Major support from the Hospital Research Foundation for prostate cancer research

The Centre congratulates two of its post-doctoral research fellows, Dr Zeyad Nassar and Dr Maggie Centenera, from the Prostate Cancer Research Group at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute on both being awarded research grants ($149,956 and $149,662 respectively) from the Hospital Research Foundation in its recently announced round.

Dr Nassar’s research will be targeting fatty acid oxidation for treatment of high risk localised prostate cancer, while Dr Centenera’s research will explore a patient-derived discovery platform for companion biomarker development in prostate cancer.

We acknowledge and thank the South Australian community for their generous donations to the Hospital Research Foundation to enable this research.

Grants to promote wellbeing of young Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander males in NT

Congratulations to researchers based at the Freemasons Centre for Male Health and Wellbeing – Northern Territory, led by Professor James Smith, on recently being awarded two grants:

• A Menzies School of Health Internal Small Research Grant to commence work relating to the adaptation of an online mental health education and support intervention for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males. This is a collaborative project with the University of Michigan, the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, and other Australian universities. This research has been catalysed by the collaborations James formed with Professor Derek Griffith at Vanderbilt University and Professor Daphne Watkins at the University of Michigan during his Fulbright Senior Scholarship program (see overview here). Other investigators involved in this project are Himanshu Gupta (Inaugural FCMHW NT Research Fellow), Anthony Merlino (Research Assistant), and Jahdai Vigona (Indigenous Trainee), all of whom are based at the Menzies School of Health Research.

• An Australian Government Department of Health grant of $103,940 for the Confident and Health Aboriginal Males Program (CHAMP): The development and piloting of a strengths-based health promotion program for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Males in the Northern Territory”. The Investigators are Prof James Smith, Mr Anthony Merlino, Dr Himanshu Gupta, and Dr Daile Rung and the project will be undertaken in collaboration with the Darwin Indigenous Men's Service, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation, Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet, and Edith Cowan University.