Annual Cabrini Research Forum

About the event

The Cabrini Research Forum is an annual online poster event aimed at sharing and highlighting current research across a broad range of disciplines.

Designed to complement the Cabrini Research Sessions, it is an opportunity for researchers of all experience levels in any research area to showcase their incredible work and to learn from others.

It encourages the dissemination of research activities being undertaken directly at Cabrini or in collaboration with other organisations.

The 2025 Cabrini Research Forum will take place in November

More information and a list of key dates to follow.

Please reach out to Emma Baker – ebaker@cabrini.com.au if you have a query.

2024 Winners

Medical (or other) student undertaking a research scholarship, or Honours degree Award

Student undertaking higher degree study – Masters or PhD Award

Clinician stepping into research Award

Early Career Researcher Award

Mid Career Researcher Award

Experience Research / Lead Researcher Award

People's Choice Award

2023 Winners

Medical (or other) student undertaking a research scholarship, or Honours degree Award

Student undertaking higher degree study – Masters or PhD Award

Clinician stepping into research Award

Early Career Researcher Award

Experienced Researcher / Lead Researcher Award

People’s Choice Award

2022 Winners

Medical (or other) student undertaking a research scholarship, or Honours degree Award

Winner $400 ǀ YiJie Neo – Patient selection for interval debulking surgery in ovarian cancer – a review of current guidelines (Research category: Surgical and Clinical Practices – Guidelines and Recommendations)
Runner Up $150 ǀ Denise Tiong – Reconciliation of medical records and review of opioid prescribing at Cabrini Health (Research category: Health Informatics)

Student undertaking higher degree study – Masters or PhD Award

Winner $400 ǀ Neville Fields – CO-Sprout: A pilot double-blinded randomized control trial of broccoli sprout for pregnant women with COVID-19 (Research category: Pregnancy and COVID-19 Therapy)
Runner Up $150 ǀ Natalia Smith Diaz – An opportunity to improve patient outcomes via pharmacists led medication education – a physiotherapists’ perspective (Research category: Medication Use, Safety and Health Services Research)

Clinician stepping into research Award

Winner $400 ǀ Daryl Thompson – Patient reported reasons for accepting or declining a testicular prosthesis following orchidectomy: a survey of Australian patients (Research category: Surgical and Clinical Practices – Guidelines and Recommendations)
Runner Up $150 ǀ Emmy Sneath – RECALL: Reliability of Estimates of Clinicians’ Lung cancer case load- a comparison of clinician estimates of key study eligibility criteria with data from the INHALE registry (Research category: Cancer – Health Informatics)

Early Career Researcher Award

Winner $400 ǀ Steve Foulkes – Exercise for the prevention of anthracycline-induced functional disability and cardiac dysfunction: The 12 month Breast cancer randomised Exercise InTervention (BREXIT) study (Research category: Cancer – Exercise Training Therapy)
Runner Up $150 ǀ Dilys Leung – Biobank of breast cancer organoids as a reliable drug testing platform (Research category: Cancer – Bench to Bedside Discovery)

Experienced Researcher / Lead Researcher Award

Winner $400 ǀ Gary Richardson – A phase I safety and tolerance study of FN-1501, a novel FLT3 inhibitor in patients with advanced solid tumours and acute myeloid leukemia (Research category: Cancer – Clinical Trial Progress and Outcomes)
Runner Up $150 ǀ Eva Zopf – Perceptions of exercise in people with advanced cancer and cachexia: a qualitative study (Research category: Cancer – Exercise Training Therapy)

People’s Choice Award

Winner $400 ǀ David Chieng (Higher degree, Masters or PhD student) – Effects of habitual coffee consumption on incident cardiovascular disease, arrhythmia, and mortality: Long term outcomes from the UK biobank (Research category: Cardiology Research)
Honourable Mention $100 ǀ Melissa Vereker (Clinician stepping into research) – Evaluation of residual breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (Research category: Cancer – Health Informatics)
Honourable Mention $100 ǀ Roxanne Lim (Medical student / Honours student) – A retrospective review of ‘code grey’ emergency response calls at Cabrini Malvern (Research category: Health Informatics)
Honourable Mention $100 ǀ Melissa Lee (Early Career Researcher) – Multi-vessel giant coronary artery aneurysms: Unusual cause of chest pain or incidental finding? (Research category: Cardiology Research)
Honourable Mention $100 ǀ Christine Georges Experienced Researcher / Lead Researcher) – Impact of age on pre-treatment Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in colorectal cancer: a comparison of under-50 and over 50-year-old patients (Research category: Cancer – Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs))
Lucky Voter Prize $200 ǀ Alan Tye

2021 Winners

Research Student Scholarship or new to research Award

Higher Degree Research Student Award

Winner $400 ǀ Kelcey Bland ‘Adherence rates and tolerability to a supervised virtual exercise intervention for patients with cancer cachexia’ (Category: Cancer, exercise and drug clinical trials)
Runner Up $150 ǀ David Hennes ‘Pre-clinical evaluation of immune response to stem cell boosted degradable nanostructured surgical constructs for pelvic organ prolapse’ (Category: Gynaecological Research)

Early Career Researcher Award

Winner $400 ǀ Dilys Leung ‘Enhanced epithelial-mesenchymal transition associated with platinum-resistant epithelial ovarian cancers’ (Category: Cancer, biological discovery, preclinical models)
Equal Runner Up $150 ǀ Shehara Mendis ‘Biology and clinical implications of faecal occult blood test screen detected colorectal cancer’ (Category: Cancer, data driven healthcare)
Equal Runner Up $150 ǀ Suellyn Centauri ‘Treatment outcomes for metachronous colorectal cancer metastasis isolated to the liver’ (Category: Cancer, predicting surgical outcomes)

Experienced Researcher Award

Winner $400 ǀ Rebekah Engel ‘Modelling colorectal cancer using patient-derived organoid lines to personalise cancer medicine’ (Category: Cancer, biological discovery, preclinical models)
Runner Up $150 ǀ Tali Lang ‘Patient-derived organoids: a new tool for predicting treatment responses in breast cancer’ (Category: Cancer, biological discovery, preclinical models)

Experienced Lead Researcher Award

Winner $400 ǀ Simon Wilkins ‘Tissue slice assays as an intact colorectal microenvironment for next generation drug development’ (Category: Cancer, biological discovery, preclinical models)
Runner Up $150 ǀ David Pook ‘Nivolumab plus cabozantinib (N+C) vs sunitinib for advanced renal cell carcinoma (aRCC): outcomes by baseline disease characteristics in the phase 3 CheckMate 9ER trial’ (Category: Cancer, exercise and drug clinical trials)

People’s Choice Award

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Annual Cabrini Research Forum

About the event

The 2025 Cabrini Research Forum will take place in November

2024 Winners

2023 Winners

2022 Winners

2021 Winners

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