CRE Grant Awardees

Seed grant awardees

  • Dr Hannah Johns (Statistician, University of Melbourne): An integrated toolkit for the development and implementation of co-designed desirability of outcome ranking measures in stroke clinical trials.
  • Dr Natali Fini (Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne): Fit 4 Me After Stroke – Co-designed personalised physical activity programs in people with mild stroke tested via an innovative early-phase trial design.
  • Dr Anna Holwell (physician, Alice Springs Hospital, NT): Remote Code Stroke in Central Australia
  • Dr Madeleine Smith (neuroscientist, Monash University, VIC): Mesenchymal stem cell therapy in combination with high-dose rehabilitation: A translational, preclinical study to improve upper limb motor outcomes after stroke
  • Dr Dawn Simpson (physiotherapist, University of Newcastle, NSW): A Learning-Cycle Approach to develop the Fatigue Protectometer trial pipeline
  • Dr Emily Dalton (occupational therapist, University of Melbourne, VIC): DOSE ranging in UPper limb rehabilitation late post-stroke (DOSE-UP)

New stroke trial sites (given when matched funding also available from institution)

$50,000 Site support grants provided to: 

  • Townsville University Hospital, QLD. Dr Ravinda Urkude.
  • Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, WA. Dr Thomas Chemmanan
  • Alice Springs Hospital, NT. Dr Anna Holwell