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Research Grant Recipients 2023

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Research Grant Recipients 2023

Recipients awarded in 2023, commencing research projects in 2024

For any enquiries, please contact the Research Program team at [email protected]

Research Grants Listing

Award ID Researcher Administering Institute State Research Category Project Title
107214 Connie Wong Monash University VIC Biomedical Identify novel pharmacological approaches for limiting stroke-associated neuroinflammation and pneumonia
107323 Joshua Lewis Edith Cowan University WA Public Health Improving screening, understanding, prevention and treatment of abdominal aortic calcification
107328 Mirana Ramialison Murdoch Children's Research Institute VIC Biomedical Location, location, location: deciphering spatial gene regulatory networks in heart development and congenital heart disease
107335 Alexander Pinto La Trobe University VIC Biomedical Targeting the cellular and molecular drivers of cardiac fibrosis to enable prevention and treatment of heart failure
107171 Paul Lacaze (Honorary Fellowship)  Monash University VIC Public Health Realizing the potential of genomics to prevent coronary heart disease in Australia
107396 Kazuaki Negishi University of Sydney NSW Clinical REstoring microvascular circulation with Diagnostic Ultrasound with Contrast agEnt (REDUCE) Program

Award ID Researcher Administering Institute State Research Category Project Title
107170 Dennis Thiam Leong Wong Monash University VIC Clinical Novel Machine Learning Assessment of Coronary Microvascular Function Using CTCA and Angiography, and Evaluating the Effects of Dapaglifozin on Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction
107282 Sarah Zaman University of Sydney NSW Clinical Heart Disease in Women: Overcoming Health Inequities in Care
107286 Simon Foster (Honorary Fellowship) The Council of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research QLD Biomedical New therapeutic targets for fibrosis-related cardiac dysfunction

Award ID Researcher Administering Institute State Research Category Project Title
107174 Mark Dennis University of Sydney NSW Clinical Veno-arterial ECMO for Cardiac Arrest - improving appropriate patient selection, access, use and management
107180 Yen Chin Koay University of Sydney NSW Biomedical Unlocking the Potential of Cardiac Ketogenesis: NAD+ Replenishment as a Promising Therapeutic Approach for Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)
107192 James McNamara Murdoch Children's Research Institute VIC Biomedical Defining mechanisms of inherited cardiomyopathy using human pluripotent stem cell models
107210 Ellie Paige The Council of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research QLD Public Health Harnessing genetic information, big data and modelling to drive policy decisions and implementation to prevent cardiovascular disease
107244 Belinda Gray University of Sydney NSW Clinical Improving our understanding of athlete's heart through advanced phenotyping, genomics and multiomics profiling.

Award ID Researcher Administering Institute State Research Category Project Title
107153 Katharine McBride The Australian National University ACT Public Health Deepening understanding of the cultural, spiritual, emotional, social, behavioural and physiological drivers of cardiovascular protection and risk for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
107154 Rosemary Wyber (Honorary Fellowship)  The Australian National University ACT Health Services Reconceptualising the staging of rheumatic heart disease to be meaningful for consumers, professionals and health service delivery
107157 Jane Tiller (Honorary Fellowship) Monash University VIC Public Health Understanding barriers to the uptake of adult population genomic screening for familial hypercholesterolemia in Australia
107158 Matthew Ahmadi University of Sydney NSW Public Health Advancing cardiovascular disease prevention through novel physical activity patterns and wearables
107186 Mark Louis Vidallon The University of Melbourne VIC Biomedical Innovative bioengineering of nanodelivery systems with mRNA-based therapeutics for inflammatory and cardiovascular diseases
107196 Minh Duc Nguyen University of Sydney NSW Biomedical A novel multi-channel bioimpedance method to identify and characterize cardiac scar composition for guiding catheter ablation treatment of ventricular tachycardia
107295 David Chieng Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute VIC Clinical Cardiovascular outcomes of catheter ablation versus medical therapy in atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF): a randomized clinical trial (STALL HFpEF II)
107336 Dragana Dragoljevic The University of Melbourne VIC Biomedical Understanding how diets rich in salt promote atherosclerosis independent of hypertension
107355 Matthew Burrage The University of Queensland QLD Clinical Development of artificial intelligence-based contrast-free cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging techniques and comprehensive immunometabolic multi-omic phenotyping for the assessment of cardiac amyloidosis
107451 Md Ataur Rahman RMIT University VIC Biomedical Cyber-secured, battery-free, wireless ECG for on-spot and remote monitoring to prevent cardiovascular diseases
107146 Navid Freidoonimehr University of Adelaide SA Biomedical A novel computational fluid dynamic-based resistance index for diagnosis of Acetylcholine-induced microvascular spasm
107188 Daisy Coyle University of New South Wales NSW Public Health Understanding and addressing the burden of dietary risk factors after an acute myocardial infarction
107194 Cassandra Smith Edith Cowan University WA Public Health Better identification, understanding and prevention of advanced blood vessel disease in women
107125 Lachlan Dalli Monash University VIC Public Health Real-World Effectiveness of Medicines and Vaccines for Stroke Prevention
107133 Sarah Gutman Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute VIC Clinical Investigating Interventions and Outcomes in the Obesity-related Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction Phenotype
107254 Alexandra Murphy Institute for Breathing and Sleep VIC Clinical Cardio-Metabolic Optimisation in Patients with Breast Cancer: The SMARTBREAST 2.0 Trial

Award ID Researcher Administering Institute State Research Category Project Title
107659 Paolo D'Ambrosio Melbourne Health VIC Clinical Intensive Endurance Exercise and Cardiac Arrhythmias
107669 Benjamin Cailes The University of Melbourne VIC Clinical Cirrhotic Cardiomyopathy and Improving Cardiovascular Risk Prediction in Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation
107674 Joanna Gong The University of Melbourne VIC Clinical Advancing Effective Prevention and Management of the Cardiovascular Complications of Diabetes Using Multinational Big Data and Prospective Studies
107679 Stephanie Rowe The University of Melbourne VIC Clinical Imaging and genetic determinants of the small heart syndrome and its association with heart failure
107683 Jennifer Zhou Monash University VIC Clinical The role of clinical trials and invasive haemodynamics in improving outcomes for patients with aortic stenosis
107684 James Leung University of New South Wales NSW Clinical Percutaneous coronary intervention using assisted robotic technology in the management of coronary artery disease: a randomised controlled trial
107688 Sohaib Virk Melbourne Health VIC Clinical Mapping persistent atrial fibrillation: Identification of amplifier sites responsible for arrhythmia maintenance
107693 Jessica Yao Melbourne Health VIC Clinical Understanding the long-term cardiovascular consequences of preeclampsia
107703 Damien Wu The University of Melbourne VIC Clinical Surgical management of infective endocarditis in children
107718 Joseph O'Brien Monash University VIC Clinical Validation, assessment, and clinical translation of invasive and non-invasive measurements of coronary microvascular dysfunction and inflammation.
107721 Rudy Goh University of Adelaide SA Clinical HEAD-START 2: HypErtensive Augmentation During acute ischaemic STroke Assisting Reperfusion Therapies
107720 Jeremy William Monash University VIC Clinical The Syncope-Stopper study: a comparison of upfront pacing with standard care for high-risk patients with unexplained syncope.
107667 Nicholas D'Elia Monash University VIC Clinical Predicting Malignant Ventricular Arrhythmia Post Myocardial Infarction.

Award ID Researcher Administering Institute State Research Category Project Title
107728 Kylie Gwynne Heart Research Institute NSW Health Services How Should data from Wearable health Technology be embedded in primary Healthcare for Indigenous people (The SWiTcH Project)

Award ID Researcher Administering Institute State Research Category Project Title
107268 Priscila Pereira Machado Deakin University VIC Public Health A communication framework to increase consumer understanding of ultra-processed foods in Australia
107281 Louise Naylor University of Western Australia WA Biomedical Testing the feasibility of using heat therapy as a new treatment for patients with advanced heart failure
107340 Siew Lim Monash University VIC Health Services Integrating cultural strengths and opportunities to a cardiovascular disease and diabetes prevention program to facilitate broader translation and engagement among Chinese and Indian women who have had a history of GDM
107344 Katrina Binger La Trobe University VIC Biomedical Interrogating the therapeutic potential of macrophage pro-fibrotic function in vascular stiffening
107496 Leonard Kritharides University of Sydney NSW Clinical Mapping the platelet phenotype in elderly patients with coronary artery disease
107507 Eden Barrett University of New South Wales NSW Public Health GrainSwitch: An innovative online grocery shopping intervention to encourage healthy grain food choices among Australians at risk of cardiovascular disease
107597 Jon Oakhill St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research VIC Biomedical Testing a potent drug targeting AMP-activated protein kinase as a new treatment for atherosclerosis
107621 Sandhir Prasad RBWH Foundation QLD Clinical Machine Learning Incorporating Comprehensive Clinical, Angiographic and Echocardiographic Data to Predict Long-term Survival Following Myocardial Infarction
107638 Maria Jelinic La Trobe University VIC Biomedical Spatial multiomic analysis of the human coronary artery plaque
107261 Elizabeth Paratz Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute VIC Clinical Creating and using the world's largest multi-source cardiac arrest registry to discover causes of sudden cardiac death
107274 Richard Tan University of Sydney NSW Biomedical Enhancing the Performance and Longevity of Transcatheter Heart Valves with Nanoparticle-Based Surface Functionalization
107275 Alex Brown The Australian National University ACT Biomedical Does the augmentation of metabolomics within cardiovascular risk calculators increase the reliability of assessment with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations?
107313 Xiaowei Wang The University of Melbourne VIC Biomedical Novel mRNA-based therapeutics: An innovative controlled-release nanodelivery approach to treat inflammation-related cardiovascular diseases
107321 Robert Hume University of Sydney NSW Biomedical Preclinical study of a scalable off-the-shelf neovessel
107331 James Marangou Menzies School of Health Research NT Clinical AIRHD: Artificial Intelligence for automated echocardiography screening of Rheumatic Heart Disease in remote communities: development and clinical evaluation.
107338 Yugeesh Lankadeva The University of Melbourne VIC Biomedical Stratifying the risk of chronic kidney disease transitioning to acute kidney injury in patients with heart failure requiring heart surgery
107339 Adrian Elliott University of Adelaide SA Clinical Elevated Heart Rate Pacing to Improve Exercise Tolerance and Heart Failure Symptoms in Patients with Preclinical and Established Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: The PACE-UP Study
107341 Connie Henson Heart Research Institute NSW Health Services Wearables (Patches and Watches) for Early detection of Atrial Fibrillation and timely Referral for Indigenous Australians 55 years and older (WEAR IT)
107345 Sarah Zaman University of Sydney NSW Clinical Ketogenic Diet in Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial (The KETO-HF Trial)
107390 Amy Baxter La Trobe University VIC Biomedical Boosting efferocytosis to limit atherosclerotic plaque development and rupture
107395 Sophie Wiszniak University of South Australia SA Biomedical Mechanistic roles for cardiac neural crest cells in development of pulmonary stenosis.
107449 Janet Bray Monash University VIC Public Health Developing a national strategy for improving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes: using advanced simulation modelling to identify local interventions to save lives.
107478 Isuru Ranasinghe The University of Queensland QLD Clinical Outcomes of cardiovascular care in regional and remote Australian communities: Actionable data to drive policy and advocacy to reduce inequality.
107499 Ada Cheung The University of Melbourne VIC Clinical The impact of gender affirming hormone therapy on cardiac mass and function.
107541 Claudia Nold Monash University VIC Clinical Targeting Interleukin-1 to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease in Preterm Infants
107552 Barbora de Courten RMIT University VIC Clinical Evaluation of the effectiveness of integrating a scalable, evidenced-based, personalised, behaviour change digital health solution (Gro-AUS) within Australian Health Services for improving cardiovascular health in individuals with type 2 diabetes – a randomised controlled trial
107588 Paul Witting University of Sydney NSW Biomedical Developing therapeutic drugs that target the neutrophil-enzyme myeloperoxidase to improve heart failure amongst survivors of heart attack
107591 Sarah Aitken Sydney Local Health District NSW Health Services The TEAM-PAD study: A randomised controlled trial of multidisciplinary team-based guidance compared to usual vascular surgical care for secondary risk prevention of adverse cardiovascular and limb outcomes in patients with Peripheral Artery Disease.
107594 John Fraser The University of Queensland QLD Biomedical Addressing deficiencies of current ECMO with an innovative pulsatile flow technology (ADEPT)
107602 Barbara Kemp-Harper Monash University VIC Biomedical Targeting IRAP as a novel therapy for pulmonary hypertension
107610 David McGiffin The University of Queensland QLD Biomedical Mitochondrial Transplantation as a supplementary therapy for heart transplantation: A Novel Strategy to Enhance Donor Heart Function
107303 Matthew Snelson Monash University VIC Biomedical A kick in the guts: intestinal permeability and human hypertension

Award ID Researcher Administering Institute State Research Category Project Title
107681 Matthew Snelson Monash University VIC Biomedical Attend Strategies and Techniques for Analyzing Microbial Community Population Structures (STAMPS) course and visit potential collaborator at Boston University
107697 Laura Yeates The Garvan Institute of Medical Research NSW Clinical Visit to Peter van Tintelen, University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands
107704 Francine Marques Monash University VIC Biomedical Attending the Angiotensin Gordon Research Conference and visit to King’s College London
107712 Adrian Elliott University of Adelaide SA Clinical Haykowsky Lab Visit & Heart Rhythm Conference
107713 Monique Kilkenny Monash University VIC Health Services Visit to research facilities in United Kingdom (Kings College London) and Switzerland (University of Basel) and ESO Conference (Basel, Switzerland)
107716 Seana Gall University of Tasmania TAS Public Health Launching the World Stroke Organization/Lancet Neurology Commission on Stroke
107725 Sze Lin Yoong Deakin University VIC Public Health Visit to develop implementation science and system science expertise
107729 Abdul Rahman Ihdayhid Curtin University WA Clinical Visit to the Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics Laboratory of Professor Lakshmi Dasi, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

The following researchers have been awarded an innovation award for submitting the top innovative projects.

Shirley E Freeman Award

Dr Shirley E Freeman AM (1924 - 2014) was the first female to receive funding from the Heat Foundation, receiving £1250 in 1961 for her project “Mechanisms of respiratory control in cardiac muscle”. Her work with Dr Paul Fantl on the mechanism of blood clotting led to the development of warfarin.

This award was established in 2021 and is given to the two most innovative female fellowships. This year the award has been offered to:

  • Rosemary Wyber, The Australian National University 2023 Postdoctoral Fellowship Reconceptualising the staging of rheumatic heart disease to be meaningful for consumers, professionals and health service delivery
  • Mirana Ramialison, Murdoch Children's Research Institute 2023 Future Leader Fellowship Location, location, location: deciphering spatial gene regulatory networks in heart development and congenital heart disease

Paul Korner Innovation Award

In memory of Professor Paul Korner, who passed away in 2012, this award is in appreciation of the positive impact his work in tackling cardiovascular disease had on many lives.

This award was established in 2012 and is given to the two most innovative male fellowships. This year the award has been offered to:

  • Mark Louis Vidallon, The University of Melbourne 2023 Postdoctoral Fellowship Innovative bioengineering of nanodelivery systems with mRNA-based therapeutics for inflammatory and cardiovascular diseases
  • Simon Foster, The Council of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research 2023 Future Leader Fellowship New therapeutic targets for fibrosis-related cardiac dysfunction

Ross Hohnen Award for Research Excellence

In memory of Mr. Ross Hohnen AM, OBE who passed away in 2003, the Heart Foundation awards the “Ross Hohnen Award recognising Research Excellence” to encourage innovation in cardiovascular research. Ross Hohnen was instrumental in establishing the Heart Foundation in 1959.

This award recognises the most outstanding and innovative Vanguard Grant application. This year the award has been offered to:

  • Maria Jelinic, La Trobe University Spatial multiomic analysis of the human coronary artery plaque

Researcher Administering Institute State Research Category Project Title
Hannah Stevens Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute VIC  Public Health, Clinical  Mapping Heart Health: Geographical Disparities in Atrial Fibrillation Treatment and Outcomes
Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon University of New South Wales NSW Public Health, Health Services Trajectories for chronic disease management plans use in primary care in adults with cardiovascular disease
Feby Savira Deakin University VIC Health Services Investigating Telehealth Use in Vulnerable Populations At Risk of Cardiovascular Disease 
Amalie Dyda  University of Queensland QLD Public Health, Health Services  Using artificial intelligence to learn predictors of success in primary care chronic disease management plans
Kristen Glenister University of Melbourne VIC Public Health Understanding rurality and socioeconomic disadvantage inequities in cardiovascular health and costs

Last updated23 May 2024