Austal Giving

In 2006 the hardworking staff at Austal started their own version of the Freo Doctor Lottery and have retained that commitment to fundraising every year since. Austal Company matches every dollar raised by their employees and to date more than $250,000 has been donated to Spinnaker, meaning we can fund an additional research project each year.
“Austal is very proud of, and grateful for the opportunity to support the Spinnaker Health Research Foundation – to help fund medical research projects that are making a real difference to people’s lives in our local community.” said Paul Sparke, Austal’s Marketing Manager.
Paul said the team at Austal was really proud to have helped to achieve real breakthroughs in the treatment of a number of medical conditions over the past 14 years. “We look forward to continuing our valued relationship and building upon our past successes to help even more people in our community.”
2007 | The significance of the interaction between two genes in iron overload disease | Dr Ross Graham, |
2008 | Do zinc transporters play a role in iron overload? | Dr Ross Graham, |
2009 | Influence of two mutations on liver iron loading. | Dr Ross Graham, |
2010 | Understanding why Southern European migrants have an increased risk of diabetes and it’s complications. | Dr Brett Sillars |
2011 | Non-transferrin bound iron in disorders of iron overload. | Mr Roheeth Delima |
2012 | Use of skin thickness measured by high frequency ultrasound as an indicator of leg ulcer healing in patients with chronic venous disease. | Dr Thanuja Athukoralalage |
2012 | Differences in innate immune signalling of patients | Dr Angela Chew, |
2014 | Modulating Toll-like receptor signalling and complex assembly by phosphatidycholine to prevent intestinal fibrostenosis in patients with Crohn’s disease. | Dr A C Chew |
2015 | Diabetes in Aboriginals – An autoimmune disease? | A/Prof Wendy Davis |
2016 | Using liver slice cultures to analyse the role of two | Mr Francis Gratte |
2017 | Do patients with type 2 diabetes and foot ulcers have problems with memory and self-care? | Dr Emma J Hamilton |