Projects

2026–2029 (General Fellowship): Harnessing Somatic Genetic Rescue for Gene Discovery and Novel Avenues of Therapy in Inherited Bone Marrow Failure. Dr Parvathy Venugopal, Adelaide University.  Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes prevent the ...

2026–2029 (Fiona Riewoldt Nursing and Allied Health Fellowship): Marrow Matters: Developing and evaluating a Nurse Practitioner-led model of care to improve clinical outcomes and patient and family-centred care for Severe Aplastic Anaemia. ...

2026–2029 (General Fellowship): From Genetic Diagnosis to Gene Editing Therapy for Telomerase RNA–Related Bone Marrow Failure. Dr Ashley Yang, Children’s Medical Research Institute.  Telomeres are protective structures at the ends of ...

2025–2028 | Dr Daniel North  Allogeneic stem cell transplantation is an important treatment for many blood disorders, including Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes. It involves giving a patient healthy blood-forming stem cells from a donor, with the ...

2020-2023 (Grant): Evaluating Multidisciplinary Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome Care – a prospective observational clinical trial offering comprehensive diagnostic genomic evaluation, multidisciplinary case review and multidisciplinary clinical ...

2018-2021 (Doctoral Degree Fellowship): Clinical, genomic and molecular determinants of outcome in patients with Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes, Dr Lucy Fox, The University of Melbourne. This project is the first scholarship in Australia to ...

2015-ongoing: The Australian Aplastic Anaemia and Other Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes Registry, Transfusion Research Unit, Monash University. The Aplastic Anaemia Registry (AAR), established in 2012, is a collaboration between the Transfusion ...

2020 – 2024 (Alex Gadomski Scholarship): Steps toward generating new molecular therapies for Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes, Ariel Simpson, Menzies Institute for Medical Research and University of Tasmania. The only established treatment ...

2017 – 2019 Fellowship / 2017 Grant-in-Aid, Towards targeted treatments for Fanconi Anaemia, Associate Professor Wayne Crismani, St Vincents Institute for Medical Research Fanconi Anaemia is an inherited disorder which can lead to bone ...

2023- 2025 (Fellowship): Discovery of novel niche factors to improve long-term stem cell transplantation in bone marrow failure syndromes. Dr Vashe Chandrakanthan, The University of Adelaide. For many patients with Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes, ...

2023-2025 (Fiona Riewoldt Nursing/Allied Health Fellowship): Utility of a neurobehavioural assessment for treatment planning, educational, and family support for children undergoing bone marrow transplant for non-malignant ...

2023- 2025 (Fellowship): The inaugural Captain Courageous Fellowship. A preclinical trial of next generation gene editing for the prevention of bone marrow failure in Fanconi Anaemia. Dr Astrid Glaser at the Genome Stability Unit of St Vincent’s ...