De Castella Run - raising money for mental health research

On Sunday 25 August, 1600 runners and walkers helped raise almost $20,000 while enjoying sunny conditions on the beautiful Kew Boulevard to support mental health awareness and research in the 33rd annual de Castella Run. The event, named after Olympic marathoner Robert de Castella, supports innovative research being conducted at the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc). Fundraising is open until September 30. You can donate at http://decastellarun.gofundraise.com.au/payments/donate/beneficiary/708. For more information visit www.decastellarun.com.au or www.maprc.org.au.

Jody Jonathan Haigh joins the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases

Welcome to Associate Professor Jody Jonathan Haigh, who has just started at the ACBD within the CCS.  He is Canadian and recently moved his research group here from the Department for Molecular Biomedical Research (DMBR) in Flanders, Belgium which is affiliated with Ghent University and the VIB. 

Event: 2013 Annual CCS Postgraduate Research Symposium 20 Nov 2013

Central Clinical School invites you to attend the 2013 Annual Postgraduate Research Symposium. The main focus of the symposium is to improve the visibility of students and their research projects on a larger scale and celebrate their achievements. PhD students from across the AMREP precinct: Baker IDI, Burnet Institutes and Monash University's Central Clinical School are invited to showcase their results. http://www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/education/hdr-symposium.html

Event: 2013 Department of Immunology Symposium: 50 years Past & Future

This year, the Monash University Department of Immunology marks fifty years of research and education. The department is holding a symposium to showcase our achievements and current activities, and look to the future. We warmly invite you to join us for an informative and entertaining occasion. This is a unique opportunity to meet with some of immunology's greats and the young and upcoming talent being mentored by the department.

Researchers discover an Achilles heel of childhood leukaemia

Research led by Associate Professor David Curtis at the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD) has identified a protein essential for the development and growth of a type of childhood leukaemia (ETP-ALL) that responds poorly to current treatments.

2013 AMREP student information night very successful

There was a spectacular turnout for the 15 August 2013 AMREP student information tonight. Over 200 attended, some coming with their parents, chatted to potential supervisors, went on lab tours, and ate 104 pizzas! We had presentations from Prof Steve Jane (introducing the school), Prof Sharon Lewin (clinical research), A/Prof David Curtis (basic research), Jodie Abramovitch (as our representative student), and A/Prof Mark Wright (Honours coordinator), then it was a free-for-all as students visited all the research groups who had set up displays and exhibitions during the evening. See Student info night gallery, and more about Honours at CCS.

Participants sought: Tibolone for menopausal depression

 Two new clinical trials aim to discover the best treatment approach for the understudied depression that affects a large proportion of women in their late forties and fifties prior to, during or post menopause. These trials compare the effectiveness of a hormone treatment (Tibolone) for women with depression related to menopause, and that of standard antidepressant medication. Interested persons should contact Tamsyn Van Rheenen on 9076 5031 or Emmy Gavrilidis on 9076 6913 or visit www.maprc.org.au. For more about the study, see Monash story.