Women's & Children's Hospital - Young Investigator Award Abstracts

About the Award

THE WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD

LIST OF ENTRANTS & ABSTRACTS

Below are the entrants competing for the WCH Young Investigator Award 2002.
Click on name to see details of abstracts and significance of research to health of Women and Children.

*Three were selected for the YIA Finals, held on Tuesday 19 March 2002.
The Award has gone to Karen Lower

Name	Department	Title of Project
Catherine Gibson	Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
Briony Gliddon	Lysosomal Diseases Research Unit, Chemical Pathology	Enzyme replacement therapy in MPS IIIA mice
Katie Inglis	Centre for Paediatric and Adolescent Gastroenterology	The Sucrose Breath Test (SBT) - A Novel Non-Invasive Test For Assessment Of Intestinal Mucositis In Children Undergoing Chemotherapy
*Wendy Ingman	Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Adelaide University	Infertility caused by a deficiency in the protein Transforming Growth Factor beta1 in mice
*Karen Lower	Cytogenetics & Molecular Genetics	Mutations in a novel PHD zinc finger gene cause BFLS
Marie Mangelsdorf	Cytogenetics & Molecular Genetics	Mutations in the gene ARX cause syndromic and non-specific X-linked mental retardation
Jason Powell	Cytogenetics & Molecular Genetics	Sequencing, Transcript Identification and Quantitative gene expression profiling in the breast cancer loss of heterozygosity region 16q24.3 reveals a number of potential tumour suppressor genes
*Aaron Robinson	Lysosomal Diseases Research Unit, Chemical Pathology	Neural stem cell therapy for treatment of brain pathology in the alpha-mannosidosis guinea pig
Caroline Smith	Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Adelaide University	Acupuncture to treat nausea and vomiting in early pregnancy
Michael Spencer	Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Adelaide University	Who will deliver the next generation of Australians?
Erin Symonds	Centre for Paediatric and Adolescent Gastroenterology	Loss of small intestinal sucrase activity in a mouse model of Helicobacter pylori
Andrew Wilson	Pulmonary Medicine	The effect of intrauterine growth restriction on postnatal lung function: the fetal origins of postnatal lung disease

Last revised: Wednesday, 20-Mar-2002 14:31:26 CST
URL:http://www.wch.sa.gov.au/wchweek/investigator/abstract.html