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MyHeart MyLife Health professional program guide

Get your copy of the MyHeart MyLife program guide for health professionals to access all articles and videos from the program.

Future Leader Fellowship – Level 1
Grant ID Researcher Administering Institute State Research Category Project Title
110333-2025_FLF Niamh Chapman University of Sydney New South Wales Clinical, Public health, Health services Improving hypertension management in primary care
109973-2025_FLF Alexandra Jones University of New South Wales New South Wales Public health Strengthening the use of law to reduce diet-related diseases in Australia
109807-2025_FLF Rebecca Kozor University of Sydney New South Wales Clinical Genetic cardiomyopathies – improving diagnosis, mechanistic insights, and evaluating new therapies
110369-2025_FLF Nitesh Nerlekar Monash University Victoria Clinical, Public health Leveraging mammograms for the early identification of cardiovascular risk: a 2-for-1 benefit using established screening programs
109309-2025_FLF Holly Voges Murdoch Children's Research Institute Victoria Biomedical Improving Rheumatic Heart Disease treatment with a novel stem cell model of heart valve tissue

Meet the finalists

The Twenty of the Best (top 20 applicants) were selected from 223 expressions of interest received. They were selected for their ambitious ideas that are innovative, impactful, feasible and fundable.

Explore our finalists' big ideas and bold solutions in the videos below.

Clinical | Data and informatics | First Nations

Medical devices| Policy and implementation | Therapeutics

Clinical

A doctor using technology to conduct heart research

Stroke of genius: telerobotic clot removal reaching rural Australia

Medical devices

Message from the heart: a new solution to screen for blood vessel calcification

Next-generation 3D-printed heart valves: designed to last, built to heal

Data and informatics

HeartStrong: better cardiac care for every heart

Digital hearts: using big data and AI to predict heart disease and test treatments safely

First Nations

Earlier screening, risk reduction and better management of chronic disease – a whole of community approach

Policy and implementation

Springfield Healthy Hearts: local action to revolutionise global action on CVD through a living laboratory

Therapeutics

Plugging the holes in our blood vessels to combat dementia

Last updated16 October 2025

Last reviewed19 November 2024