Cybec Scholarships

The Cybec Foundation has a vision to provide educational opportunities that change lives and address the grand challenges of the age. This highly prestigious and impactful support provides students with the financial assistance needed to fully focus on their studies, and realise their potential.

The Cybec Foundation's focus continues to be to support talented students who have faced hardship or disadvantage on their journey to undertake postgraduate studies, whose research is focussed on human endeavour and is of benefit to society.

The Cybec Scholarships take the form of a top-up for students who have already been awarded a scholarship, with some recipients receiving additional scholarship support for research costs. When offered, the Faculty invites eligible students to apply for the scholarship. The applications include evidence of hardship or disadvantage faced, the research that is or will be undertaken, and a statement of the anticipated impact of the scholarship on the students’ candidature.

The applications are assessed by the Faculty Associate Dean Graduate Research and other Faculty research leaders.

There were two recipients of the Cybec Scholarship in 2022, and three in 2026.

2026

  • Stephanie Manovella, Drug Discovery Biology
    Supervisor:  Professor James Murphy
    Research project: Unravelling the role of dark kinases and their role in Prostate Cancer
  • Seyed Bahador Mir Rahimi, Centre for Medicine, Use and Safety
    Supervisor: Dr Emily Reeve
    Research project: Assessing and Preventing withdrawal syndromes in deprescribing: A Patient Safety Approach
  • Cerys Trubshaw, Centre for Medicine, Use and Safety
    Supervisor: Professor Carl Kirkpatrick
    Research project: Application of Pharmacometrics to vulnerable populations, aiming to improve patient health.

2022

  • Tobias Morris, Medicinal Chemistry
    Supervisor: Associate Professor David Chalmers
    Research project: Computer-aided discovery of PROTAC ligands as anti-viral therapeutics to target NSPs of SARS-CoV-2
  • Chloe Landy, Drug Discovery Biology
    Supervisor: Dr Chengxue Helena Qin
    Research project: Sexual Dimorphism of Pro-Resolving Pathways in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

You can read more about the history of the Cybec Foundation’s support as well as other generous donor stories in the Alchemy article from 2025/26.

Further enquiries: pharm-gr-candidiature@monash.edu