Both Paul Keall and Tess Reynolds have been awarded highly competitive NHMRC Investigator Grants. These are 5-year grants that support the investigators and provide a research support package. As is Image X tradition, we have celebrated with sugar – the team were treated to gelatos on the afternoon the good news came in.
Paul Keall, awarded $3M – Advancing image guided radiation therapy from discovery to clinical practiceIn this Investigator Grant I will dramatically improve cancer treatment outcomes by advancing a pipeline of image guided radiation therapy innovations from discovery to clinical practice. As radiation therapy is recommended for half of the 20 million cases of cancer diagnosed annually around the world, advanced radiation therapy innovations from this grant will impact over 10 million cancer patients every year.
Tess Reynolds, awarded $1.6M – Unlocking the future of robotic imaging for surgical procedural navigation and verification.
Robotic imaging systems have revolutionised surgical interventions.
To deliver the future of 3D image guidance for challenging surgical interventions, where options remain limited, I will develop imaging technologies that promise to allow direct in-room surgical verification of orthopaedic hardware, adaptively sync to the patient to mitigate motion without mechanical intervention and facilitate long anatomical sites to be captured in a single image to assess anatomy alignment intraoperatively.