Professor Alan Kop, East Metropolitan Health Service, total funding over course of grant - $368,330
Tissue engineering using adult mesenchymal stem cells and 3D printed scaffolds to accelerate complex wound healing.
Dr Andrew Ford, University of Western Australia, total funding over course of grant - $592,190
Hearing Aids to support the cognitive functioning of older adults at risk of dementia: the HearCog Study
Doreen McCarthy Nursing Research Grant
Jonathon Burcham, Royal Perth Hospital – $19,993
The INFORMED Sepsis study: Improving Information Comprehension and Recall Metrics in the Emergency Department
2019
Springboard Grant Program
Dr Chi Le-Ha, Medical School, UWA - $20,000
Relationships of androgens in cord blood at birth and of age at menarche with cardiovascular risk factors in early adulthood
Dr Dino Bee Aik Tan, Mr Bi Lam Centre for Respiratory Health, School of Biomedical Sciences UWA - $20,000
Down-regulation of inflammation by nebulised factors from MSC-conditioned media
Dr Julie Proudfoot, School of Biomedical Sciences, UWA - $20,016
Effect of oxidized lipids on macrophage function
Dr Stephen Macdonald, Emergency Department, RPH - $20,000
The effect of fluid volume on inflammation during sepsis resuscitation
Dr Nina McCarthy, Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease - $20,000
Using genetics to shed light on the shared biological basis of common psychiatric disorders
Dr Abbie Francis, Centre for Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine - $20,000
Confirming a unique genetic signature during anaphylaxis
Dr Ho-Wing (Arthur) Yau, Department of Cardiology, RPH - $20,000
Exercise as Medicine for advanced heart failure
Associate Professor Michelle Kelly, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Curtin University - $20,000
Improving the hospital discharge process to minimise patient readmission: a partnership with consumers
Dr Andrew Toner, Anaesthesia Department, RPH - $20,000
Lidocaine infusions to prevent chronic pain after breast cancer surgery
Dr Omar Azzam, Acute Medical Unit, RPH - $20,000
Unravelling the role of the immune system in human hypertension
Dr Olufemi Oshin, Vascular Surgery, RPH - $19,672
3D Printing of Bone for Diabetic Feet Damian Jolly Vascular Surgery
Dr Ruohan Li, Cell and Tissue Therapies WA, RPH - $20,000
An “Off-the-Shelf” Genetically-Modified Cell Therapy for Cancer
Dr Sing Ching Lee, Department of Cardiology, RPH - $20,000
Is physical activity level associated with the rate of atherosclerotic plaque progression and vascular dysfunction in patients with diabetes mellitus without prior cardiovascular events.
Dr Jason Dyke, Pathwest, RPH - $20,000
Identification of a Novel Form of Brain Damage in Epilepsy Patients
Dr Nicola Bondonno, School of Biomedical Sciences, Edith Cowan University - $19,930
Validating the use of gamma-valerolactone as a marker of flavan-3-ol intake
2018
Seeding Grant Program
Dr Jamie Bellinge, Department of Cardiology, RPH - $20,000
Validating the use of 18F-Sodium Fluoride positron emission tomography as a marker of calcification activity within the coronary arteries in asymptomatic individuals with diabetes mellitus
Mr Leon Brownrigg, Cell & Tissue Therapies WA, RPH - $14,300
Establishment, Manufacture and Pre-clinical Evaluation of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cells for Immunotherapy
Dr Riti Chetty, Department of Cardiology, RPH - $20,000
The Quadruple UltrA-low-dose tReaTment for hypErTension (QUARTET) trial cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and echocardiographic sub-study
Dr David Chieng, Department of Cardiology, RPH - $20,000
The incremental utility of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in presentations with Myocardial Infarction with Non-Obstructed Coronary Arteries (MINOCA)
Dr Hun Chuah, Department of Haematology, RPH - $19,920
Molecular monitoring of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia using plasma and urine cell-free DNA
Dr Jason Dyke, Department of Neuropathology, RPH - $20,000
Phenotypic and molecular characterisation of glioneuronal Tumours
Dr Alan Kop, Department of Medical Engineering & Physics, RPH - $15,000
Mesenchymal stem cell spheroids on collagen scaffolds to accelerate wound healing
Dr Anton Leonard, Intensive Care Medicine, RPH - $19,785
Consumers’ experiences of goals of patient care: An exploratory study
Dr David McCutcheon, Department of Emergency Medicine, RPH - $19,653
Western Australian Illicit Substance Evaluation (WISE)
Professor David Nolan, Department of Immunology, RPH - $20,000
Immunological biomarkers of inflammation as independent risk factors of future cardiovascular events in the population
Dr Adil Rajwani, Department of Cardiology, RPH - $20,000
Exploring the mechanisms underlying incident heart failure in survivors of pneumonia
Professor Carl Schultz, Department of Cardiology, RPH - $20,000
Potential of 68Gallium Dotatate PET for detecting high risk atherosclerosis in mice and humans
Dr Cara Winnall, Department of Cardiology, RPH - $20,000
The UtiLitY of cardiac myosin binding protein C in the Early Triage of low risk patients with Suspected acute coronary syndromes (ULYCES)
Dr Kevin Yuen, Department of Palliative Care, RPH - $19,997
Mindfulness-based compassion training for health professionals providing end of life: Is it effective, feasible and acceptable?
Professor Anne Barden, University Department of Medicine, UWA - $20,000
Resolution of inflammation in pregnancies complicated by diabetes and pre-eclampsia
Dr Dick Chan, University Department of Medicine, UWA - $19,700
Molecular imaging of arterial inflammation in patients with elevated lipoprotein(a): A novel approach for assessing the impact of a new risk factor in atherosclerosis
Dr Stephen Macdonald, Department of Emergency Medicine, RPH - $20,000
The role of Resistin in endothelial cell activation in human sepsis
Dr Vance Matthews, School of Biomedical Sciences, UWA - $20,000
Investigating the role of sodium glucose co-transporter 2 in diabetic retinopathy
Professor Markus Schlaich, Dobney Hypertension Centre, UWA - $20,000
Sympatho-inhibition as a preferred second line treatment of obesity related hypertension
Dr Dino Bee Aik Tan, School of Biomedical Sciences, UWA - $20,000
Characterisation of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-derived exosomes as cell-free anti-inflammatory therapy in COPD
Dr Natalie Ward, School of Biomedical Sciences, UWA - $20,000
The cardio-protective effects of dietary nitrate
Dr Marc Sim, School of Medical and Health Sciences, ECU - $19,064
Developing a national database for vitamin K1 and K2 content in food