Clinical Investigator Awards

Establishment grants for Clinical Investigators have been initiated by the Foundation in order to stimulate and encourage clinical research in Australia. In particular the grants are intended to assist new investigators to establish their research programs at the time of the difficult transition from doctoral and post-doctoral training posts to their first definitive clinical positions in an academic environment. Clinical Investigators will be awarded a once only grant of $90,000.

Eligible applicants will be medical graduates or graduates of other clinical disciplines who have completed both their clinical and research training which will normally be at doctoral level and are commencing their first definitive clinical position, or have been in such a post for no more than 36 months on 1 May of the year of application.

Applicants should be actively engaged in clinical work and pursuing health and medical research in a university clinical department, a teaching hospital, a clinical research unit of a research institute or in an academic general practice setting.The applications will be judged predominantly on the quality of the applicant’s track record and career achievements to date. The quality of a brief research proposal will also be taken into account.

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Current recipients of the Clinical Investigator Award

2024
Dr Wan Tinn Teh
The Royal Women’s Hospital (VIC)
Dr Yasmine Ali Abdelhamid
The University of Melbourne (VIC)
Dr Brendan Nolan
The Princess Alexandra Hospital (VIC)
Dr Bradley Gardiner
Monash University (VIC)

2023
Dr Elizabeth Paratz
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute (VIC)
Dr Anna Balabanski
Royal Melbourne Hospital (VIC)
Dr Prasanti Kotagiri
Monash University (VIC)
Dr Cecilia Jin
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (VIC)
Dr Claire Gordon
Austin Health (VIC)

2022
Dr Hayley Barnes
Monash University (Vic)
Dr Harriet Gee
Children’s Medical Research Institute (NSW)
Dr Matthew Hare
Menzies School of Health Research (NT)
A/Professor Nitesh Nerlekar
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
Dr Hannah Stevens
Alfred Hospital (Vic)

Past recipients of the Clinical Investigator Award can be found in the Alumni section.