2023 Tow Awards Winners

***Left to right:*** Nur Amalina Md Isa, Dr Ariella Heffernan-Marks, Sarah-Grace Paguinto, Dr Dominic Vickers, Dr Hannah Uebel, Jason Djafar, Christopher Chan, Annice Fulvia, and Isobel Williams.
***Absent:*** Afraah Cassim, Dr Rachel Langford, and Tayla McCutcheon.

PRIZE/S	WINNER/AWARDEE	AFFILIATION
Basic Science Division Winner Basic Science People’s Choice PhD Top-Up Scholarship	Isobel Williams Reversing the effects of prenatal opioid exposure: the efficacy of sodium butyrate in animal models.	School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, UNSW Sydney.
Basic Science Poster	Tayla McCutcheon Early life inflammation accelerates the development of emotion regulation in infant rat.	School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, UNSW Sydney.
Basic Science People’s Choice Poster	Afraah Cassim Establishing the epigenomic features of the newly discovered subtype, h3-wildtype with ezhip overexpression in diffuse midline gliomas.	Cancer Epigenetic Biology and Therapeutics, Children’s Cancer Institute.
Clinical Division Winner Clinical Division People’s Choice	Dr Hannah Uebel Out of Home Care Reduces Risk of Poor School Outcomes in Children with Prenatal Drug Exposure – A data linkage study of 901,323 Australian children.	Sydney Children’s Hospital; Randwick Clinical Campus, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health, UNSW Sydney.
Clinical Division Poster	Dr Rachel Langford Analysis of the utility of morning cortisol in screening for adrenal insufficiency.	Departments of Rheumatology & Nuclear Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital.
Clinical Poster People’s Choice	Dr Ariella Heffernan-Marks What barriers do reproductive-age women experience when navigating healthcare and can a women’s health A.I tool (OVUM.) improve their engagement in preventative health activities?	Midwifery & Women’s Health Nursing Research Unit, Royal Hospital for Women.
Nurse / Midwife / Allied Health Division Winner Nurse / Midwife / Allied Health People’s Choice	Sarah-Grace Paguinto Getting Wheels: Development and evaluation of a psychoeducational resource for parents of children with a neuromuscular condition following recommendation of wheelchair equipment.	Occupational Therapy Department, Sydney Children’s Hospital.
Independent Learning Project & Honours Division Winner Independent Learning Project & Honours People’s Choice	Jason Djafar Characterising common phenotypes across the childhood dementia disorders – a cross-sectional study from two Australian centers.	Sydney Children’s Hospital; School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health, UNSW Sydney.
Independent Learning Project & Honours Poster	Christopher Chan The prevalence of PKS+ E.coli in cystic fibrosis.	Gastroenterology; Sydney Children’s Hospital; School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health, UNSW Sydney.
Independent Learning Project & Honours People’s Choice Poster	Annice Fulvia Evaluating Impact of Pectus Excavatum Deformity on Respiratory Function in Children and Adolescents.	Respiratory Medicine, Sydney Children’s Hospital; School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health, UNSW Sydney.
Case Presentation Division Winner Case Presentation People’s Choice	Dr Dominic Vickers Checkmate by checkpoint; no-one’s immune to a broken heart.	Department of Cardiology, Prince of Wales Hospital.