Grants and awards

2021 Cabrini Foundation Grant Round

Alan Jackson Research Grant

Associate Professor Philip Russo: The accuracy of coded hospital acquired complication data in identifying healthcare associated infections

Awarded $50,050

Supported by the Jackson Family

Cabrini Foundation Quality Improvement Grant

Associate Professor Natasha Michael / Dr Merlina Sulistio: Feasibility and acceptability of electronic capturing of patient reported symptoms in an ambulatory cancer setting

Awarded $15,000

Cabrini Foundation Quality Improvement Grant

Danielle Feil: Living well with secondary breast cancer - the clinical outcomes and patient perceptions of a combined exercise and educational support group

Awarded $15,000

Sambor Family Cabrini Foundation Research Grant

Dr Shehara Mendis / Dr Rebekah Engel: Personalising cancer medicine part II: Expanding the organoid program to include treatment-exposed metastatic colorectal cancer

Awarded $30,000

Supported by the Sambor Family

Cabrini Foundation Research Grant

Dr Tali Lang: 3D breast spheroids as a preclinical model for breast cancer research

Awarded $30,000

Cabrini Foundation Research Grant

Dr Simon Wilkins: Regulation of the immune response in the colorectal cancer tumour microenvironment and its role in patient outcomes

Awarded $30,000

Cabrini Foundation Research Grant

Dr Tomas Rozbroj: Psychocultural and practical factors related to Australian adults’ understandings and utilisation of information about overdiagnosis: a mixed-methods study

Awarded $29,740

Peter Meese Memorial Fund

Dr Tali Lang / Kirsten Seletto: Does automated home monitoring and management of patient-reported symptoms during systemic cancer treatment improve clinical outcomes?

Awarded $50,000

Supported by Dr Darren Lockie

Auric Innovation Grants

2021 Auric Innovation Grant

Josh Farrington: eCaptis

Awarded $200,000

Supported by Lee and Brian Johnstone

2022 Auric Innovation Grant

Professor Gary Richardson OAM: Development of a novel personalised therapy platform for metastatic breast cancer

Awarded $200,000

Supported by Lee and Brian Johnstone

2021 Cabrini Research Forum Poster Awards

Supported by I-MED Radiology

Research Student Scholarship or New

to Research Award

Dr Alan Xue: 68Ga-PSMA PET as a predictor of gleason pattern 4 and pathologic upgrading in intermediate risk prostate cancer

Laura Tan: Review of hospital acquired complications (runner up)

Higher Degree Research Student Award

Kelcey Bland: Adherence rates and tolerability to a supervised virtual exercise intervention for patients with cancer cachexia

Dr David Hennes: Pre-clinical evaluation of immune response to stem cell boosted degradable nanostructured surgical constructs for pelvic organ prolapse (runner up)

Early Career Researcher Award

Dr Dilys Leung: Enhanced epithelial-mesenchymal transition associated with platinum-resistant epithelial ovarian cancers

Dr Shehara Mendis: Biology and clinical implications of faecal occult blood test screen detected colorectal cancer (equal runner up)

Dr Suellyn Centauri: Treatment outcomes for metachronous colorectal cancer metastasis isolated to the liver (equal runner up)

Experienced Researcher Award

Dr Rebekah Engel: Modelling colorectal cancer using patientderived organoid lines to personalise cancer medicine

Dr Tali Lang: Patient-derived organoids: a new tool for predicting treatment responses in breast cancer (runner up)

Experienced Lead Researcher Award

Dr Simon Wilkins: Tissue slice assays as an intact colorectal microenvironment for next generation drug development

Associate Professor David Pook: Nivolumab plus cabozantinib (N+C) vs sunitinib for advanced renal cell carcinoma (aRCC): outcomes by baseline disease characteristics in the phase 3 CheckMate 9ER trial (runner up)

People’s Choice Award

David Chieng: Prone and supine 12 lead ECG comparisons for cardiac condition detection in patients on prone ventilation with COVID-19