Each year the AWTRS awards a number of International and National Travel 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.

Details of the travel awards, eligibility and how to apply are sent to AWTRS members and colleagues through our email list and on our twitter account (@_AWTRS). If you are not on the AWTRS email list and would like to subscribe please contact Lyn Wise (lyn.wise@otago.ac.nz)

Past Recipients

Year      Recipients
2023
  • Nutan 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.
2021
  • Alireza 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)
2020
  • Dr Christopher Turner (UBC),Wound Healing Society Conference 2020
  • Dr Katie Sizeland (CSIRO), World Biomaterials Congress 2020
2019
  • Dr 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
2018
  • Dr 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
2017
  • Gink 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
2016
  • Behnaz 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
2015
  • Joan 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
2014
  • Dr 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
2013
  • Dr 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
2012
  • Dr 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
2011
  • Dr 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 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 5-7, 2011