Passe & Williams Foundation is proud to announce the 17 Garnett Passe & Rodney Williams Awardees beginning their projects in Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery for 2025.
With over $4.5m in support from the Foundation, these incredible people are undertaking projects across otology, vestibular, audiology and head and neck cancer.
To learn more about each Awardee and their project, click the links below.
Research Scholarship
- Mardi Gammon | The University of Melbourne
Reconnecting the ears to the brain
Junior Fellowship
- Dr. Sharon Clark | The Kids
Investigating the reduced NTHi immune response in children with otitis media
- Dr. Yingjie Hu | The University of Melbourne
Developing a versatile platform for inner ear drug delivery
Mid-Career Fellowship
- Dr. Jeremy Pinyon | The University of Sydney
Pivoting cochlear implant gene therapy using RNA technologies
Conjoint Grant
Special Project Grant
Academic Surgeon-Scientist Research Scholarship
- Dr. Nayellin Reyes-Chicuellar | The University of Western Australia
Sensory Gating Dysfunction and Tinnitus: Pathophysiology and Therapeutic Modulation with rTMS
- Dr. Ashlee Kimball | Flinders University
Drug Repurposing for Radiosensitisation of Head and Neck Cancer Cells
- Dr. Akila Wijesekera | Griffith University
Oral Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Prevalence and Persistence in the High-Risk Demographic
Academic Surgeon-Scientist Fellowship
- Dr. Sathish Paramasivan | Massachusetts Eye and Ear infirmary, Harvard University, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University, The University of Adelaide
Academic skull base surgery fellowships
