Research Innovation and Impact Grants

In 2020 the RPH Research Foundation launched its inaugural Research Innovation and Impact grant program.

The program was created to support Mid-Career and Senior researchers who are translating novel ideas into healthcare innovations that could make a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of our community.

This program was highly competitive and attracted many innovative ideas. In 2020, the Foundation announced the inaugural winners Dr Alan Kop and Dr Andrew Ford.

They were awarded a grant valued up to $200,000 per year for up to three years to give these forward thinkers the freedom to investigate innovative ideas that could be game changers for healthcare providers and their patients.

Dr Kop and Dr Ford’s projects challenge existing paradigms and explore different paths that dare to veer from the current lines of investigation.

Thanks to matched co-funding from the Western Australian Future Health Research and Innovation Fund (FHRI Fund) in 2024, RPH Research Foundation has awarded a total of $3,526,670 across three innovative research projects.

The three projects will be led by researchers at the Royal Perth Hospital and address critical health challenges to improve Western Australian patient outcomes.

From developing highly effective personalised Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells to help treat incurable cancers to using machine learning to predict cardiovascular complications after non-cardiac surgery, these innovative projects are challenging existing paradigms.