Dr Molla Wassie
Senior Research Fellow
College of Medicine and Public Health
Dr Molla Wassie, an NHMRC Emergining Leadership Fellow, is a Clinical and Nutritional Epidemiologist with advanced statistical analysis skills. He obtained his PhD from the University of Adelaide and received the Dean’s Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence.
Before completing his PhD, Molla was a lecturer and researcher at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia and was the head of Human Nutrition department at the Institute of Public Health. He established a nutritional surveillance program in Northwest Ethiopia with his colleagues.
Molla earned a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Hawassa University and a Master of Science in Applied Human Nutrition from the University of Gondar, Ethiopia.
Molla’s current research focuses on optimising colorectal cancer prevention and surveillance strategies.
BSC, MSC, PhD
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2026-2029 |
$2,739,936 |
Cancer Australia 2025 CARI TCR Early-Onset Cancer (Chief Investigator) Next-Generation Screening: a risk-based model for the timely detection and prevention of early-onset colorectal cancer |
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2026-2028 |
$24,628 |
Flinders Foundation Seed Grant (Chief investigator A): Identifying nutritional challenges following colorectal cancer surgery: a mixed-methods study |
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2026-2028 |
$24,935 |
Flinders Foundation Seed Grant (Associate investigator): Development and validation of an AI–driven predictive triage system for colonoscopy referral |
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2026-2027 |
$10,567 |
FHMRI Cancer Impact Program EMCR Seed Grant (Chief investigator A): Optimising FIT positivity threshold in males and females in CRC screening in Australia |
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2026 |
$2,500 |
FHMRI Early Mid-Career Researchers Publication Grant |
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2023 |
$2,500 |
vice Chancellor's Award for Early Career Researchers, Flinders University |
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2023-2024 |
$24,636 |
Flinders Foundation Cancer Seed Grant (Chief investigator A): Should we continue or stop surveillance for colorectal cancer in older persons aged over 75 years? |
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2022-2026 |
$650,740 |
NHMRC Emerging Leadership 1 Investigator Grant (Chief investigator A): Personalising colorectal cancer prevention strategies with a risk stratification tool |
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2022-2025 |
$1,980,810 |
MRFF, 2020 Genomics Health Futures Mission (Associate investigator): A liquid biopsy DNA methylation blood test for personalised treatment of patients with gastrointestinal cancers |
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2022-2024 |
$881,020 |
NHMRC 2021 Ideas Grant (Associate investigator) Do patients with symptoms need a colonoscopy? A novel panel of non-invasive biomarkers to determine need for diagnostic investigation |
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2020 |
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Dean’s Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, University of Adelaide, Australia |
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2016-2020 |
$110,904 |
Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship |
Since Jan 2022- NHMRC Investigator Fellow- Emerging Leadership Level 1, Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University.
Nov 2020- Dec 2021: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer, College of Medicine and Public health, Flinders University
June 2020-Nov 2020: Research Assistant, Department of Food and Nutrition, Waite Campus, The University fo Adelade
2017-2020: Teaching Academics, Department of Food and Nutrition, Waite Campus, The University of Adelaide
2009 - 2020: Research and Teaching Academics, Department of Nutrition, Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar
Epidemiology, Nutrition, Research Methods
- Head: Human Nutrition Department, Institute of Public Health, University of Gondar, 2014-2016
- Member: Nutrition society of Australia, 2017 to date
- Member: The American society of Nutrition, 2019 to date
- Member: Ethiopian Public Health Association (EPHA), March 2007 to date.
- Trainer: Nutrition technical update courses for Ethiopian Health Professionals teaching Nutrition courses at higher education institutions.
- Cancer
- Epidemiology
- Nutrition
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