2025 Scientific Abstract Competition prize winners
2024 prize winners by category:
Alfred Research Alliance for Clinical/Public Health Research
Multi-Country Multi-City Collaborative Research Network. Global, regional, and national mortality burden attributable to air pollution from landscape fires: a health impact assessment study
Dr Rongbin Xu | Monash University (School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine)
Alfred Research Alliance Prize for Basic Research
EZH2 inhibitors promote β-like cell regeneration in young and adult type 1 diabetes donors
Dr Keith Al-Hasani | Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute
Prof Sam El-Osta (senior author) | Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute
Alfred Research Alliance - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples research
Identifying the characteristics of an acceptable, appropriate and culturally safe needle and syringe program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations in Australia: a scoping review
Ms Divya Raghavan | Burnet Institute
Alfred Research Alliance - Consumer Involvement in research
Perioperative medicine research priorities in Australia
Ms Sophie Wallace | Alfred Health
We Keep Us Safe: Survivor-led research on community responses to domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV) among criminalised people who use drugs
Ms Jade Lane | Burnet Institute
AH Senior Medical Staff Clinical Research - Junior Medical Researcher
The effectiveness of an early management guideline for older patients following blunt thoracic injury
Mr Rory O’Donohoe | Alfred Health
AH Senior Medical Staff Clinical Research - Junior Medical Researcher - Highly Commended/Runner Up
A systematic review of AI-based approaches for automated CT scan analysis in traumatic brain injury
Prasanthan Thaveenthiran | Alfred Health
AH Senior Medical Staff Clinical Research - Senior Medical Researcher
Intravenous iron to treat anaemia before cardiac surgery (ITACS): An international, randomised, placebo-controlled trial
Prof Paul Myles | Alfred Health / Monash University
AH Senior Medical Staff Clinical Research - Senior Medical Researcher - Highly Commended/Runner Up
A case-control study to investigate the aetiology of pelvic inflammatory disease
Dr Kay Htaik | Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health
Burnet Prize for Infectious Diseases Research
Bacterial colonisation and invasive infections among people who inject drugs: Clinical and molecular epidemiology
Dr Lucy Attwood | Alfred Health / Monash University
Neuroscience - Monash School of Translational Medicine
Intimate partner violence is associated with widespread cortical thinning and white matter microstructural disruption
Dr Georgia Symons | Monash University
MPCCC Prize for Best Abstract in Cancer Research
Reduced serum baseline kynurenine is associated with acute graft-versus-host disease in allogeneic stem cell transplant recipients
Dr Joanne Tan | Alfred Health
Incidence of pseudoprogression on 18F-FDG PET/CT in metastatic melanoma patients undergoing immune checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy
Mr Philip Macilwraith | Alfred Health
Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPRC) Prize for Psychiatry Research
Australian adults with migraine commonly have clinically significant levels of previous childhood trauma
Dr Lakshini Gunasekera | Monash University / Alfred Health
Dr Michael J Hall Memorial Prize for Respiratory Medicine
Virtual ethnography of singing for breathing in people with COPD and ILD
Dr Lena Ly | Monash University/ Alfred Health
Professor Daniel Czarny Prize for Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology
Functional assessment of the NOD2 signalling pathway in patients with inborn errors of immunity
Ms Ebony Blight | Monash University
Noel & Imelda Foster Prize for Cardiovascular Research
Are cardiovascular risk assessment tools predictive for coronary plaque burden?
Dr Cheng Hwee Soh | Baker Institute
Decrease in heart failure mortality lags behind atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease mortality in people with diabetes
Dr Joanna Gong | Baker Institute
Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute Prize for Cardiovascular Research
Spatial subcellular proteo-lipidomic mapping of mouse hearts
Ms Haoyun Fang | Baker Institute
Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute Prize for Diabetes Research
Use of the energy waveform electrocardiogram to detect subclinical left ventricular dysfunction in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Dr Cheng Hwee Soh | Baker Institute
Lucy Battistel Memorial Prize for Best Allied Health Researcher
The effect of nutrition impact symptoms on nutrition status after completion of curative-intent treatment for gastric, oesophageal, and pancreatic cancer: A systematic review
Ms Emma McShane | Alfred Health
Henrietta Law Memorial Prize for Best Novice Allied Health Researcher
ParkMoves: An interdisciplinary group enhances patient and hospital outcomes on a subacute aged care ward
Ms Georgina Lawson | Alfred Health
Best Allied Health Research Into Practice Award
Feasibility, acceptability, and delivery of an ultra high-dose community-based mobility booster program after stroke
Dr Katharine Scrivener | Alfred Health