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Fellowships awarded to talented early-career WA child health researchers 14 November 2025 Over $1.7 million has been awarded to 6 Western Australian early-career researchers committed to child health research via the Western Australian Early-Career Child Health Researcher (ECCHR) Fellowships Program. ECCHR is a Co-Funding Partnerships Program that is managed and administered by the BrightSpark Foundation (BrightSpark) and is currently funded through the Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund, BrightSpark and the Stan Perron Charitable Foundation. The Fellowships are designed to assist early-career researchers in WA become better qualified, experienced, and positioned for seeking longer termfunding for their child health research through avenues such as the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grants Emerging Leadership scheme. Further information about the ECCHR program can be found at theBrightSpark Foundation webpage. The Western A... -
PhD scholarships awarded to grow the clinician researcher workforce 05 November 2025 A total of $1.83 million has been awarded to 8 Western Australian health professionals to undertake Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) projects that aim to advance clinical practice and improve health outcomes for Western Australians. The Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund’s Clinician Researcher Training Program was designed to build the clinician researcher workforce by encouraging and supporting PhD studies. Pre-consultant medical and dental, allied health, nursing and midwifery professionals employed by eligible WA public health service providers, public-private partnership hospitals and private hospitals were eligible to apply. Scholarship recipients receive a support package including stipend and project costs for up to 3.5 years full-time or equivalent part-time, with funding contributions from Western Australian universities, hospital research foundations and oth... -
Funding awarded to strengthen WA early-and mid-career researchers' national success 05 November 2025 More than $4.8 million has been awarded to 25 Western Australian early- and mid-career researchers. The Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund’s WA Near Miss Awards (WANMA) Emerging Leaders program is designed to support WA researchers who narrowly missed out on securing a highly competitive National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant. The 2025-26 round of the WANMA Emerging Leaders program received a record high volume of applications from Western Australian early- and mid-career researchers. The program is providing 12-month grants and 3-year fellowships to eligible researchers who will be required to resubmit their improved applications to the NHMRC. Emerging Leaders grants provide recipients the possibility to improve areas of their NHMRC application that were assessed by the NHMRC peer review process as being improvable, and the Emergin... -
Fellows to further preventative health for priority populations 05 November 2025 A total of $1.6 million in Fellowships has been awarded to four Western Australian early-to-mid-career researchers. The 2025 EMCR Fellowships in Preventive Health for Priority Populations are co-funded by the Western Australian Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund and The Hospital Research Foundation Group. The Fellowships provide funding for up to 3-years to support high-calibre Western Australian early-to-mid-career health and medical researchers seeking to improve health outcomes for select priority population(s) in WA through co-design, trialling, and evaluation of innovative preventive health interventions. Recipients were assessed based on merit by The Hospital Research Foundation Groups’ Grant Selection Advisory Committee. Further information is available on The Hospital Research Foundation Group website. The 2025 EMCR Fellowships in Preventive Health for ... -
FHRI funding to improve the lives of people living with Cystic Fibrosis 05 November 2025 A total of $1.91 million has been awarded to 9 Western Australian Cystic Fibrosis researchers across 4 streams: Postgraduate Top-up Scholarships Research Innovation Grants Fellowships Collaborative Grant The 2025 WA Cystic Fibrosis Research Collaborative Program is co-funded by the Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund and Cystic Fibrosis WA, in collaboration with Conquer Cystic Fibrosis. The co-funding partnership supports researchers to explore innovative solutions to improve the lives of people affected by cystic fibrosis. Further information is available on the Cystic Fibrosis Western Australia website. Recipients were assessed on merit by the Australian Cystic Fibrosis Research Trust and administered by Cystic Fibrosis Australia. 2025 WA Cystic Fibrosis Research Collaborative Program recipients are shown below: Recipient ...
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