Honours scholarships awarded!
The Rio Tinto Children’s Diabetes Centre; A JDRF Global Centre of Excellence (the Centre), announces inaugural Honours Scholarships for students dedicated to type 1 diabetes research.
The recipients of the Centre’s first round of Honours Scholarships have been awarded to two emerging students from across Australia and New Zealand.
These scholarships, consisting of a $5000 award, are designed to develop and support their type 1 diabetes (T1D) related research as part of their Honours degree.
Congratulations goes to:
Peter Delaney, an Honours student at the University of Western Australia, for his Honours project 'Investigating vitamin D levels during pregnancy and the first year of life and the risk of developing islet autoantibodies in Australian children who are at risk of type 1 diabetes' He will be supervised by Dr Aveni Haynes from The Kids Research Institute Australia.
Venus Cahusac de Caux, an Honours student at the University of Otago (New Zealand), for her Honours project 'The Co-Pilot trial – Closed Loop in children and youth with type 1 diabetes and high-risk glycaemic control.' She will be supervised by Dr Martin de Bock and Dr Ben Wheeler.
*Peter and Aveni at The Kids Research Institute Australia *Venus Cahusac de Caux