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The Big Idea and
Sydney Research Awards
Dr Joe Dusseldorp won $45,000 in pre-seed
funding at 2022 The Big Idea for his antispasticity micro-implant which aims to help
patients living with muscle spasticity, like
cerebral palsy, to regain muscle tone and control.
He was one of five finalists who competed for the
pre-seed funding, plus $25,000 in professional
services from IDE Group.
Dr Samson Dowland won the People’s Choice
Award 2022 for his idea to develop a new nonhormonal contraceptive to revolutionise women’s
reproductive health. Sam also won $5,000 worth
of IDE’s services.
Dr Joanneke Maitz, winner of the 2022 Annual
Health Research Infrastructure Award is an
early career researcher award that recognises
an individual with high research potential in
basic science research. Dr Maitz’ work titled;
Rejuvenating patients’ own skin cells for the
treatment of burn injuries.
Min Jiat Teng, winner of the 2022 Clinician
Researcher Scholarship is designed to
encourage and support clinicians seeking to
pursue a clinical research career. Min Jiat’s work
titled; on evaluating a virtual clinic for people
with simple fractures.
Daniel John Babekuhi, winner of the 2022
Health Informatics Research Scholarship,
supported by VOIP, aims to encourage research
into how clinicians, academics and researchers
can work with health information and
communication technology to improve delivery
of care and outcomes for patients. Daniel’s work
titled; AI-driven innovations for sustaining organs
outside the body for up to two weeks between
transplantation.
Professor Richard Scolyer, Associate Professor
Alexander Menzies and Professor Georgina
Long, winners of the 2022 Research Excellence
Award for Best Publication recognising the best
publication in a high impact journal for their
work titled ‘Pathological response and survival
with neoadjuvant therapy in melanoma: a pooled
analysis from the International Neoadjuvant
Melanoma Consortium’.
Professor Cathie Sherrington, Institute for
Musculoskeletal Health winner of the 2022
Research Supervisor Award recognising the
outstanding achievements of a research supervisor.
Dr Rebekah Ahmed, Staff Specialist Neurologist,
RPA and Brain and Mind Centre winner of the 2022
Young Researcher Award recognising outstanding
performance from an early career researcher.
Niv Vigder, Honours Student, The University
of Sydney winner of the inaugural 2022
Cardiovascular Postgraduate Scholarship,
supported by the Heart Research Institute and
designed to encourage postgraduate students
at University of Sydney undertaking research
into the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of
cardiovascular diseases.
Dr Seshika Ratwatte, PhD Candidate, The
University of Sydney, winner of the inaugural 2022
Emerging Cardiovascular Researcher - Education
Scholarship, also supported by the Heart Research
Institute, was awarded to an emerging researcher
to pursue educational opportunities.
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