Injury site-derived proteoglycan glypican-3 suppresses growth plate cartilage bony repair and bone fracture healing

Chief Investigator: Dr Yu-Wen Su Funding Amount: $75,000 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview: Two major challenges in paediatric orthopaedics are (1) the faulty or unwanted bony repair of injured

Lactation as a window of opportunity for reversing cardiometabolic programming

Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Beverly Muhlhausler Funding Amount: $75,000 Recipient: University of Adelaide Overview: Being exposed to maternal high-fat and high-sugar diets before birth and in early infancy is a

Chimeric Antigen Receptor Tregulatory cells (CAR-Treg) as a treatment for Type 1 Diabetes (TID)

Chief Investigator: Dr Timothy Sadlon Funding Amount: $74,915 Recipient: Women’s and Children’s Health Network Overview: Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is caused by autoimmune destruction of the insulin-producing pancreatic beta-cells. There

Identifying the pathological mechanism of childhood epilepsy and adolescent movement disorders caused by PRRT2 mutations

Chief Investigator: Dr James Hughes Funding Amount: $75,000 Recipient: The University of Adelaide Overview: Epilepsy and movement disorders are highly debilitating conditions that together affect approximately 3% of individuals at

Understanding the contribution of parental mosaicism to the causes of childhood genetic epilepsies.

Chief Investigator: Dr Sarah Heron Funding Amount: $75,000 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview: This project will help to accurately define the frequency of somatic mosaicism, that is, the presence