2024 Rowden White Trust

Pictured  top row: Dr Ellen Menkhorst, Dr Sarah Lensen, A/Prof Michelle Peate, Dr Kate Hodgson, Dr Michael Assis, Dr Liz Baker, Dr Wei Zhou & Dr Jose Luis Alfredo Huaman Torres. Bottom row: Michaela Sacco, Yanping (Windy) Huang, Dorcas Serwaa, Lucy Caughey, Jacqueline Hunter, Sarvenaz Sabourirad, Dr Madhura Jayasingam, Shiva Pourali Roudbaneh, Dr Zobaida Edib
Awardees have been announced for the 2024 A.E. Rowden White and Edward R. White Foundation Trust People and Project Support for Early Career and Mid-Career Researchers and the Graduate Research and Early Career Research Career Development Support.
The A.E. Rowden White and Edward R. White Foundation Trust foundation was established by the late Sir Alfred Edward Rowden White and his brother Sir Edward Rowden White to support medical research at the Royal Women’s Hospital (RWH).  This round of funding called for applications from Early and Mid-Career researchers to build research capacity at the RWH and support collaborative networks.


We are pleased to announce the awardees for the Rowden White Trust People and Project Support for ECR and MCR for 2024 are: Dr Ellen Menkhorst, Dr Sarah Lensen, A/Prof Michelle Peate, Dr Kate Hodgson, Dr Michael Assis, Dr Liz Baker, Dr Wei Zhou & Dr Jose Luis Alfredo Huaman Torres.

The recipients of the Rowden White Trust Graduate Researchers and Early Career Researchers 2024/5 Career Development Support are: Michaela Sacco, Yanping (Windy) Huang, Dorcas Serwaa, Lucy Caughey, Jacqueline Hunter, Sarvenaz Sabourirad, Dr Madhura Jayasingam, Shiva Pourali Roudbaneh, Dr Zobaida Edib, Dr Wei Zhou & Dr Jose Luis Alfredo Huaman Torres.


Funds were also provided for the purchase of shared laboratory equipment; a Live Cell imager and a digital PCR system which will have a large impact on research capability, capacity and innovation at the Women’s site.

The late Sir Alfred Edward Rowden White (Rowden White) and his brother Sir Edward Rowden White in 1955, created the A.E. Rowden White and Edward R. White Foundation (RW Trust) at University of Melbourne to assist funding of Medical Research at the Royal Women's Hospital (RWH), Carlton. It was the ‘dearest hopes’ of the White brothers that the foundation ‘will be fostered, amplified and encouraged in the most practical ways, by the use of the funds which will forever be available from the foundation’.  Within the Last Will & Testament (1957) of Sir Rowden White, he expressly states that two thousand pounds out of the income of his Residuary Estate, is to be paid to the Foundation per annum. This is an incredible philanthropic gift and- today- makes the Rowden White Trust one of the most valuable in the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences.