Monash Partners is pleased to announce the recipients of our 2026 Grants and Strategic Translation and Research (STAR) Fellowships, supporting innovative translational research across our partner network.
Congratulations to:
- Data Seed Grant – $10,000 (12 months)
- Darren Rajit, Monash Health, Co-designing a data platform to bridge the maternity data gap
- Luke Clegg, Bayside Health (Alfred Care Group), Real-time data-driven lung cancer care pathways
- Medical Research Institute Grant – $20,000 (12 months)
- Roxanne Liou, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Circular RNAs in neurodevelopment
- Austin Lai, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Age and sex differences in calcific aortic valve disease
- Tafireyi Marukutira, Burnet Institute, Portable rapid TB diagnosis in remote PNG
- Leukaemia Research Grant – $30,000 (24 months)
- Katherine Scull, Monash Health and Monash University, Plasma immunopeptidomics for actionable target discovery in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
- Cancer Research Grant – $70,000 (24 months)
- Evangeline Samuel, Bayside Health (Alfred Care Group) and Latrobe Regional Health, Service capacity and equity in later-line lung cancer care
- Stroke/Heart Disease Research Grant – $100,000 (24 months)
- Lachlan Dalli, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute and Monash University, COMPASS: Coordinated medication prescription and adherence support system after stroke
- Consumer & Community Involvement STAR Fellowship – $60,000 (12 months)
- Robb Wesselingh, Bayside Health (Alfred Care Group) and Monash University, En-DOOR: Patient-centred outcome framework for autoimmune encephalitis
- Nursing/Allied Health STAR Fellowships – $60,000 (12 months)
- Neha Kaul, Bayside Health (Alfred Care Group), Keto-STAR: ketogenic formula in refractory status epilepticus
- Lisa Chen, Bayside Health (Peninsula Care Group) and Monash University, Same-day discharge after PCI (nurse-coordinated implementation study)
