“Research is about striving for excellence and never settling for now being the best we can do.”

DR ED LITTON, DIRECTOR OF ICU RESEARCH, FIONA STANLEY HOSPITAL

Spinnaker is at the forefront of trail-blazing research, built on our long history of funding world-class medical discoveries. Our strategy is focused on solutions to the chronic health issues that impact our community the most.

Our Pioneering Strategy

Our growing Western Australian community needs innovative health solutions. We have the talent to deliver life-changing care but there is a gap in funding for trail-blazing research. With community support, Spinnaker aims to initiate funding and grants for novel innovations, treatments and equipment to achieve our core objectives.

OUR CORE OBJECTIVES

inspire


local medical and allied health practitioners to solve prevalent health issues confronting the community.

jumpstart


the careers of early researchers.

address


the gaps in focussed areas within community health.

Key Focus Areas

Transformational Discoveries and Long
Term Health Outcomes.

At Spinnaker, we've made it our mission to improve community health outcomes in Western Australia through investment in ground-breaking innovations and community-to-bench translational medical research.

Men's Health

Addressing the inequities of health outcomes for West Australian men and boys.

Learn more about MHT Foundation here

Western Australian men continue to experience poorer health outcomes than women across almost every indicator of physical and mental health and wellbeing. They are overrepresented in early death from heart disease, suicide, diabetes and cancer and live with a total disease burden greater than women. Our research, led by specialists at Fiona Stanley Hospital seeks to prevent early death and life impacting conditions. If we do it together, we can make our men and boys healthier.

Family Health

Equal access for every child to world-leading public health services.

By working with families, and in partnership with health and wellbeing practitioners, we seek to ensure every child in Western Australia has equal access to world-leading public health services, supported by evidenced based interventions, at the earliest possible time. Our program of comprehensive, translational research will inform policy, impact practice and provide easy, early, adaptable for to adopt healthier lifestyles, maximise the health of their children and minimise the burden of metabolic disease in later life.

Melanoma

Improving patient outcomes through ground-breaking advancements in diagnosis, treatment, and care.

Western Australia is second only to QLD in terms of melanoma incidence across Australia.

Early career research & seed funding

Investing in pioneering ideas while facilitating a culture of aspirational innovation in health research.

Advocacy and Education

Facilitating the translation of research to ensure West Australia's public health services are the best in the world.

Researcher Spotlight

Melanoma: Finding a cure that impacts us all.

PROFESSOR ADNAN KHATTAK.

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Our Research Stories

Neonatology: A healthier start in life

Dr Shail Mehta

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The hidden challenge of hearing loss

Dr Dayse Tavora-Vieira

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The greatest healthcare challenge in a century

Professor Jeremy Nicholson

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Our Researchers

WARREN PAVEY, CARDIAC ANAESTHETIST

The more research you do, the more invested you get, and it becomes more and more meaningful.

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DR ANNETTE MCWILLIAMS, MEDICAL ONCOLOGIST AND CANCER CLINICAL TRIAL LEAD AT FIONA STANLEY HOSPITAL.

For the rest of my career, lung cancer will remain the biggest cancer killer of Australians. It kills more women than breast cancer.

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DR DAYSE TAVORA-VIEIRA, RESEARCHER AND HEAD OF AUDIOLOGY, FIONA STANLEY HOSPITAL

The reality is that patients with single-sided deafness go through many issues that are totally ignored in the community.

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DR SHAIL MEHTA, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AND CONSULTANT NEONATOLOGIST, FIONA STANLEY HOSPITAL

One core focus of our research is the environment in utero to the first few days of life. It's probably the most crucial period that programs the baby's health for the rest of their life.

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DR ED LITTON, HEAD OF ICU RESEARCH, FIONA STANLEY HOSPITAL

Over 150,000 Australians a year are admitted to an intensive care unit. So continuing to foster the best and the brightest is critically important.

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A/PROF NINA TIRNITZ-PARKER, CURTIN UNIVERSITY

In biomedical research, we all have the ultimate goal to help patients and their families.

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Interested in doing research?

We offer a variety of research grants, click view grants for more details.

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Western Australia is home to incredibly talented and dedicated doctors, nurses and allied health practitioners who are inspired to find innovative solutions to improve the health of our community.


Cuts to grant funding mean that some promising research never gets funded. Without further support, our community risks losing talented researchers across WA whose ideas and blue-sky thinking have the power to transform our lives. The time to act is now.

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