Meet the FY24 Awardees

Passe & Williams Foundation is proud to announce successful applicants from its most recent Award Round. Applying for our competitive Awards, these Awardees showed excellence in their desire to improve healthcare in the field of Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT):

Junior Fellowship

• Dr. Erin Brazel | The University of Adelaide
  Developing a new vaccine to prevent bacterial ear infections
• Dr. Chameera Ekanayake Weeramange | Griffith University
  Personalizing treatment for p16 positive OPC patients using circulating tumour cell cultures
• Dr. Anu Sabu | Bionics Institute
  Investigating how combined stimulation improves hearing outcomes for the partially deaf

Mid-Career Fellowship

• Dr. Xiao Liu | The University of Wollongong
  Development of Biomimetic Scaffolds for Accelerated Osteogenesis
• Dr. Demi Gao | Bionics Institute
  Enabling improved cochlear implant programming for infants: an objective method based on fNIRS

Conjoint Grant

• Professor Richard Douglas & Dr. Kristi Biswas | The University of Auckland
  Tackling antimicrobial resistance in chronic rhinosinusitis
• Professor Peter Friedland & Dr. Pedro Amarante Andrade | The University of Western Australia
  Targeted Non-Invasive Electrical Stimulation to Treat Vocal Cord Paresis
• Professor Peter Leedman & Dr. Stephanie Flukes
  Novel hydrogel-based delivery of a new RNA-therapeutic to treat oral cancer
• Mr. Tim Iseli & A/Prof. Oliver Sieber | Melbourne Health
  Advancing Novel T Cell Therapy Approaches for Oral Cancer.

Applications for the Senior Fellowship will open again for the FY25 Award Round.

For our discrete Awards (those that may be applied for outside of the Award Round), we are delighted to announce Dr. James Johnston as our latest Academic Surgeon-Scientist Fellowship Awardee. James’ fellowship will focus on Paediatrics/Laryngology, and see him travel to London, UK and Sydney, Australia, before returning home to Auckland to complete his Award.

Congratulations to our latest Awardees! Learn more about them and their projects over on our Awardees and Awarded Projects pages.