Researchers awarded NHMRC 2025 Postgraduate Scholarship funding

Twelve researchers from the Melbourne Medical School have secured a National Health and Medical Research Council 2025 Postgraduate Scholarship.

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NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarships are awarded to health and medical graduates in the early stages of their career to support them in their training to conduct internationally competitive research and to build original, independent research capacity within Australia.

Department of Medicine
  • Simone Chin: Exploring Novel Models of Care to Optimise Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Pregnancy
  • Declan Connoley: Clinical and scientific predictors of response to faecal microbiota transplantation in Crohn’s disease (MIRO) Study
  • Winston Dzau: Biomarkers of multiple sclerosis disease progression and treatment response
  • Rose Lin: A randomised multi-centre open-label trial of Tolvaptan vs. Urea for therapy of hyponatraemia after failure of fluid restriction in hospital inpatients
  • Saskia Rowson: Exercise to Complement the Management of Polymyalgia Rheumatica
  • Sarah Thomas: Clot radiomics and haemodynamic profiling in acute ischaemic stroke: Towards precision diagnostics and therapy
  • Kyle Wu: Application of machine learning and spatial transcriptomics for the endoscopic and histologic detection of IBD dysplasia
  • Victor Yang: Characterising the plasma proteome of polymyalgia rheumatica
Department of Clinical Pathology
  • Angie Xiang: Novel circulating biomarkers of neuroendocrine tumours
Department of General Practice and Primary Care
  • Lu Yang: Evaluating the Acceptability and Appropriateness of a Person-Centred General Practice Mental-Health Triage and Navigation Model for Australian CALD Communities
Department of Infectious Diseases
  • Brennan Collis: Optimising Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Liver Transplant Recipients Colonised with Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (OPTIMAL)
Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Newborn Health
  • Su Jen Chua: Beyond the Birth: Cardiorenal protection After Preeclampsia