Lindon Wing Collaborative Research Grant
As Dean of the School of Medicine at Flinders University from 1998 to 2007, Emeritus Professor Lindon Wing OAM valued the improvements that innovative research brought to medical science.
His research formed crucial platforms in the advancement of blood pressure control and the broader understanding of clinical pharmacology. As co-author of the inaugural Australian Medicines Handbook in 1998, his deep understanding of clinical pharmacology contributed to a comprehensive pharmaceutical compendium for every doctor and pharmacist in Australia. It immediately became an essential reference tool and remains so to this day.
Now, the Lindon Wing Collaborative Research Grant – commemorating the influence of Emeritus Professor Wing, who passed away in 2021, aged 78 - will foster innovations in medical research through a grants program that supports collaborative research between health and medical researchers at Flinders University and clinician researchers at SA Health.
Barbara Wing says, “Supporting research is so important in developing new ideas.”
Combining forces to address the leading cause of chronic liver disease, research by the University’s Associate Professor Andrew Rowland and SA Health clinician Dr Kate Muller has been supported by a grant. An innovative research approach to Type 1 diabetes by the University’s Professor Claire Jessup and SA Health’s Professor Toby Coates has also been supported.
Emeritus Professor Wing’s wife Barbara Wing and his two daughters are proud that his research legacy will continue. Along with donations from friends, family and fellow-researchers, Barbara has contributed generously to the fund in her husband’s name.
“Supporting research is so important in developing new ideas and innovative solutions to important clinical questions,” says Barbara Wing, who welcomes further donations to bolster the Lindon Wing Research Fund.
She says Emeritus Professor Wing vigorously promoted research among clinicians and scientists of all levels.
“Lindon saw research as being more productive when a clinician’s work was linked with a scientist, as it provided a better result, faster. The fund will help to keep facilitating this, across broad ideas, and to stimulate fresh outcomes.”
Barbara believes this funding will provide an essential opportunity to initiate research and generate early results. She hopes the recipients will then be able to use these early results to be competitive for larger research grants to continue their research.
“It will be so valuable to promote both clinicians and researchers to pursue the same line of critical thinking about medical research that was so much a part of Lindon and his career in Medicine,” says Barbara.
“It will produce results – and that is so very gratifying.”
Donate today to support collaborations in medical research between Flinders University and SA Health, and to honour the life and work of Emeritus Professor Lindon Wing OAM.
100% of your tax-deductible donation will support collaborative research and the development of new knowledge through the Lindon Wing Collaborative Research Grant.
Published August 2023. Author: David Sly
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