Ageing and geriatric medicine - Grants
Current grants
Organ Transplantation as a Model of Reversible Frailty (2023-2026)
NHMRC Ideas Grant
Team: Hubbard RE, Midwinter M, Gordon E, Kumar V, Francis R, Garton F, Reid N, Kang S, Huang A, Rhee H
$1.6 million
Frailty KIT: An Australian Frailty Network to Create Knowledge, Implement Findings and Support Training (2022-2027)
MRFF Dementia Ageing and Aged Care Mission ($5M)
Team: Hubbard RE, Young A, Fiatarone-Singh M, Hilmer S, Reid N, Rockwood K, Etherton-Beer C, Baldassar L, Saunders R, Millar M, Morgan M, Gordon E, Comans T, Yates P, Ferris J.
$5 million
Frailty ADD: Improving Hospital Outcomes for Frail Patients Across Different Disciplines (2022-2027)
NHMRC, Centre of Research Excellence
Team: Hubbard RE, Hilmer S, Rockwood K, Howard K, Tong A, Janda M, Etherton-Beer C, Gnjidic D, Lim K, Reid N
$2.5 million
INTEGRITY: The INTErGenerational intervention to Reduce fraIlTY trial (2022-2025)
NHMRC Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies Grant ($3.7Million)
Team: Peters R, Rockwood K, Fitzgerald J, Delbaere K, Ward S, Anderson C, Kimonis E, Hubbard RE, Kurrle S, Janda M
$3.7 million
Using Kidney Transplantation to Investigate Epigenetic Markers of Frailty (2022-2024)
Princess Alexandra Hospital Program Grant
Investigators: Emily Gordon, Jake Gratten, Ross Francis, Natasha Reid, Naomi Wray, Ruth Hubbard
$300,000
Improving services for frail patients with severe mental illness: implementation and feasibility of a frailty intervention (2022-2023)
Princess Alexandra Hospital Early Career Fellowship
Investigators: Nicola Warren, Ruth Hubbard, Dan Siskind, Emily Gordon, Natasha Reid, Urska Arnautovska
$75,000
The GOAL Trial: Vascular Surgery. Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for Older Elective Vascular Surgery Patients to Increase Attainment of Patient-Identified Goals (2022-2024)
Queensland Advancing Clinical Research Fellowship – Early Career
Investigator: Emily Gordon
$250,000
Increasing Attainment of Patient-Identified Goals through Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment - A Controlled Trial for Frail Older People with Lung Cancer (2020-2024)
Princess Alexandra Hospital Program Grant
$298,672
Codesigning services: Partnering with consumers in creating a service provision framework for meeting lymphoedema related needs in Metro South (2023-2025)
Metro South Research Support Scheme
Team: Mary Whitehead, Jacki Liddle, Amanda Pigott, Elizabeth Pinkham, Nancy Pachana, Peter Worthy, Freyr Patterson, Adrienne Young, Eileen Taylor, Dubhglas Taylor, Andrew McCann, Ruth Cox, Megan Trevethan, Clare Webb
$49,921
Development and Validation of a Self-Reported Frailty Index (2023-2025)
Metro South Research Support Scheme
Team: Hubbard RE, Ladwa R, Walpole E, Berry R, Shafiee Hanjani L, Sia A, Gordon E, Fletcher J, Ling YMV
$125,000
Leveraging Machine Learning to Reduce the Impact of Medication Harm (2023-2026
Metro South Research Support Scheme
Team: Scott I, Barras M, Falconer N, Abdel-Hafez A, Marxen S, Shafiee Hanjani L, McPhail S, Bonilla O, Van Garderen A
$350,000
Using community-based goals to increase physical activity and improve outcomes for older Australians in the TCP (2023-2024)
Metro South Research Support Scheme Project grant
Team: Salih Salih, Natasha Reid, Catherine Peters, Wendy Marshall, Tania Quaglio, Patrick Roach, Anne Fry
$125,000
Improving recognition of pain-related agitation in hospital patients with dementia and/or delirium: A longitudinal cohort study observing responses to treatment (2023-2024)
Metro South Future Research Leader Fellowship
Team: Fred Graham, Ruth E. Hubbard, Andrew Teordorczuk, Amanda Henderson, Elizabeth Beattie, Leanne Jack, Elizabeth Sampson, Marie Boltz, Trudy Maunsel
$299,106
Optimising treatment of older persons with acute myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndromes through the implementation of diagnostic and longitudinal frailty assessments (20236-2024)
Metro South Research Support Scheme, Early Career Researcher Fellowship ($100,000)
Team: Viki Ling, Ruth E. Hubbard, Paula Marlton, Courtney Tate, Aaron Sia, Robyn Berry, Elizabeth Costin, Natasha Reid
$100,000
We are only as strong as our weakest link: Improving the transition from hospital to home for adults with eating disorders (2022-2023)
Australian Eating Disorders Research and Translation Centre IgnitED Fund ($25,000)
Team: Kylie Matthews-Rensch, Adrienne Young, Amy Hannigan, Amanda Davis, Rea Nolan
$25,000
Creativity and Movement in Ageing Communities: Enhancing wellbeing through friendship, art, and exercise (2022-2023)
Launch-Partnership grant
Team: Daniel Wadsworth, Tricia King, Leah Barclay, Liam Mayo, Amanda Clacy, Natasha Reid
$24,665
Frailty and kidney transplantation: Measurement and mechanisms (2021-2023)
Princess Alexandra Research Support Scheme
Team: Emily Gordon, Mark Midwinter, Ross Francis, Natasha Reid, Ryan Homes, Ruth Hubbard
$100,000
A step forward against ageing: wearable assistive devices in fit and frailer older people (2021-2023)
Princess Alexandra Research Support Scheme
$50,000
Reducing social frailty in late adulthood (2020-2025)
ARC Linkage
$461,088
**The GOAL Trial: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for Frail Older People with Chronic Kidney Disease to Increase Attainment of Patient-Identified Goals - A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial (2020-2024)
NHMRC Targeted Call for Research
$1.51 million
Frailty stratified, randomised controlled Bayesian adaptive trial of bortezomib versus lenalidomide in transplant-ineligible myeloma – the FRAIL-M study (2019-2023)
MRFF Research Grants
$1.68 million