MRFF funding to support health initiatives at the University of Melbourne

Congratulations to researchers and their teams from University of Melbourne and affiliates who have been allocated funding as part of several Medical Future Fund projects (MRFF) announced in the Federal Budget.

Successful MRFF Clinician Researchers: Applied Research in Health

• Professor James McCarthy, Peter Doherty Institute and University of Melbourne: CURE-NG: A human challenge model to develop new treatments for gonorrhoea
• Professor Lena Sanci, Melbourne Medical School Department of General Practice: Strengthening Care for Rural Children: stepped wedge trial in primary care
• Associate Professor Yasmin Jayasinghe, Royal Women’s Hospital and University of Melbourne, the Australian New Zealand Oncofertility Clinical Trials Network
• Dr Clare Whitehead, Royal Women’s Hospital and University of Melbourne: Transforming Clinical Research to Improve Outcomes for Preterm Infants
• Associate Professor Kelly Allott, Centre for Youth Mental Health and University of Melbourne: Validating Cognitive Screening for First-episode Psychosis, CogScreen.

Congratulations also to Professor of Indigenous Health Cath Chamberlain who has been awarded funds from the 2021 Improving the Health and Wellbeing of Indigenous Mothers and Babies program for the project Replanting the Birthing Trees to Support First Nations Parents and Babies.