Thanks for sharing Lizzie! Really excited for this project and appreciate everything you do to support it. Wouldn’t be possible without you

We’re laying the groundwork for national grant success, international collaboration, and a pipeline for young researchers who care deeply about health equity.

Thank you HCRF and Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) for backing early-stage ideas that have the power to create generational change!

This work is more than just a lab project, it’s part of a broader movement to create long-term, culturally responsive solutions. We’re utilising samples from local children, collaborating with global leaders in ear disease, and embedding Indigenous governance with our Wukul Yabang community panel.

Otitis media can cause pain, hearing loss, language delays, and reduce a child’s opportunity to reach their full potential.

Thanks to funding from HCRF, my team and I are building a human cell model of the middle ear to better understand how infections start, why some children get severe disease, and how we can develop targeted treatments beyond grommets and repeated antibiotics.

Published in Springer Nature’s European Spine Journal with an incredible team of clinician and student researchers at the University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI).

🔗 Read the full article here: www.doi.org/10.1007/s005...

This research, completed as part of my medical degree, compared long-term outcomes (>1 year) after decompression alone Vs decompression with fusion surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis. Both surgeries substantially improved pain and disability scoring, but fusion was not superior.

Thanks for having me!! Learned so much about media, highly recommend to all our mob in research. Proud to be here yarning about some of our work at University of Newcastle and @hmriaustralia.bsky.social. Such a deadly team at SBS NITV!! ✊🏽