2023 Science Innovation Seed Funding Awards
By Rob Clancy, staff writer
Hudson Institute’s Research Committee has announced this year’s recipients of the Science Innovation Seed Funding Awards.
The awards provide seed funding to support innovative blue-sky ideas, interdisciplinary research, and collaborations between researchers. This seed funding allows researchers to gather the baseline data for out-of-the-box ideas and provides a clear pathway to sustainable funding.
“Seed funding is crucial for starting innovative research projects and collecting critical data needed to secure funding. Importantly, this funding also connects researchers across centres – building multi-disciplinary teams that bring unique perspectives and resources to challenge the status quo.” Professor Ron Firestein, co-chair, Hudson Institute Research Committee.
Hudson Institute researchers will receive four awards of $30,000 each to support collaborative projects at the postdoctoral research level, and four awards of $50,000 each to support collaborative projects by senior researchers. In addition, two new special awards in the field of paediatric cancer were announced – one of up to $30,000 to support a researcher at the postdoctoral research level and another of up to $50,000 at the Group Head level.
Congratulations to all the 2023 recipients of the Science Innovation Seed Funding Awards.
Science Innovation Seed Funding award recipients
Postdoctoral Researcher award recipients
Dr Cristina Giogha (CiiiD) and Dr Daniel Garama (CCR)
Project: Understanding how bacteria remodel the intestine to cause disease
Dr Sarah Moody (CRH) and Dr Kallyanashis Paul (TRC)
Project: Building tissue-engineered 3D models to understand testicular germ cell tumour biology
Dr Chunhua Wan (CCR) and Dr Hani Hosseini Far (CiiiD)
Project: Understanding Wnt/β-catenin signalling regulation using human tumour and iPS cell-derived normal intestinal organoids
Dr Nhi Thao Tran (TRC) and Dr Tayla Penny (TRC)
Project: Is two better than one for perinatal hypoxic brain injury?
Senior researcher award recipients
Dr Shayanti Mukherjee (TRC) and Associate Professor Michael Gantier (CiiiD)
Project: Novel therapeutics for maternal childbirth injury
Dr Nicole de Weerd (CiiiD) and Dr Daniel Garama (CCR)
Project: Elucidating unappreciated effects on the proteome by the innate immune cytokine
Professor Kate Loveland (CRH) and Dr Pouya Faridi (CCR)
Project: Delineating the immunopeptidome of testis germ cell tumours (TGCTs)
Professor Vincent Harley (CEM) and Associate Professor Robin Hobbs (CRH)
Project: Understanding male infertility in people with intersex conditions.
Paediatric cancer researcher awards
Paediatric cancer postdoctoral researcher award recipients
Dr Paul Daniel (CCR) and Terry Lim (CCR)
Project entitled: A novel phospho-proteomic signature to inform the use of clinically relevant inhibitors in paediatric high-grade glioma
Paediatric cancer senior researcher award recipients
Dr Jason Cain (CCR) and Associate Professor Robin Hobbs (CRH)
Project entitled: Overcoming therapy resistance in childhood osteosarcoma
In this article
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Dr Cristina Giogha
Innate Immune Responses to Infection -
Dr Daniel Garama
Signal Transduction in Cancer Biology -
Dr Sarah Moody
Testis Development and Male Germ Cell Biology -
Dr Kallyanashis Paul
Translational Tissue Engineering -
Dr Chunhua (Nick) Wan
Cancer Genetics and Functional Genomics -
Dr Hani Hosseini Far
Regulation of Interferon and Innate Signalling -
Dr Nhi Tran
Bioenergetics in Reproduction -
Dr Tayla Penny
Cell Therapies and Neuroinflammation -
Associate Professor Shayanti Mukherjee
Translational Tissue Engineering -
Associate Professor Michael Gantier
Nucleic Acids and Innate Immunity -
Dr Nicole de Weerd
Regulation of Interferon and Innate Signalling -
Professor Kate Loveland
Testis Development and Male Germ Cell Biology -
Dr Pouya Faridi
Translational Antigen Discovery -
Professor Vincent Harley
Sex Development -
Associate Professor Robin Hobbs
Germline Stem Cell Biology -
Dr Paul Daniel
Cancer Genetics and Functional Genomics -
Associate Professor Jason Cain
Developmental and Cancer Biology
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