We are pleased to announce the successful recipients of our annual Kolling Institute awards program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Launched in 2021, the program has been expanded to acknowledge a greater number of researchers and their individual contribution to the Kolling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The awards aim to recognise the many outstanding achievements across education, clinical practice and service, publications, research, as well as overall accomplishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year, seven researchers are being presented with awards across the following five categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PhD impact (joint award winners)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Danielle Stone – Clinical Speech Pathologist, RNSH, and PhD candidate, Neuromuscular Imaging Research Lab<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Michal Lubomski – Neurologist, RNSH and PhD Candidate, Neurogenetics Research<\/p>\n\n\n\n Supervision impact (joint award winners)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Associate Professor Sarah Glastras – Endocrinologist, RNSH and Postdoctoral Researcher, Renal Research Laboratory<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Sumit Sahni – Senior Research Fellow, Bill Walsh Cancer Research Lab<\/p>\n\n\n\n Best clinical output<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Jillian Eyles – Physiotherapist, RNSH and SHPs Research Translation Fellow, Osteoarthritis Research<\/p>\n\n\n\n Best EMCR basic science paper<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Chia-chi Liu – Senior Research Fellow, Cardiac Membrane Biology Laboratory<\/p>\n\n\n\n Best paper overall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Yandong Shen – Postdoctoral Researcher, Northern Blood Research Centre<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kolling Institute Academic Director Professor Jim Elliott congratulated the researchers for their invaluable contribution over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s encouraging that we have so many dynamic researchers working across the Kolling, and this impressive group has had an intrinsic role in our progress, impact and research success over the past year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEach of these award winners is driving substantial improvements in their individual areas of expertise, and I\u2019m pleased that through the Kolling awards program we\u2019re able to direct the spotlight to their significant achievements.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2162,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"research-group-tax":[],"primary-research-area":[],"class_list":["post-2159","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumb_Blog_Alternate-group_w550_h380_fcrop.webp",550,380,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumb_Blog_Alternate-group_w550_h380_fcrop-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumb_Blog_Alternate-group_w550_h380_fcrop-300x207.webp",300,207,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumb_Blog_Alternate-group_w550_h380_fcrop.webp",550,380,false],"large":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumb_Blog_Alternate-group_w550_h380_fcrop.webp",550,380,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumb_Blog_Alternate-group_w550_h380_fcrop.webp",550,380,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumb_Blog_Alternate-group_w550_h380_fcrop.webp",550,380,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"ict-wordpress-support@sydney.edu.au","author_link":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/staging\/author\/ict-wordpress-supportsydney-edu-au\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"We are pleased to announce the successful recipients of our annual Kolling Institute awards program. 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