14 Aug 2014 Central Clinical School student information night for 2015 intake

Information night for 2015 Central Clinical School Postgraduate and Honours student intake is to be held on Thursday 14 August 2014. Download the 2015 CCS Postgraduate and Honours project index booklet (806 kb pdf).  Faculty student research project database has all details about the projects.
Event details: 6-8 pm at the AMREP lecture theatre, 80 Commercial Road, Melbourne 3004
Enquiries: hdr.ccs@monash.edu ph +61 3 9903 0027;  RSVP.

 

18-22 Aug 2014, Research Week: Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University

Research Week is a series of seminars and workshops aimed primarily at Early Career Researchers and Higher Degree by Research students in the Faculty. The target audience is indicated against each event below. Please register where appropriate as spaces for all events are limited. See the Faculty web page or below for the complete list of activities.

2014 AMREP Early Career Researcher Conference

Calling all students, research assistants and an early career researchers based at CCS, SPHPM, Burnet, BakerIDI and elsewhere at AMREP. You are invited to register and present your research findings at the 2014 AMREP ECR CONFERENCE! RSVP or see details below. 

CCS HIV public lecture very successful

Prof Jenny Hoy giving the lecture

The 2014 CCS public lecture by Professor Jenny Hoy was held on Thursday 10 July.  Around 140 people braved the cold and wet weather to hear Professor Jenny Hoy give a superb talk about her journey through the era of HIV/AIDS. Jenny's presentation provided an excellent overview of the history of the disease, the changing nature of problems for patients as well as future directions in research and treatment. Read more below about this slide and for updates about publication of the photo gallery and video upload.
See Photo Gallery. Video link will be posted once available.

2014 Australian Transplant Games comes to Melbourne

Photo source:
australiantransplantgames.com

The 2014 Australian Transplant Games are set to be held in Melbourne over eight days in September. With more than 21 competitive sports and 10 special events, the 2014 games will be Australia's largest single event promoting tissue donation.

August 31 - De Castella Run for Mental Health 2014

MAPrc now has a generous donor who will match every dollar raised up to $30,000.  You could help them with the De Castella Run for Mental Health 2014 (Sunday 31 August), in the following ways:

1. Register as a runner
2. Fundraise by creating a fundraising account
3. Sponsor a runner
4. Donate to MAPrc

This year funds raised will go towards establishing a new PhD scholarship at the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc). The selected recipient will join the team of clinicians, researchers and post graduate students to help mend minds by conducting a series of high quality clinical research projects under the direct supervision of MAPrc Director, Professor Jayashri Kulkarni

Participants sought: Anxiety in perimenopausal women - what factors increase it?

Women have double the risk of developing mood disturbances compared to men and perimenopause is the time of greatest vulnerability of developing mood disturbances such as anxiety. The aim of this study is to investigate factors that increase the risk of anxiety during perimenopause. If you are interested in taking part in this study for either the mood disturbance or control group, please contact Cindy Zahrany: cgzah1@student.monash.edu or Emmy Gavrilidis: 9076 6913 or emmy.gavrilidis@monash.edu