Dr Alex Tang has become the first WA recipient of a Young Investigator Grant from New York’s Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. The Perron Institute and UWA neuroscientist will use $100,000 to look at how magnetic brain stimulation enhances neural plasticity.
WA nutrition expert Associate Professor Christina Pollard has been made a life member of the Public Health Association of Australia. Since 1994, she has advocated for improved food and nutrition, playing a key role in the Go for 2&5 campaign.
Royal Perth Hospital and the WA Museum Boola Bardip have created a photographic exhibition of the staff and patients in the days and months following the 2002 Bali bombings. Remembering the Bali bombings: 20 years on will be open until February 12 next year.
Dr Stephanie Godrich from Edith Cowan University is heading Food Community, a project aimed at giving people better access to healthy food, which is being rolled out across WA after a successful trial.
Curtin University is a big winner in the latest National Health and Medical Research Council and Medical Research Future Fund grants, with $800,000 for a project to increase COVID vaccination rates in Aboriginal women, and almost $3 million to develop online tools that will help predict the effects of mild traumatic brain injuries.