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  • Conjoint Grant
    Perfecting new drug targets for head and neck cancer

    Professor John Silke
    & Doctor Annette Lim

    The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

  • Research Scholarship
    Building a non-coding RNA system biology network to identify mechanism pathways in oral cancers

    Sarah Stapleton

    University of Technology Sydney

  • Senior Fellowship
    Developing smart next-generation therapeutics for chronic rhinosinusitis

    Professor Sarah Vreugde

    The University of Adelaide

  • Research Scholarship
    Recurrent Positional Vertigo: Separation of central and peripheral origins by nystagmus profile

    Dr. Nicholas Yang

    The University of Sydney

  • Mid-Career Fellowship
    Targeting cancer associated fibroblasts to overcome immune cell exclusion in head and neck cancer

    Dr. Janin Chandra

    The University of Queensland

  • Junior Fellowship
    A new cochlear implant signal processing strategy for mitigating neural dead regions

    Dr. Tommy Peng

    The Bionics Institute of Australia

  • Junior Fellowship
    Inner ear organoids for the study of human hearing and balance

    Dr. Jacqueline Ogier

    University of Melbourne

  • Junior Fellowship
    Exploring a novel approach for preventing otitis media

    Dr. Brianna Atto

    University of Tasmania

  • Clinical Research Grant
    The diagnostic utility of laryngeal reflexes in infants

    Associate Professor Catherine Sinclair

    Monash University

  • Clinical Research Grant
    Proteomic assay of upper airway secretions in diagnosing aetiology of inflammatory laryngeal disease

    Dr. Anthony Rotman

    Monash University

  • Conjoint Grant
    High Resolution Imaging for Head and Neck and Skull Base

    Dr. Ryan Sommerville
    & Professor Markus Barth

    Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital

  • Conjoint Grant
    The "POSTT Study: Validation of a novel home delivered paediatric OSA screening test"

    Dr. Paul Paddle
    & Professor Yogesan Kanagasingam

    Monash University

  • Conjoint Grant
    Developing a multi-omic, high-dimensional assessment of head and neck cancer

    Dr. Arutha Kulasinghe
    & Associate Professor Brett Hughes

    The University of Queensland

  • Conjoint Grant
    Selecting patients for sleep surgery using novel physiological and surgical phenotyping

    Professor (Andrew) Simon Carney
    & Professor Peter Catcheside

    Flinders University

  • Conjoint Grant
    Bio-printed adipose derived stem cells for engineering vascularized bone tissue within an in vivo bioreactor

    Dr. D S Abdullah Al Maruf
    & Associate Professor Payal Mukherjee

    Chris O'Brien Lifehouse

  • Academic Surgeon-Scientist Fellowship
    The Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Academic Surgeon-Scientist Fellowship (2023)

    Dr. Nathan Creber

    The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

  • Special Project Grant
    Beyond Science

    Associate Professor Payal Mukherjee
    & Professor Gordon Wallace

    Royal Prince Albert Institute of Academic Surgery

  • Academic Surgeon-Scientist Research Scholarship (ASSRS)
    To advance human precision diagnostics of hearing loss

    Dr. William Shute

    The University of Melbourne

  • Academic Surgeon-Scientist Research Scholarship (ASSRS)
    Drug repurposing for treatment of head and neck cancer: enhancing metformin anti-cancer activity

    Dr. Lucy Huang

    Flinders University

  • Conjoint Grant
    A novel assay for early detection of minimal residual disease in head and neck cancer patients.

    Professor Chamindie Punyadeera
    & Professor Liz Kenny

    Griffith University

  • Conjoint Grant
    Whole cochlear imaging - tackling key questions for safe inner ear surgery

    Professor Stephen O'Leary
    & Dr. Christofer Bester

    The University of Melbourne

  • Conjoint Grant
    Acoustic drug delivery for CRS treatment

    Professor Peter-John Wormald
    & Dr. Oveis Pourmehran

    The University of Adelaide

  • Junior Fellowship
    Breaking antibiotic resistance in otopathogens

    Dr. Stephanie Neville

    University of Melbourne

  • Junior Fellowship
    Defining the therapeutic potential of eosinophils in head and neck cancer

    Dr. Carly Whyte

    University of South Australia

  • Mid-Career Fellowship
    Detection and treatment of biofilms in chronic rhinosinusitis

    Dr. Kristi Biswas

    The University of Auckland

  • Mid-Career Fellowship
    Developing improved therapeutics for treating otitis media and preventing need for repeat surgery

    Dr. Ruth Thornton

    University of Western Australia

  • Research Scholarship
    New clinical applications of the vestibulo-ocular reflex

    Alyssa Dyball

    The University of Sydney

  • Clinical Research Grant
    Intratympanic corticosteroid therapy for idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss

    Dr. Benjamin Wei

    University of Melbourne

  • Research Scholarship
    Differentiating vestibular neuritis from stroke in the emergency department

    Dr. Chao Wang

    The University of Sydney

  • Academic Surgeon-Scientist Research Scholarship (ASSRS)
    The efficacy of topical therapy following surgery for patients with chronic rhinosinusitis

    Dr. Sam Hale

    University of Auckland

  • Clinical Research Grant
    Laryngology Outcomes – Evaluating the benefits of injection laryngoplasty on swallowing

    Dr. Theodore Athanasiadis

    Flinders University

  • Junior Fellowship
    Objective assessment of hearing ability in hearing impaired infants

    Dr. Darren Mao

    Bionics Institute

  • Junior Fellowship
    Using Artificial Intelligence to Diagnose Vestibular Disease

    Dr. Allison Young

    Sydney Local Health District

  • Research Scholarship
    DrumBeat.ai: Artificial Intelligence to Triage Rural and Remote Paediatric Indigenous Ear Disease

    Dr. Al-Rahim Habib

    The University of Sydney

  • Senior Fellowship
    Delivering hearing therapeutics to the clinic

    Associate Professor Andrew Wise

    Bionics Institute

  • Special Project Grant
    The MACRO Programme: the microbiome analysis

    Professor Richard Douglas

    The University of Auckland

  • Overseas Clinical Fellowship
    Stanford University Sleep Surgery Fellowship

    Dr. Vikram Padhye

    Stanford University

  • Conjoint Grant
    Detecting and ameliorating the impact of neural dead regions in cochlear implant users

    Professor Colette McKay
    & Dr. Markus Dahm

    The University of Melbourne

  • Conjoint Grant
    A Personalised Therapeutic Plan or S. Aureus Recalcitrant CRS

    Professor Alkis Psaltis
    & Dr. Mahnaz Ramezanpour

    The University of Adelaide

  • Junior Fellowship
    The effect of fluid volume on vestibular function and adaptation in Meniere's disease

    Dr. Jacob Pogson

    Sydney Local Health District

  • Junior Fellowship
    A novel, preclinical approach to investigate peripheral vestibular dysfunction, in vivo.

    Dr. Christopher Pastras

    The University of Sydney

  • Academic Surgeon-Scientist Fellowship
    Stanford-Auckland Scientist-Rhinologist Fellowship

    Dr. Raymond Kim

    Stanford University (USA) and The University of Auckland (NZ)

  • Conjoint Grant
    Self-assembling cellular nerve bridges for repair of peripheral nerve injuries

    Associate Professor Jenny Ekberg
    & Dr. Brent McMonagle

    Griffith University

  • Conjoint Grant
    Medical Therapy For Sleep-Disordered Breathing In Children: MIST-SMART

    Associate Professor Kirsten Perrett
    & Associate Professor Gillian Nixon

    Murdoch Children's Research Institute

  • Conjoint Grant
    Identification of predictive biomarkers for immune checkpoint blockade in head and neck cancer

    Arutha Kulasinghe
    & Brett Hughes

    Queensland University of Technology

  • Research Scholarship
    Predicting the development of oral cancer

    Jarryd Boath

    Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

  • Conjoint Grant
    VCCC Program for Organoid-Informed Precision Medicine for Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma

    Mr Tim Iseli
    & Associate Professor Oliver Sieber

    Melbourne Health

  • Conjoint Grant
    Probiotics to prevent otitis media in Australian Indigenous Infants

    Dr. Andrea Coleman
    & Dr. Diane Maresco-Pennisi

    The University of Queensland

  • Special Project Grant
    Fourth Edition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ear Health Manual

    Professor Harvey Coates

    Telethon Kids Institute

  • Academic Surgeon-Scientist Research Scholarship (ASSRS)
    Determining the effect of barrier dysfunction on mucosal inflammation in chronic rhinosinusitis

    Dr. Stephen Shih-Teng Kao

    The University of Adelaide

  • Research Scholarship
    Detecting and removing intra-cochlear blood during cochlear implantation to preserve hearing

    Tayla Razmovski

    The University of Melbourne

  • Clinical Research Grant
    Home delivery home oximetry for rural children with obstructive sleep apnoea: a feasibility study

    Dr. Paul Paddle

    Monash Health

  • Clinical Research Grant
    Targeted Screening for Congenital Cytomegalovirus-related Hearing loss in Western Australia

    Dr. Jafri Kuthubutheen

    Perth Children's Hospital

  • Conjoint Grant
    A novel treatment for S. aureus recalcitrant chronic rhinosinusitis

    Professor Peter-John Wormald
    & Professor Sarah Vreugde

    The University of Adelaide

  • Conjoint Grant
    3D Printing for Reconstruction of Mandible in Head and Neck Cancer

    Dr. Elizabeth Sigston
    & Dr. Andrey Molotnikov

    Monash University

  • Conjoint Grant
    Using computer models, virtual surgery and 3D Printing to improve outcomes in sino-nasal surgery

    Dr. Kiao Inthavong
    & Clinical Associate Professor Narinder Singh

    Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

  • Conjoint Grant
    Progression of hearing performance following cochlear implant neurotrophin gene augmentation

    Professor Gary Housley
    & Honorary Clinical Associate Professor Cathy Birman

    University of New South Wales

  • Conjoint Grant
    “New-era” for personalized health care for Head and Neck cancer treatment

    Dr. Jazmina Gonzalez Cruz
    & Associate Professor Christopher Perry

    The University of Queensland

  • Academic Surgeon-Scientist Research Scholarship (ASSRS)
    A longitudinal study of the natural progression of the chronic rhinosinusitis microbiome in patients undergoing current standard medical and surgical treatment

    Dr. Tary Yin

    The University of Auckland

  • Clinical Research Grant
    Multimodal assessment of perineural spread in Head & Neck Cancer and development of a Head & Neck Research Unit

    Dr. Ryan Sommerville

    Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital

  • Research Scholarship
    Tumour-derived extracellular vesicles (EV) as a novel biomarker in head and neck cancer patients.

    Bella Nguyen

    The University of Western Australia

  • Academic Surgeon-Scientist Research Scholarship (ASSRS)
    The optimisation of intranasal drug delivery in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis

    Dr. Joey Siu

    The University of Auckland

  • Conjoint Grant
    Vestibular dysfunction in type II diabetes

    Dr. Rebecca Lim
    & Dr. Thomas Wellings

    The University of Newcastle

  • Academic Surgeon-Scientist Research Scholarship (ASSRS)
    The host-microbe interface in chronic rhinosinusitis

    Dr. Sathish Paramasivan

    University of Adelaide

  • Conjoint Grant
    Mild Matters: Randomised controlled trial of early amplification for bilateral mild hearing loss

    Dr. Valerie Sung
    & Dr. Teresa Ching

    Murdoch Children's Research Institute

  • Conjoint Grant
    Metagenomic analysis of the CRS sinonasal microbiome

    Professor Richard Douglas
    & Dr. David Waite

    The University of Auckland

  • Academic Surgeon-Scientist Research Scholarship (ASSRS)
    Lymphotropic magnetic iron-core nano tracers for sentinel lymph node mapping in oral squamous cell carcinoma

    Dr. Giri Krishnan

    University of Adelaide

  • Conjoint Grant
    Improving the spatial selectivity of cochlear implants using light-based stimulation

    Dr. Rachael Richardson
    & Professor Stephen O'Leary

    Bionics Institute

  • Conjoint Grant
    Improving language development outcomes in deaf children

    Professor Colette McKay
    & Dr. Robert Briggs

    Bionics Institute

  • Conjoint Grant
    Exploring regeneration of hair cells as a potential treatment for hearing loss

    Professor Marcus Atlas
    & Dr. Samuel McLenachan

    Ear Science Institute

  • Conjoint Grant
    Drug therapy to repair cochlear synaptopathy

    Associate Professor Andrew Wise
    & Dr. Sherryl Wagstaff

    Bionics Institute

  • Conjoint Grant
    Development of superior sentinel lymph node staging procedures in head and neck cancer using magnetic tracers

    Professor Benjamin Thierry
    & Dr. Andrew Foreman

    University of South Australia

  • Academic Surgeon-Scientist Research Scholarship (ASSRS)
    Developing new diagnostic and prognostic breath analysis tools for head and neck cancer

    Dr. Nuwan Dharmawardana

    Flinders University

  • Conjoint Grant
    Circulating tumour cells in head and neck cancers

    Associate Professor Chamindie Punyadeera
    & Professor Liz Kenny

    Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation

  • Conjoint Grant
    Event Monitoring for Acute Vertigo: A Vestibular Holtor Monitor

    Associate Professor Miriam Welgampola
    & Dr Jonathan Kong

    University of Sydney

  • Research Training Fellowship
    The persistence of the bacterial multispecies microbiome during otitis media

    Dr. Alexandra Tikhomirova

    University of Adelaide

  • Conjoint Grant
    Efficacy of antibiotic and corticosteroid treatment for chronic rhinosinusitis

    Associate Professor Richard Douglas
    & Associate Professor Mike Taylor

    The University of Auckland

  • Grant-In-Aid (Supplementation)
    Evaluation of novel electrode materials for improved cochlear implant performance

    Professor Rob Shepherd

    Bionics Institute

  • Overseas Clinical Fellowship
    The Singapore Rhinology Fellowship

    Dr. Brett Levin

    Singapore General Hospital

  • Conjoint Grant
    Measuring vestibular sensitivity

    Professor Ian Curthoys
    & Professor Michael Halmagi

    University of Sydney

  • Senior/Principal Research Fellowship
    Using 3D Fluorescence Imaging to Investigate Animal Models of Ménière’s Disease

    Dr Daniel Brown

    Curtin University

  • Grant-In-Aid (Supplementation)
    Australian Temporal Bone Bank

    Dr Markus Christoph Dahm
    & Stephen O'Leary

    University of Melbourne