2024 Recipients

Prize(s)	Recipient	Affiliation	Presentation Title
Allied Health, Nursing, & Midwifery Division Winner	Lyndall Cook	Bilston Group, Neuroscience Research Australia.	Evaluating harnesses for safe transportation of children with disabilities.
Allied Health, Nursing, & Midwifery People’s Choice	Dr Annie Palermo	Spinal Cord Injury Unit, Neuroscience Research Australia.	The TCT and FIST-SCI are appropriate clinical assessments of functional sitting balance in spinal cord injury rehabilitation.
Allied Health, Nursing, & Midwifery Poster	Maria Lohan	Midwifery Group Practice, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Royal Hospital for Women.	A hospital quality improvement project to optimise oral iron treatment for pregnant women with iron deficiency anaemia and iron deficiency.
Allied Health, Nursing, & Midwifery People’s Choice Poster	Dr Lauren Ha	Behavioural Sciences Unit, Kids Cancer Centre, Sydney Children’s Hospital & UNSW Sydney.	Making Moves: A type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of an online physical activity program for childhood cancer survivors.
Basic Science Division Winner	Dr Amy Logan	Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, Children’s Cancer Institute.	GD2 targeting of siRNA lipid nanoparticles improves efficacy in neuroblastoma.
Basic Science People’s Choice Winner	Dr Aaminah Khan	Brain Tumour Group, Children’s Cancer Institute.	Inhibition of the polyamine pathway: A novel therapeutic approach to treat aggressive paediatric medulloblastoma.
Basic Science Poster	Benjamin Wu	Oocyte Biology Research Research Unit, Laboratory for Ageing Research, UNSW Sydney.	Re-aggregation of young somatic cumulus cells with young nude oocytes partly restores soma-germline communication.
Basic Science People’s Choice Poster	Dr Gregory Walker	Virology Research Laboratory, Prince of Wales Hospital; UNSW Sydney.	Characterising the surge of RSV detections in Sydney following relaxation of COVID-19-related public health measures.
Case Presentations Division Winner Case Presentations People’s Choice Winner	Dr Maria Lean	Department of Infectious Diseases, Prince of Wales Hospital.	Always wash your greens: A case of eosinophilic meningoencephalitis caused by angiostrongylus cantonensis in Sydney.
Clinical Division Winner PhD Top-Up Scholarship	Dr Anita Nitchingham	Department of Geriatric Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital.	Long-acting intranasal insulin as a novel treatment for delirium: Findings from a randomised controlled trial.
Clinical Division People’s Choice PhD Top-Up Scholarship	Chiettha Prajnadewie	Spinal Cord Injury Research Centre (SCIRC), Neuroscience Research Australia.	Simultaneous application of the abdominal binder and abdominal functional electrical stimulation prevents signs of orthostatic hypotension during postural change in people with subacute spinal cord injury.
Clinical Division Poster	Dr Niall Johnston	Department of Infectious Diseases, Sydney Children’s Hospital.	Increase in the frequency, morbidity and mortality of invasive streptococcus pyogenes infections following relaxation of non-pharmaceutical interventions directed against COVID-19.
Clinical Division People’s Choice Poster	Ann Rita Barreiros	Neurostimulation and Interventional Psychiatry Team, UNSW Sydney; Black Dog Institute.	Understanding the effects of demographic, clinical and treatment factors on recovery of orientation after ECT: A CARE Network Study.
Independent Learning Project & Honours Division Winner	Teresa Sheng	School of Population Health, UNSW Medicine & Health.	What are the hypertension knowledge and competencies of Australian medical students and educators? A dual-stakeholder evaluation of medical education.
Independent Learning Project & Honours Division People’s Choice	Natasha Ong	UNSW Medicine & Health; Department of Paediatrics, Joining the Dots, Royal Hospital of Women.	Inhaled nitric oxide for the preterm infant: A population-based study of mortality and morbidity outcomes.
Independent Learning Project & Honours Division Poster	Richa Chaluvadi	CNS Gene Therapy Group, Translational Neuroscience Facility, School of Biomedical Sciences, UNSW Sydney.	Gene therapy proof-of-concept for spastic paraplegia 56 (SPG56).
Independent Learning Project & Honours Division People’s Choice Poster	Jerrica Kuan	Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW Sydney. Prince of Wales Hospital, Karitane Early Parenting Centre Randwick.	Outcomes of Circle of Security-Parenting (COS-P) at an Australian Early Parenting Centre: Investigating education, ethnicity and gender-based parent outcomes.