Each year the AWTRS awards a number of International and National Awards to support Early Career Researchers attending a wound and/or tissue repair related conference. These awards enable our Early Career Researcher members to attend and present their research to the wound and tissue repair community and to make new connections with others in the field.

This year, travel awards will be available to support AWTRS members in presenting their research at the societies biennial meeting. The 2026 AWTRS Conference will be held from 26 – 28 August 2026 in Adelaide, South Australia

Details of the travel awards, eligibility and how to apply are sent to AWTRS members and colleagues through our email list and on our LinkedIn account. If you are not on the AWTRS email list and would like to subscribe please contact Rachael Moses

 

Past Recipients

 

YearRecipients
2025Anna Antipov (UniSA) awarded $1000 to attend the to attend the 2025 European Tissue Repair Society (ETRS) conference, Cardiff, Wales (Sept 2025)
Alex Logothetis (UniMelb) awarded $1000 to attend the to attend the 2025 European Tissue Repair Society (ETRS) conference, Cardiff, Wales (Sept 2025)
Ruth Simpson (UniSA) awarded $1000 to attend the 2026 Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) conference, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (April 2026).
2023Nutan Chaudhari (UWA), awarded $1000 to attend the World Congress of Dermatology, Singapore (July 2023)
Caitlin Berry-Kilgour (Uni of Otago), awarded $1000 to attend the 13th Asia Pacific Marine Biotechnology Conference and the 5th Australian and New Zealand Marine Biotechnology Society, Adelaide, 2023
Hanif Haidari (UniSA), awarded $1000 to attend the World Biomaterials Congress, South Korea, May 2024.
2021Alireza Hassanshahi (UniSA), awarded $500 to attend the World Union Wound Healing Society Conference (virtual meeting)
Dr Jiao-Jiao-Li (UTS), awarded $450 to attend the TERMIS 6th World Congress (virtual meeting)
2020Dr Christopher Turner (UBC),Wound Healing Society Conference 2020
Dr Katie Sizeland (CSIRO), World Biomaterials Congress 2020
2019Dr Christopher Turner (UBC), awarded $500 to attend the 5th International Conference on Skin Integrity and Infection Prevention, British Columbia, April 2019
Zhenjun Deng (UWA), awarded $1000 to attend the 3rd International Keloid Symposium, Beijing, April 2019
Nutan Chaudhari (UWA), awarded $1000 to attend the 3rd International Keloid Symposium, Beijing, April 2019
Parinaz Ahangar (UniSA), awarded $500 to attend the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy, Melbourne, May 2019
2018Dr Xanthe Strudwick (UniSA), awarded $1000 to attend ScarConETRS 2018 Congress, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 31 – June 2, 2018
Ruilong Zhao (USyd), awarded $1000 to attend the European Wound Management Association Conference, Krakow, Poland, May 9-11, 2018
Huan Ting Ong (Ear Science Institute), awarded $500 to attend the International Society for Stem Cell Research Conference, Melbourne, Australia, June 20-23, 2018
2017Gink Yang (UniSA), awarded $1000 to attend the European Tissue Repair Society Annual Conference, Brussels, Belgium, September 13-16, 2017
Christine Andrews (UQ), awarded $1000 to attend the 17th European Burns Association Congress, Barcelona, Spain, September 6-9, 2017\
Dr Brooke Farrugia (UNSW), awarded $1000 to attend the 7 Lakes Proteoglycans International Conference, Varese, Italy, September 10-14, 2017 
2016Behnaz Aghaei (USyd), awarded $1000 to attend the American Meeting of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society, San Diego, December 11-14, 2016
Dan Broszczak (QUT), awarded $1000 to attend the Singapore International Conference on Skin Research, Singapore, April 18-21, 2016
Zlatko Kopecki (UniSA), awarded $1000 to attend the 5th World Union Wound Healing Society Conference, Florence, Italy, September 25-29, 2016
2015Joan Rohl (QUT), awarded $1000 to attend the 7th Joint Meeting of the European Tissue Repair Society & the Wound Healing Society, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 21-23, 2015
Dr Brooke Farrugia (UNSW), awarded $1000 to attend the 9th International Conference on Proteoglycans/10th Pan Pacific Connective Tissue Societies Symposium, Seoul, Korea, August 23-27 2015
2014Dr Tara Fernadez (UniSA), awarded $1000 to attend 24th annual meeting of the European Tissue Repair Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 10-12, 2014
Dr Zlatko Kopecki (UniSA), awarded $1000 to attend the Wound Healing Society Meeting Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 23-27, 2014
Heng Teck Chong (UniSA), awarded $500 to attend the 2014 Cutaneous Biology Meeting on North Stradbroke Island, September 22-26, 2014
Dr Stuart Mills (UniSA), awarded $500 to attend the 2014 Cutaneous Biology Meeting on North Stradbroke Island, September 22-26, 2014
2013Dr Brooke Farrugia (UNSW), awarded $1000 to attend the 9th Pan Pacific Connective Tissues meeting in Hong Kong from November 24-27, 2013
Dan Broszczak (QUT), $1000 to attend European Tissue Repair Society Meeting, Reims, France, October 23-25, 2013
Dr James Broadbent (QUT), awarded $500 to visit the Heart Research Institute in Sydney
2012Dr Melissa Fernadez (QUT), awarded $1000 to attend the 4th WUWHS 2012, Yokohama, Japan, September 2-6, 2012
Dario Stupar (QUT), awarded $1000 to attend the 4th WUWHS 2012, Yokohama, Japan, September 2-6, 2012
2011Dr Stuart Mills (UniSA), awarded $1000 to attend the 21st Annual Meeting of ETRS in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 5-7, 2011
Dr Jacqui McGovern (QUT), awarded $1000 to attend the 21st Annual Meeting of ETRS