4 Aug 2017

Video of the week: Tori Berquist describes the BMedSc(Hons) experience at CCS

Tori Berquist talks about her experience doing a Bachelor of Medicine Honours year at the Alfred in this video from 13 July 2017 AMREP information night. She continues on research projects and her medical education at the precinct. Find out more:

What's on at CCS 7-11 August 2017

Julia Liang is presenting on
Tues 8 Aug
Central Clinical School (CCS) has regular seminar series and postgraduate presentations. Event notices are posted on the CCS Events calendar.

CCS staff and students can see details of both public and local events (including professional development courses, trade fairs and Graduate Research Student calendars) and deadlines, at the CCS intranet's Announcements page

See CCS seminar index: www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/events/seminars.html

What's on at CCS 7-11 August 2017

CCS publications update: 29 July - 4 August 2017

Prof Andrew Wei in the lab. He and colleagues have published a
recent paper in Leukemia, on improved targeted therapy for AML.
Image: Corey Nassau
Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for pubs listing. Linked headings are to the departments' home pages.
  • Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine (AIRMed)
  • Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD) 
  • Diabetes
  • Gastroenterology
  • Immunology and Pathology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc) 
  • Medicine
  • Surgery 

CCS PhD student profile: Matthew Snelson

Matthew Snelson in the CCS 3MT heat
By Matt Jane

Matthew Snelson, 2017 CCS 3MT winner, is a PhD student at the Department of Diabetes in the Glycation, Nutrition and Metabolism lab where he is supervised by Associate Professor Melinda Coughlan.

Matthew completed a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and a Postgraduate Diploma of Dietetics at Curtin University, Perth. Matthew has also completed an Honours degree looking at diet and brain barrier dysfunction as well as a  Postgraduate Diploma of Biotechnology at Swinburne University.

Congratulations to Devy Deliyanti on JDRF Post-doctoral Fellowship

Dr Devy Deliyanti receives a three 
year JRDF Post-doc fellowship
Congratulations to Dr Devy Deliyanti, on receiving a three-year Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Post-doctoral Fellowship.  Dr Deliyanti, a Research Fellow in the Diabetic Retinopathy Lab, Department of Diabetes is one of only two Australians to receive the fellowship this year.

The award will enable Devy to evaluate if boosting the immunosuppressive capacity of regulatory T cells improves retinal disease in type 1 diabetes. Devy will interrogate the efficacy of various treatment approaches in animal models of diabetic retinopathy and build upon her recent first author paper in Nature Communications (in press).

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...