|
|
Project Name
|
|
Grant Recipient
|
|
Grant Amount
|
|
Term
|
|
|
|
2010
|
|
|
Protracted bacterial bronchitis in children: what is the natural history and role of innate immunity dysfunction?
|
|
Qld Children's Medical Research Institute (Previously RCH Foundation)
|
|
$150,000
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
|
Impact parental work on mental health in Australian children
|
|
Curtin Institute of Technology
|
|
$160,000
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
The development of the Childhood Health Orientation Index (CHOI)
|
|
Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania
|
|
$56,780
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
|
Inflammation of the fetal skin - a potential mediator of preterm birth?
|
|
University of Western Australia
|
|
$90,000
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
Generation of Sensory Nerves from Friedreich's Ataxia Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines
|
|
The University of Melbourne
|
|
$153,637
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
|
Developing Therapies For Mitochondrial Energy Generation Diseases
|
|
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
|
|
$121,708
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
Protecting babies from the effects of whooping cough and influenza: a study of maternal vaccination and an educational intervention to improve uptake.
|
|
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS), located at CHW
|
|
$117,844
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
|
Oxygen therapy for the preterm infant - optimising delivery
|
|
Ritchie Centre for Baby Health Research, Monash Institute of Medical Research
|
|
$81,800
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
Defining mechanisms underlying skeletal muscle development and muscular dystrophy
|
|
Deakin University
|
|
$156,706
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
|
Total 2010
|
|
|
|
$1,088,475
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Project Name
|
|
Grant Recipient
|
|
Grant Amount
|
|
Term
|
|
|
|
2009
|
|
|
Improving the management and outcomes for infants hospitalised with bronchiolitis
|
|
Menzies School of Health Research
|
|
$132,644
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
|
Ventilatory Control in Paediatric obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA)
|
|
The University of Sydney
|
|
$66,250
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
Effects of perinatal vitamin D status on maternal and infant health
|
|
Women's and Children's Health Research Institute
|
|
$79,286
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
|
Teaching emotion recognition skills to children with autism
|
|
Monash University
|
|
$90,953
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
A randomised trial comparing post-operative behavious and pain after midazolam or pregabalin premedication in children having day case surgery
|
|
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
|
|
$28,965
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
|
Hearing the voices of Aboriginal children in urban areas about their health and wellbeing - strengths, challenges, and solutions
|
|
University of Melbourne
|
|
$79,565
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
A New Diagnostic and therapeutic approach to the management of infantile gastro-oesophageal reflux
|
|
Women's & Children's Hospital, CYWHS
|
|
$130,000
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
|
Longitudinal study of the health and well being of refugee children over their first two years of settlement
|
|
Sydney Children's Hospital Department of Community Child Health
|
|
$158,500
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
A randomized trial to prevent the development of eczema and asthma in children
|
|
University of Melbourne
|
|
$62,219
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
|
Does maternal obesity influence the cardiovascular health of newborns?
|
|
Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute
|
|
$69,536
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
Kid Sleep Study: Long-term outcomes of a randomised trial of an infant sleep intervention on child overweight/obesity at school entry
|
|
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
|
|
$86,600
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
|
Improving outcomes for children with congenital hearing loss: Wave 3 of the CHIVOS study
|
|
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
|
|
$106,000
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
Wollongong Sport: A community-based after-school activity program for overweight and at-risk of overweight 8-11 year old children
|
|
University of Wollongong
|
|
$74,176
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
|
What factors influence the transmission and colonisation of caries-producing bacteria in Australian children?
|
|
The University of Adelaide
|
|
$50,000
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
How do Enteroviruses cause type 1 diabetes?
|
|
University of NSW Sydney
|
|
$79,967
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
|
Total 2009
|
|
|
|
$1,294,661
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Project Name
|
|
Grant Recipient
|
|
Grant Amount
|
|
Term
|
|
|
|
2008
|
|
|
Loozit: A community-based healthy, active living program for overweight and obese young people aged 13-16 years
|
|
The University of Sydney, Discipline of Paediatrics & Child Health
|
|
$61,250
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
|
ARDAC Second Phase Study - Antecedents of Renal Disease in Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Children and Young Adults (a 12 year follow-up study)
|
|
University of Sydney, School of Public Health
|
|
$134,684
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
Pre-clinical Development of Ex-Vivo Expanded Haematopoietic Stem Cells Derived from Umbilical Cord Blood for Use in Allogeneic Transplantation
|
|
University of NSW for the Sydney Children's Hospital, Cord and Marrow Transplant Facility
|
|
$137,000
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
|
Outcome and head injuries in children injured in the first three years of life: Cognitive, behavioural & social implications
|
|
Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital
|
|
$69,540
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
Can sleep intervention improve child sleep, behaviour, quality of life and school attendance in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: a pilot study
|
|
Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Centre for Community Child Health
|
|
$45,450
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
|
An investigation of Early Life Determinants of Type 1 Diabetes
|
|
Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital
|
|
$75,210
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
Investigating the responsiveness of The Melbourne Assessment of Unilateral Upper Limb Function for children with neurological impairment
|
|
The Royal Children's Hospital Foundation Limited, Occupational Therapy Department
|
|
$47,112
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
|
Investigation of passive immunity to Streptococcus pneumoniae in indigenous Australian newborns
|
|
Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Allergy & Immunology Department
|
|
$37,200
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
Tuning in to Kids - A community treatment effectiveness trial of an early intervention parenting program for preventing emotional and behavioural difficulties in preschool children
|
|
The University of Melbourne, Mindful: Centre for Training and Research in Developmental Health
|
|
$125,039
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
|
Microbial pathogenesis of Otitis Media
|
|
Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, QLD
|
|
$60,000
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
|
Total 2008
|
|
|
|
$792,485
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Project Name
|
|
Grant Recipient
|
|
Grant Amount
|
|
Term
|
|
|
|
2007
|
|
|
Clinical and community studies of child and adolescent obesity research: a co-ordinated approach
|
|
University of Sydney for the Children's Hospital at Westmead
|
|
$120,000
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
|
Monitoring environmental influences on the establishment of the epigenetic landscape during pregnancy and implications for the health of children
|
|
Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
|
|
$70,750
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
Are Blood Vessel Changes in the Eye Inherited? A Twins Study in Children
|
|
Centre for Eye Research Australia
|
|
$50,537
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
|
Developing a quality of life questionnaire for adolescents with cerebral palsy: An extension of the cerebral palsy quality of life questionnaire for children (CP QOL - Child).
|
|
Deakin University, Vic - School of Health and Social Development
|
|
$54,960
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
Loozit: a community-based healthy, active living program for overweight and obese young people aged 13-16 years
|
|
University of Sydney - Discipline of Paediatrics & Child Health
|
|
$60,000
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
|
Evaluation of the role and function of an Indigenous Reference Group (IRG) as a model for conducting research involving Indigenous children in the Northern Territory.
|
|
Menzies School of Health Research - Indigenous Health, Casuarina N.T.
|
|
$44,000
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
Behavioural and emotional problems in young children with developmental delay
|
|
Monash University, Victoria - Centre for Developmental Psychiatry & Psychology
|
|
$158,260
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
|
Using telomere biology to improve therapy for childhood leukaemia
|
|
Murdoch Children's Research Institute - Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
|
|
$97,000
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
|
Total 2007
|
|
|
|
$698,207
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Project Name
|
|
Grant Recipient
|
|
Grant Amount
|
|
Term
|
|
|
|
2006
|
|
|
A follow up study of blood pressure control in healthy and at risk babies
|
|
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
|
|
$39,000
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
|
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Bronchiolitis: could prostaglandin regulation hold the key?
|
|
Flinders University
|
|
$70,000
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
Premature birth: Consequence for the developing visual system
|
|
University of Melbourne
|
|
$50,000
|
|
1 Year
|
|
|
|
Extended follow up to assess the long term (3-5 year) effectiveness on a parent-led, family focused child weight management program
|
|
Flinders University
|
|
$37,400
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
A Randomised Clinical Trial of the Augmentation of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Fluoxetine for School Refusal
|
|
Monash University
|
|
$100,000
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
|
Neuroprotection in the neonate: Can we save the baby’s brain by feeding the heart
|
|
University of Queensland
|
|
$85,000
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
Newborn brain injury and studies of the responses of endogenous brain neutral stem cells
|
|
Sydney Children’s Hospital
|
|
$105,000
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
|
Building preschooler’s emotional competence: Evaluating an early intervention for preventing behaviour problems
|
|
The University of Melbourne
|
|
$80,000
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
Autonomic function in normal and “at risk for SIDS” infants
|
|
University of Sydney
|
|
$80,000
|
|
2 Years
|
|
|
|
Total 2006
|
|
|
|
$646,400
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Project Name
|
|
Grant Recipient
|
|
Grant Amount
|
|
Term
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
|
Measuring the determinants of children's health and wellbeing: An indicators and instruments database for Australian researchers
|
|
Queensland University of Technology
|
|
$140,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
|
Development of assay procedures for the characterisation of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae biofilms formed during otitis media with effusion
|
|
Monash University, Clayton Campus
|
|
$135,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
Aboriginal children’s health and environment: a comparable research study in three diverse ‘community’ settings with Aboriginal young people on their experience of place and its significance to their cultural, physical and social health and well-being
|
|
RMIT University
|
|
$115,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
|
Respiratory Events in Early Childhood (REECH)
|
|
Women’s & Children’s Hospital, Adelaide
|
|
$90,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
ARDAC follow-up study–Antecedents of Renal Disease in Aboriginal Children
|
|
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
|
|
$87,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
|
Getting to know you: Evaluating the Benefits of a New Parenting Program
|
|
NSW Institute of Psychiatry
|
|
$76,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
Early intervention with premature infants: Improving medical, neurobehavourial and brain functioning through environmental interventions
|
|
Australian Hospital Medical Research Foundation
|
|
$20,000
|
|
1 year
|
|
|
|
Further evaluating the effectiveness of a parent-training program for young children with developmental disabilities and severe behaviour problems
|
|
The University of New South Wales
|
|
$16,000
|
|
1 year
|
|
|
|
Total 2005
|
|
|
|
$679,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Project Name
|
|
Grant Recipient
|
|
Grant Amount
|
|
Term
|
|
|
|
2004
|
|
|
How benign is rolandic epilepsy? The relationship of cognition, quality of life and the EEG
|
|
Sydney Children’s Hospital, NSW
|
|
$42,000
|
|
1 year
|
|
|
|
The children with Hearing Loss in Victoria Study: deaf adolescents in a hearing world
|
|
Royal Children’s Hospital, VIC
|
|
$115,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
Understanding Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP): The Gift of Sight
|
|
University of Sydney, NSW
|
|
$92,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
|
Assessing the effects of health and unhealthy TV food advertising on children’s food related attitudes and preferences: research to inform policy and practice
|
|
Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, VIC
|
|
$88,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
An evaluation of the efficacy of a behavioural intervention program for young children with Autistic Disorder
|
|
School of Psychology, Flinders University, Sth Australia
|
|
$59,000
|
|
1 year
|
|
|
|
A pilot study to determine the appropriate design for a trial of acellular pertussis vaccine given at birth
|
|
National Centre of Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, NSW
|
|
$130,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
Determinants of spinal health of adolescents: analysis of a unique longitudinal study dataset
|
|
School of Health Sciences, Sth Australia
|
|
$23,000
|
|
1 year
|
|
|
|
Early life environmental influences on the development of allergic sensitisation, asthma and allergic rhinitis in childhood
|
|
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
|
|
$43,000
|
|
1 year
|
|
|
Cochrane Child Health Field: Forming an International Partnership with Canada
|
|
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, NSW
|
|
$90,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
|
Botulinum toxin and the neglected upper limb in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy
|
|
Rehabilitation Studies Unit, Flinders University, SA
|
|
$70,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
Urinary tract infection and persistent daytime wetting in children; a population based cohort study (OUTCOME Study)
|
|
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, NSW
|
|
$110,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
|
Total 2004
|
|
|
|
$862,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Project Name
|
|
Grant Recipient
|
|
Grant Amount
|
|
Term
|
|
|
|
2003
|
|
|
Pilot study in preparation for a major proposal to the US National Institutes of Health for the Pulse Oximeter Saturation Trial for prevention of Retinopathy of Prematurity (POST-ROP)
|
|
Department of Neonatal Medicine, Westmead Hospital & The Children's Hospital, Westmead, NSW
|
|
$44,148
|
|
1 year
|
|
|
|
A randomised placebo controlled trial of antibiotics to prevent urinary tract infections in children - PRIVENT (Melbourne arm)
|
|
Centre for International Child Health, Royal children's Hospital
|
|
$90,400
|
|
2 year
|
|
|
Early intervention with premature infants: Improving medical, neurobehavioural and brain functioning through environmental interventions
|
|
Department of Clinical & Health Psychology, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, VIC
|
|
$85,000
|
|
1 year
|
|
|
|
An examination of the importance of the neighbourhood environment on children's physical activity
|
|
School of Health Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC
|
|
$98,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
Adaptation and seed funding for a national trial of Communities That Care: A prevention project focussing on improving the health and behaviour of young Australians from the ages 0-18
|
|
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch children's Research Institute, VIC
|
|
$82,800
|
|
1 year
|
|
|
|
Evidence-based methods for predicting outcomes and planning services in Community Child
|
|
Department of Paediatrics, The children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW
|
|
$165,000
|
|
3 years
|
|
|
|
The emotional and behavioural adjustment of preadolescent children who were born either very preterm or term
|
|
Department of Psychology, Curtin University of Technology, WA
|
|
$6,600
|
|
1 year
|
|
|
Total 2003
|
|
|
|
$584,657
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Project Name
|
|
Grant Recipient
|
|
Grant Amount
|
|
Term
|
|
|
|
2002
|
|
|
Can Bisphosphonates Successfully Treat Perthes Disease?
|
|
The Children's Hospital Westmead, NSW
|
|
$42,000
|
|
1 year
|
|
|
|
Implementing a randomised controlled trial of a home visiting parenting support and training program for opiate-dependent pregnant woman. Phase 1 is establishing feasibility and preliminary planning
|
|
University of Newcastle,NSW
|
|
$62,000
|
|
1 year
|
|
|
International Neonatal Immunothreapy Study: a randomised trail of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) for neonatal sepsis
|
|
Westmead Hospital, NSW
|
|
$76,000
|
|
1 year
|
|
|
|
Culturally sensitive stress resiliency training program for non-English speaking background parents of children who have recently migrated to Australia
|
|
Griffith University, QLD
|
|
$82,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
Metabolic complications of sleep-breathing disorders (obstructive apnoea) in children
|
|
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW
|
|
$120,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
|
Improving decision making in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
|
|
Flinders University, SA
|
|
$120,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
Development of an evidence-based approach for Community Child Health
|
|
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW
|
|
$111,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
|
RCT of Headbox Oxgyen Vs CPAP for neonatal respiratory distress in non-tertiary hospitals
|
|
Gosford District Hospital, WA
|
|
$40,000
|
|
1 year
|
|
|
Determining the safety of formulas for pre-term infants: a meta-analysis of the growth of infants in randomised clinical trials of long chain poly unsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) supplementation
|
|
Flinders Medical Centre, SA
|
|
$54,000
|
|
1 year
|
|
|
|
Total 2002
|
|
|
|
$707,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Project Name
|
|
Grant Recipient
|
|
Grant Amount
|
|
Term
|
|
|
|
2001
|
|
|
Molecular Genetics Study of Childhood Asthma and Atopy
|
|
Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead Hospital, NSW
|
|
$168,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
|
Upper Bedding as a Prevention Measure in Childhood Asthma: A Randomised Controlled trial
|
|
National centre for Epidemiology and Population Heath, ANU, ACT
|
|
$159,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
Farm Chemical exposure in rural South Australian children
|
|
University of South Australia, Whyalla Campus, SA
|
|
$90,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
|
The impact of postnatal depression on the development of children in the pre-school years
|
|
The University of Sydney
|
|
$50,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
A randomised, controlled, double-blind trial to investigate the ability of a school-based, group physiotherapy program to reduce functional motor difficulties and improve neuromuscular measures of motor control in children with Developmen
|
|
Physiotherapy Research Foundation, University of Queensland, QLD
|
|
$70,000
|
|
1 year
|
|
|
|
Does Rotavirus cause Type 1 Diabetes?
|
|
Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Victoria
|
|
$140,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
The impact of treatment for childhood Leukaemia and related disorders from patients, siblings and parents? perspectives
|
|
Queensland University of Technology, QLD
|
|
$78,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
|
Establishment of a Centre for Evidence-Based Paediatrics, Gastroenterology and Nutrition
|
|
The children's Hospital, Westmead, NSW
|
|
$90,000
|
|
2 years
|
|
|
|
Total 2001
|
|
|
|
$845,000
|
|
|
|
