2020 Career Support Funds Granted

Find out more about the recipients of the 2020 Career Support Grants and their research projects.

In 2020, the Cancer Institute NSW funded $3.3 million in cancer research fellowships supporting emerging and established researchers in NSW. 

2020 Career Development Fellowships

Career Development Fellowships are for mid-career researchers who demonstrate the potential to undertake research that will have major significance to cancer outcomes. 

 

Administering Institution Grantee Grant Title Funding (excl. GST)

Cancer Council NSW

Dr Kate Simms Evaluating Novel Interventions To Facilitate Cervical Cancer Elimination Across Low-And-Middle-Income Countries And High-Income Countries: A Modelled Evaluation.

$564,136

University of New South Wales

Dr Maarit Laaksonen

Improving cancer prevention, early detection and outcomes through novel applications of cancer burden methods to large linked health data.

$150,000

University of New South Wales

Dr Wei Deng

New therapeutic option for lymph node metastasis in rectal cancer: radiation-triggered photodynamic therapy in deep tissue.

 $517,454

$1,231,590

2020 Early Career Fellowships

Early Career Fellowships are aimed at encouraging researchers to build on their research capability and become leaders of their own research team.

 

Administering Institution Grantee Grant Title Funding (excl. GST)

University of New South Wales

Dr Anthony Glover

The Endocrine Cancer Research Program

$540,000

University of New South Wales

Dr Natalia Castano Rodriguez

Understanding the tumour-promoting functions of autophagy in gastric carcinogenesis

$598,636

The University of Sydney

Dr Paul Zhi Yuan Liu

Upright radiotherapy for improved lung cancer treatment outcomes

$355,000

The University of Sydney

Dr David Waddington

Personalising cancer radiation therapy via dynamic MRI-based adaptation to changing tumour anatomy and biology

$583,100

$2,076,736