Central Clinical School laboratory placements for medical students

Central Clinical School offers laboratory placements for undergraduate medical (MBBS) students. The placement activities are designed to give students experience with routine standard operational procedures in a laboratory. This is a great way to explore and gain an insight into current medical research. See laboratory details below, or at: www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/education/translational/lab-placements.html.

Those who are interested please register your interest here (Registration form). For any queries, please contact Ms Sharmila Ramesh (ph 990 30368, email sharmila.ramesh@monash.edu).

Department/Institute	Laboratory	Lab Head
Immunology	Immune Memory	Prof David Tarlinton
	Retinopathy and Diabetes	Prof Jennifer Wilkinson-Berka
	Leukocyte Signaling	A/Prof Margaret Hibbs
Australian Centre for Blood Diseases	Red Cells	Prof Stephen Jane
	Vascular Biology	Prof Harshal Nandurkar
	Molecular Neurotrauma and Haemostasis	Prof Robert Medcalf
	Myeloma	Prof Andrew Spencer
	Leukaemia	Dr Mark Guthridge
	Acute Leukaemia	Dr Ross Dickins
	Leukaemia Translational Research Group	A/Prof Andrew Wei
	Nanobiotechnology	Dr Christoph Hagemeyer
	Mammalian Functional Genetics	A/Prof Jody Haigh
	Stem Cell Biology	Dr Cedric Tremblay
	Platelets & Thrombosis	Dr Justin Hamilton
Medicine	Stem cell therapies for brain disorders	Dr Steven Petratos
Infectious Diseases	Hospital Epidemiology: Hospital Accquired Bacterial Pathogens	Prof Anton Peleg
	Fungal diagnostics,  evaluation of immune function post bone marrow transplantation, determination of immune response to fungus in the airways of lung transplant recipients and virulence of Aspergillus	Dr Orla Morrissey
	Viral Hepatitis Group	Prof Margaret Hellard
MAPRc	Mental health research	Dr Caroline Gurvich
	Biological aspects of psychiatry	Prof Paul Fitzgerald
Burnet	Clinical/epi translational research (Centre for Population Health)	Prof Margaret Hellard
	HIV Neuropathogenesis	A/Prof Melissa Churchill
	HIV Immunometabolism and Inflammatory Disease Laboratory	Dr Clovis Palmer
Surgery	Trauma Services	Prof Mark Fitzgerald
Gasteroenterology	Nutrition	Dr Jane Muir