Congratulations to the following researchers from the Institute for Breathing and Sleep, who were successful in their grant applications to the Austin Medical Research Foundation – Associate Professor Mark Howard, Dr Tracey Leong, and Associate Professor Nicole Goh and Dr Jennifer Mann. 2022 Grants were awarded for the following projects:
Main Investigator and team | Project title | Amount awarded |
A/Prof Mark Howard, Dr Anna Ridgers, Prof David Berlowitz, Dr Liam Hannan | Virtual Ventilation: An evaluation of the utility of ventilator-recorded data to titrate ventilator settings in comparison to hospital based non-invasive ventilation polysomnography | $10,000 |
Dr Tracey Leong | Exploring resistance to immunotherapy in lung cancer | $25,000 |
A/Prof Nicole Goh and Dr Jennifer Mann |
Measuring cough in interstitual lung disease: an expert survey |
$11,000 |
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