In collaboration with the Raine Medical Research Foundation, the BrightSpark Foundation provides funding for Priming Grants for medical research in Western Australia in the area of child health.
The Priming Grants are available to health and medical researchers at an early stage in their research career, particularly those who are progressing towards an independent research career. Assisting early stage researchers to become more competitive for national and international funding is one of the aims of the BrightSpark Raine Alliance.
The BrightSpark Raine Fellow title is awarded to the top successful applicants in the area of child health research.
The Priming Grants are offered for a two-year period subject to annual review and may be used to provide funding, or part funding, for salaries of researchers and/or technical staff, minor equipment, and consumables.
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED
Click here to access the Raine Priming Grant website, which includes more information about the program, key dates, the application process (including application form) and Grant Conditions.
Past Recipients
Research Stories
Dr Cele Richardson
The University of Western Australia
Goodnight, Poor Sleep: Evaluating a Low-Barrier Solution for Youth Sleep and Mental Health
Raine Priming Grant
$470,896
2023
Dr David Preece
Curtin University, Curtin enAble Institute & School of Population Health
Addressing the Loneliness Epidemic in Young People: Bridging Affective and Clinical Science
Raine Priming Grant
$237,165
2023
Dr Archita Mishra
Telethon Kids Institute
Microbial-immune priming in early life: Implications in pre-term infections
Raine Priming Grant
$229,653
2022
Dr Tao Wang
Telethon Kids Institute, UWA
Developing effective RNA-based cancer immunotherapy
Raine Priming Grant
$229,943
2022
Dr Rachael Zemek
Raine/BrightSpark Fellow
Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
Leveraging the surgical wound healing immune response to stimulate local cancer eradication
Raine Priming Grant
$244,360
2022-2023
Dr Nelly Amenyogbe
Raine/BrightSpark Fellow
Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
Harnessing innate immune metabolism to save newborns from infectious death
Raine Priming Grant
$242,793
2022-2023
Dr Julie Ji
Raine/BrightSpark/Cockell Fellow
School of Psychological Science, The University of Western Australia
Predicting self-injurious behaviour in young people – a novel cognitive science approach
Raine Priming Grant
$227,542
2021-2022
Dr Emma de Jong
Raine/BrightSpark Fellow
UWA Centre for Child Health Research, Telethon Kids Institute
Predicting asthma disease trajectories through systems-level analyses of immune memory
Raine Priming Grant
$215,000
2020-2021
Dr Naomi Scott
Stewart/BrightSpark Fellow
Telethon Kids Institute
Attenuation of maternal inflammation to promote normal offspring neuro-immune development
Raine Priming Grant
$150,000
2019-2020
Dr Tara Richman
Raine/BrightSpark Fellow
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, The University of Western Australia
Modelling mitochondrial dysfunction in disease
Raine Priming Grant
$200,000
2018-2019
Dr Melissa O’Donnell
Raine/Stewart/BrightSpark Fellow
Telethon Kids Institute
Alcohol-related harm in young people: developing a longitudinal evidence base
Raine Priming Grant
$197,128
2017-2018
