(Left to right) Bimbi Gray, Dr Kenji Fujita, Kate Bryce, Pablo Cruz-Granados and Dr Noriko Sato
Beryl and Jack Jacobs Travel Awards announced A total of $40,000 will be shared amongst five emerging Kolling researchers who will have the chance to develop their skills and increase the impact of their research. The travel opportunities have been made possible through the Skipper Jacobs Charitable Trust and are set to help raise the profile of the Kolling Institute globally. The 2025 recipients include:
patients using data from six hospitals in NSW. She will present the frailty study at the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology conference in Washington and chair an international symposium at the Japanese Society of Social Pharmacy. Kate Bryce: travelling to North Carolina and Florida, USA Kate, a PhD student with the Osteoarthritis Clinical Research Group at Kolling, investigates the use of digital technologies to encourage behaviour change in the treatment of osteoarthritis. Kate will attend the 2026 Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) World Congress in the USA, where she will meet with experts in behaviour change and implementation science, including collaborators from Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University. Kate says the trip will enhance the broader rollout of the ATLAS clinician eLearning platform for osteoarthritis and a mobile app for knee osteoarthritis named OA Coach. Bimbi Gray: travelling to Florida and North Carolina, USA Bimbi, a PhD candidate also with the Osteoarthritis Clinical Research Group, will also attend the OARSI World Congress and deliver a presentation on the ATLAS program. Her trip is set to strengthen partnerships with leaders at the Thurston Arthritis Research Centre in North Carolina and the Arthritis Foundation’s Osteoarthritis Action Alliance. These collaborations will speed the implementation of ATLAS with insights to refine and scale the program for broader adoption. Academic Director Professor James Elliott congratulated the recipients, and thanked the Skipper family and the NORTH Foundation for their ongoing support.
Pablo Cruz-Granados: travelling to Spain Pablo, a PhD candidate within the Kolling’s Menière’s Disease Neuroscience Lab, will complete a three-month stay with the Otology and Neurotology group at the University of Granada. During his visit, Pablo will investigate the clinical phenotypes of Ménière’s Disease to gain a better understanding of its presentation in different populations. He also hopes to learn more about the mechanisms underlying the disease. Dr Kenji Fujita: travelling to Denmark and Japan Kenji, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Departments of Clinical Pharmacology and Aged Care has helped develop a real-time calculation system to measure frailty in older hospitalised adults. During his trip, he will deliver a keynote address at the International Pharmaceutical Federation conference in Copenhagen on innovative approaches to reduce the inappropriate use of medications in older adults. He will also meet with research partners in Japan to advance their collaborative project analysing medication data from millions of older adults across community pharmacies in Japan. Dr Noriko Sato: travelling to Washington, USA and Wakayama, Japan Noriko is a research fellow within the Kolling who specialises in frailty research in older
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