We Need Your Help

In order to keep funding groundbreaking, lifesaving research projects, we require your continued support.

Corporate Partners

1. Private Practice Trust Fund Research Support Grants

$50,000 support grants awarded to projects of significant merit, clinical relevance and with a track record of research.

Head of Department	Clinical Department	Project Title
Associate Professor Graeme Macdonald	Gastroenterology	Obesity-related inflammation and insulin resistance in Chronic Liver Disease.
Associate Professor Adrian Nowitzke	Neurosurgery	Comparing the outcome of open decompression with minimally invasive decompression for symptomatic lumbar canal stenosis: a pilot study.
Dr Glenn Francis	Pathology	An analysis of the pathological characteristics of a proven Epidemiological Cluster of Breast Cancers – ABC Station Patients
Professor David Johnson	Nephrology	Randomised Trial of IV versus Oral Iron Supplements for Post-Transplant Anaemia in Renal Transplant recipients.
Associate Professor Chris Joyce	Intensive Care	Continuation of funding for a Research Coordinator.
Dr Phillip Vecchio	Rheumatology	Arthritis Complicating Inflammatory Bowel Disease – prevalence and genetic predictors.
Dr Julie Mundy	Cardiothoracic Surgery	Identification of virulence factors expressed by S. aureus during biofilm growth in endocarditis patients.

2. Project Funding

Recipient	Department	Funding	Title
Professor Thomas Marwick	Centre for Clinical Research Excellence (CCRE)	$30,000	CCRE in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases, Cardiac MRI sub-study.
Professor Mike Roberts	Therapeutics Research Unit	$30, 000	To support existing grants, infrastructure used for PAH research, new initiatives with clinicians at PAH and training of future researchers.
Professor John Prins	Diamantina Institute - Metabolic Research Unit	30000	The role of FOXO Transcription Factors in Glucocorticoid-induced insulin.
Dr Devinder Gill	Cancer Collaborative Group	$100,000	Molecular prognostication in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.
Professor Tom Gonda	Diamantina Institute - Cancer Research Unit	$100,000	Genome-wide screening for novel genetic lesions in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
Professor John Upham	Respiratory Medicine -Princess Alexandra Hospital/University of Queensland	$50,000	Research in Chronic Respiratory Disease.

3. Research Grants

$10,000 provided for research grants of scientific quality, track record and innovation funded by the PA Research Foundation

Recipient	Department	Title
Dr Xaiosong Lui	Diamantina Institute	Studying the function of antigen experienced CD4+GITR+T cells.
Dr Andrew Barbour	Diamantina Institute	Identification and characterisation of Cancer Stem Cells in Gastric Cancer.
Professor Ranjeny Thomas	Diamantina Institute	Phase I trial of autologous dendritic cells to induce antigen specific tolerance in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Dr Emma Duncan	Diamantina Institute	Does bone regulate energy metabolism in humans? Evidence from a clinical cohort of obese and non-obese individuals.
Dr Elizabeth Powell	Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology	Investigation of factors that inhibit Interferon-alpha signalling in Chronic Hepatitis C.
Dr James Sharman	Centre for Clinical Research Excellence	Effect of plasma triglycerides on the central haemodynamic response to exercise.

4. Training Grants

Recipient	Department	Title
Dr Bennett Franjic	Centres for Clinical Research Excellence	Role of Autonomic Neuropathy in Diabetic Heart Disease.
Dr Liza Phillips	Diamantina Institute	Adiponectin – role in modulating postprandial inflammatory, metabolic and cardiovascular stress.
Dr Cynthia Ong	Centre for Clinical Research	Androgen deficiency in obese men.
Dr Stuart McPherson	Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology	An assessment of the role of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in the pathogenesis of HCV-related liver injury.

5. New Appointment Grants

$50,000 from the PA Research Foundation for a new research program on PAH Campus

Recipient	Department	Title
Professor Colleen Nelson	Department of Urology	Identify Biomarkers to discriminate Indolent from aggressive Prostate Cancer and mechanisms of Therapeutic Resistance.
Professor David McIntyre	School of Medicine	Placental and adipose tissue inflammatory markers and insulin resistance in normal and obese pregnancy.
Professor Leanne Aitken	Chair, Critical Care Nursing	Health status and economic outcomes of critically ill trauma patients.
Dr Maree Ferguson	Department of Nutrition and Dietetics	Management of patients with malnutrition.

6. PA Foundation Scholarships

Recipient	Scholarship	Funding	Title
Angela Vivanti	Allied Health	$2,500	Screening of Dehydration in older people admitted to hospital.
Angela Vivanti	Allied Health	$2,500	Nutritional status, survival and morbidity amongst Haemodialysis patients.
Leanne Passier	Allied Health	$2,500	Physiotherapist observation of cervical alignment in a sitting position.
Linda Bradbury	Nursing Travel	$5,000	Disease outcome in Ankylosing Spondyltis.
Dr James Sharman	Medical Travel	$5,000	Paradoxical reduction in Pulse Wave Reflection following maximal exercise in patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: association with exercise central blood pressure.
Matthew Horden	Medical Travel	$5,000	Use of diastolic tissue velocity and standard parameters to assess treatment response in subclinical myocardial disease – a randomized controlled trial of lifestyle intervention in type 2 diabetes.

PA Research Foundation
Building 1, Princess Alexandra Hospital, 199 Ipswich Road, Woolloongabba Qld 4102
Phone: 07 3176 2359 Fax: 07 3176 7303