Photo of the week: D.S. Rosengarten Surgical Research Prize

This year's winner of the annual D.S. Rosengarten Surgical Research Prize, Dr Geraldine Ooi.

Dr Ooi presented on: Lipidomic analysis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in morbid obesity: Pathologic alterations in liver lipid profile and parallel serum changes with progressive disease. Dr Ooi is undertaking research for her PhD supervised by Professor Wendy Brown, Head of Department of Surgery.

See more about the event: www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/surgery-alfred/prizes/rosengarten and Photo gallery

What will be on at CCS in 2018

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

This will be the last eNews for 2017, with holiday dates being 21 December 2017 - 26 January 2018 inclusive.

First eNews for 2018 will be published on 2 February 2018.

Information regarding all 2018 seminar series will be available once dates are confirmed (usually in February).

Wishing you all a safe holiday season.

Recent CCS Publications: 9-15 December 2017

Professor Andrew Spencer is a
co-author on a paper that looks at the
potential role of liquid biopsies in
multiple myeloma.

Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for complete publications list. Linked headings for each section are to the departments' home pages.

Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD)

Diabetes

Gatronenterology

MAPrc

Medicine

Melbourne Sexual Health Clinic (MSHC)

Neuroscience

Surgery

A/Prof Melinda Coughlan wins Diabetes Australia grant

Associate Professor Melinda Coughlan (left) receiving the DARP
award from Chris Jose, President of Diabetes Australia - Victoria
Photo: Jorge de Araujo artificialstudios.com.au

Congratulations to Associate Professor Melinda Coughlan on the Diabetes Australia Research Program (DARP) grant!

A/Prof Coughlan has received a grant for $53,000 from DARP to pursue research investigating a blockade of a major driver of inflammation, which contributes to the development of kidney disease, potentially leading to kidney failure.

Top education award received by Alfred Health trainee

Dr Kathryn Connelly has been
awarded the Bryan Hudson medal

We are delighted to report that Dr Kathryn Connelly, one of Alfred Health’s Basic Physician Trainees, has been awarded the prestigious Bryan Hudson Medal for the best overall performance throughout Australasia in the 2017 RACP combined Written and Clinical Examinations (Adult Medicine).  The Alfred Basic Physician training program also achieved the highest average mark in Australasia for the written examination in 2017.  This training program is co-ordinated by A/Profs Laila Rotstein and Anne Powell who also co-ordinate the medical school program for Central Clinical School.

Welcome to Sabina Davey, CCS reception!

Welcome to Sabina Davey, long time reception staffer for the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and now working for Central Clinical School. Sabina is based as she has been at reception on Level 6, Alfred Centre, and works Monday to Thursday. In addition to reception, Sabina will be able to assist staff with room bookings, courier deliveries, etc.

Welcome Sabina!

Thank you to our blood donors!



Your blood donation has been a gift without
which our research at ACBD could not progress.
Image: www.123rf.com

To our valued blood donors,

Time flies when you’re having fun!  As 2017 rushes toward its end, we wanted to take some time out to thank you, our invaluable blood donors, for your ongoing support of our important research into blood-based diseases. We had some serious research highlights into managing blood clotting, see below.

Video of the week: T Clark Gamblin "The forgotten male cancers"

The Department of Surgery hosted a public lecture last month (Thursday 2 November 2017), given by Professor T. Clark Gamblin, Chief of Surgical Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. The informative lecture looked at the progression and treatment of “The forgotten male cancers”.

Professor Gamblin, an internationally renowned surgeon specialising in cancers of the liver and pancreas, is a Fulbright Scholar who is visiting Australia on the Fulbright Specialist Program.

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fQeneqngGM&t=3s
Photo gallery: https://photos.app.goo.gl/344h2WcSywOEL0eA2
Event: www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/headlines/events-calendar/2017-surgery-public-lecture

What's on at CCS 11-15 Dec 2017

Alice Ying is presenting
on Tues 12 Dec

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

Note, most local seminar series and grand rounds are winding down for the year, with University closedown dates being 21 December 2017 - 1 January 2018 inclusive.

What's on at CCS 11-15 Dec 2017

Mon	11/12/2017	►	13:30	Advanced Literature Searching
Tue	12/12/2017	►	11:00	PhD Mid-Candidature Milestone: Ya-Lan Ying (Alice)
		►	14:00	MRO Presentation on NHMRC Restructure
Wed	13/12/2017	►	11:30	Immunology Seminar
		►	16:45	AMREP students free yoga
Thur	14/12/2017	►	11:30	Cutting Edge Journal Club: Kirsty Wilson
		►	12:30	ACBD special seminar: A/Prof Barry Paw
		►	16:00	CCS Xmas Party - College Lawn

Recent CCS Publications: 1-8 December 2017

Dr Geraldine Ooi is co-author on a
paper on calibrating risk factors
 for  NAFLD in the obese. Geraldine
also won the 2017 D.S. Rosengarten
Surgical Research Prize - see more

Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for complete publications list. Linked headings for each section are to the departments' home pages.

• Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine (AIRMed)
• Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD) 
• Centre for Obesity Research and Education
• Gastroenterology
• Immunology
• Infectious Diseases
• Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc)
• Medicine
• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC)
• National Trauma Research Institute
• Neuroscience
• Surgery 

AMREP EMCR news now out, Issue 26, Dec 2017

The EMCR Committee is pleased to launch the 26th Edition of the AMREP EMCR newsletter.

Have a safe and lovely Christmas and New Year break. News link

Kind regards,

EMCRTimes Editor,
Eric Chow

AMREP Early-Mid Career Researcher Committee
Email: ecr.amrep@monash.edu
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmrepEcrsWeb: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/ecr

Intranet: https://sites.google.com/a/monash.edu/ccsintranet/ecr
Seminar calendar: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/headlines/events-calendar.html

  

Monash researcher leads drive to better manage global research ‘deluge’

A/Prof Julian Elliott speaking at the Commonwealth
Health Minister's award function in June 2017

by Anne Crawford

For some 30 years, international literature about medical and scientific research topics worldwide has been critically reviewed, summarised and distilled for all to use in what are called ‘systematic reviews’. But with an exponential growth in research, about 7% of these reviews are out-of-date on the day they’re published as the field has moved on, while 25% are out-of-date within two years.

Head of Clinical Research in the Department of Infectious Diseases, Associate Professor Julian Elliott, is behind a push for a better model to make sense of this “data deluge”. He and his team are trialing what he has termed ‘living systematic reviews’ (LSR), enlisting methods including online platforms, artificial intelligence and ‘citizen science’ to improve efficiency in the production of the reviews.

Congratulations to CCS 2017 NHMRC grant recipients!

Congratulations to all of our National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) project grant recipients in Central Clinical School (CCS)! In addition to the CCS based recipients listed below, we would also like to congratulate Dr Nadine Andrew who is in the process of transferring her grants to CCS from the School of Clinical Sciences. Nadine is based at Peninsula Health with Velandai Srikanth’s group. We also farewell Professor Magdalena Plebanski, who is taking on a senior role at RMIT of Enabling Capability Platform Director, Health and Biomedical Sciences.

Prof Paul Myles receives ASA Excellence in Research Award!

Professor Paul Myles, Head of 
Department, Anaesthesia and
Perioperative Medicine

Congratulations to Prof Paul Myles, who has been awarded the 2017 Excellence in Research Award by the American Society of Anesthiologists (ASA)!

The ASA says, "[Paul Myles] has to be considered among the very best physician–researchers our specialty has ever seen", for not only his capacity to build worldwide teams of researchers and create large trial networks involving thousands of patients, but to focus on meaningful patient-centred outcomes. He's interested in people's feedback to improve their experience.

Link: monitor.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx?articleid=2654713&resultClick=3

Congratulations to Geraldine Ooi on D.S.Rosengarten Surgical Research Prize!

Dr Geraldine Ooi with Mrs Candice Rosengarten,
widow of David Rosengarten and donor of the prize

Congratulations to Dr Geraldine Ooi, this year's winner  of the D.S. Rosengarten Surgical Research Prize!

Dr Ooi presented on: Lipidomic analysis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in morbid obesity: Pathologic alterations in liver lipid profile and parallel serum changes with progressive disease.

Dr Ooi is a General Surgical trainee undertaking a PhD in the Central Clinical School's Department of Surgery in Monash University and with the Bariatric Surgical Unit, looking at non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in obesity.  She is supported by an NHMRC scholarship and is supervised by Professor Wendy Brown.

See more about the event: www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/surgery-alfred/prizes/rosengarten and photo gallery

Profs Mark Cooper and Paul Zimmet receive IDF awards

Professor Mark Cooper presented one of the prestigious International Diabetes Federation’s Award lectures in Abu Dhabi on “The science of diabetes complications” which recognised his and his team’s major discoveries in this area. The lecture was titled “Pathogenesis of micro and macrovascular complications: are there common pathways for both?"

Prof Paul Zimmet received a 'Lifetime Achievement Award' (right) for his huge contribution to diabetes research.

See more about the IDF Congress: www.idf.org/our-activities/congress.html

Congratulations to Gavin Horrigan on hitting the targets!

Gavin Horrigan, festooned
with winner's sashes

Gavin Horrigan ("Straight Shooter") enjoyed amazing success at the recent Ararat Clay Target Club Christmas shoot as can be seen from the attached photo. He won three prizes:

• Club Champion (shooter breaking most targets for the year out of the total number thrown) – yellow sash and wooden trophy
• Off The Fence Champion (a competition where people shoot 25m behind the trap house on the back of the layout rather than shooting 15m behind the trap which is the normal mark – this was a shoot off between all of the shooters who had won an Off The Fence event in 2017) – purple sash
• Champion of Champions (a shoot-off between anyone who had been Overall Winner of a competition in 2017) – tartan sash

Gavin Horrigan is Central Clinical School's Manager in addition to being a talented shooter.

Healthy blood donors aged 60+ (miniscule amount - 9 ml) wanted for research study on sepsis

Help paint the picture!
Healthy blood donors wanted
to give 9 ml blood

Call out for healthy blood donors to provide a small amount of blood (9ml) as part of the project: A pilot study towards the development of point-of-care testing to diagnose sepsis. The project investigates established and novel biomarkers involved with sepsis.

One of the aims of our project is to measure the levels of sepsis biomarkers in healthy donors in order to have a baseline of comparison to Sepsis-positive patients. Since most of the Sepsis patients, who are currently being recruited in the Alfred Intensive Care Unit, are between 60-70 years of age, we are interested in healthy volunteers in the same age group for an 'apples for apples' comparison.

Photo of the week: 2017 Graduate Research Symposium

Central Clinical School's 10th annual Graduate Research Symposium was held on Friday 17 November 2017. With the aim of improving the visibility of students and their research projects, PhD students throughout the AMREP precinct (Baker & Burnet Institutes and CCS) had the opportunity to explain their research to peers and colleagues.

This year's winners were:

L-R: Ms Erica Kim (First Place Poster Presentation), Mr Matthew Snelson (Second Place Poster Presentation), Ms Ashlee Conway (First Place Oral Presentation), Ms Maria Selvadurai (Second Place Oral presentation), Ms Minhee Halemba (Third Place Poster Presentation) and Mr Paul Gill (Third Place Oral Presentation).

See More:

• 2017 Graduate Research Symposium photo gallery
• https://www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/education/current-students/hdr-symposium
• See detail of all presenters in the symposium booklet.

What's on at CCS 4-9 Dec 2017

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

Note, most local seminar series and grand rounds are winding down for the year, with University closedown dates being 21 December 2017 - 1 January 2018 inclusive.

What's on at CCS 4-9 Dec 2017

Tue 5/12/2017 ► 12:00    Dr Rebecca Smith, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Recent CCS publications: 25 Nov-1 Dec 2017

A/Prof Melinda Coughlan is
co-author on a paper showing
that pregnant mouse mothers'
diets influence their offspring's
proneness to Type 1 diabetes

Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for complete publications list. Linked headings for each section are to the departments' home pages.

• Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD)
• Centre for Obesity Research Education (CORE)
• Diabetes
• Immunology and Pathology
• Infectious Diseases
• Neuroscience
• MAPrc
• Medicine

Never a better time for immunology, says Department head

Professor David Tarlinton describes the Immunology department's
research. Video 2:07 min

by Anne Crawford

Professor David Tarlinton, one of Australia's foremost B-cell immunologists, reflects on his time in the field, his role heading Monash University’s Department of Immunology and Pathology, and tells of his own laboratory’s work. He points to two exciting new laboratories that will soon join the Department’s existing groups. 

What's in a name? Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder and its links with other disorders.

Professor Jayashri Kulkarni
Director of Monash Alfred
Psychiatry research centre

“People are not as scared of something when they begin to understand it.”

by Matt Jane

A team of Monash University researchers and clinicians are at the forefront of taking important steps to understanding and treating a frequently misdiagnosed mental illness.

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is thought to severely affect 6% of the population and a further 20% of people sitting on the trauma spectrum who do not present to hospital. Due to the lack of understanding of the disorder, many individuals are often misdiagnosed and therefore do not receive adequate treatment. Unfortunately, like so many other mental illnesses, BDP can be an extremely stigmatizing diagnosis. The name ‘Border Personality Disorder’ often carries negative connotations and can cause harm to those who suffer from it.

Study uncovers protein link in red blood cell development

Dr Fiona Brown is Research Fellow
in A/Prof Andrew Wei's lab

by Anne Crawford

Researchers at the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD) have furthered their work into Dynamin 2 (DNM2) in a paper providing the first evidence that the gene plays a role in developing red blood cells. The finding paves the way for further research investigating links to anaemia.

Congratulations to Dean Talia and Man Kit Lee on their PhD completions!

Congratulations to our PhD graduates, Mr Dean Talia & Mr Man Kit Lee! We wish you well in your postdoc scientific careers.

Dean Talia

Man Kit Lee

Dean's thesis is titled, "Immunomodulatory intervention: IL-17A and regulatory T cells in a model of retinopathy of prematurity", and he was supervised by Prof Fabienne Mackay & Prof Jennifer Wilkinson-Berka, previously in the Department of Immunology and Pathology (Alfred).

Man Kit Lee's thesis is titled, "Lipid Metabolism in Different Monocyte and Macrophage Subsets in Cardiovascular Disease", and he was supervised by Mr Andrew Murphy, Prof Jaye Chin-Dusting of the Baker Institute.

CCS has had 26 PhD completions throughout 2017.

Support breast cancer research: 3 Dec fundraising run - donate or participate

Dr Shiva Akbarzadeh from the Department of Surgery is running with a group of women friends in a 5K circuit, next Sunday, 3 December 2017, in memory of Maryam Mirzakhani, the Iranian born Professor at Stanford University who lost her battle with metastatic breast cancer earlier this year.  She has been the only woman to date who has received a Fields Medal (equivalent of Nobel Prize in Mathematics).

Please support breast cancer research. Here is the link to our fund raising page.  No donation is too little! carmanswfr2017.everydayhero.com/au/run-for-a-beautiful-mind

Video of the week: Gala Poster Presentation for Immunology students

The Department of Immunology and Pathology inaugural Gala Poster Presentation function was a great success, with 30 different group of students participating. The event was coordinated by Professor Robyn Slattery in conjunction with Associate Professor Colin Jevons, Acting Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching, Monash Business School, as the aim of the event was to feature the science and encourage the students to communicate effectively. See more:

• Video: https://youtu.be/IEl3teHQLFE
• www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/immunology

What's on at CCS 27 Nov - 1 Dec 2017



Erica Kim is presenting this
week. She won the CCS post-
graduate symposium poster
presentation

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 27 Nov - 1 Dec 2017

Tue	28/11/2017	►	12:00	PhD pre-submission milestone: Erica Kim
Wed	29/11/2017	►	10:30	Burnet Institute: Microbiome in Sexual, Maternal and Child Health Symposium

No Immunology seminars 29 & 30 Nov because of ASI meetings. They resume the following week, Weds 6 Dec with Lynette Beattie.

Recent CCS publications: 18-24 November 2017

L-R: Profs Mark Cooper and Merlin Thomas are co-authors on
a paper on AAA, ACE2 and resveratrol - find out more
 

Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for complete publications list. Linked headings for each section are to the departments' home pages.

• Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD)
• Diabetes
• Gastroenterology
• Immunology and Pathology
• Infectious Diseases
• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC)
• Neuroscience

Scientists find key to miscarriages in blood clotting disorder

Prof Harshal Nandurkar and Dr Anushka
Samudra are respectively last and first authors
on the paper on APS and miscarriage

by Anne Crawford

Monash University researchers have potentially shed light on why women with the rare autoimmune disorder Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) are prone to successive pregnancy losses.

APS causes abnormal blood clots in the arteries or veins along with the risks that go with clotting, including stroke and Deep Vein Thrombosis. For pregnant women the effects of the disorder can be devastating, causing about half of them to be at risk of sequential miscarriages, spontaneous abortions or premature births.

Congratulations to Prof Kit Fairley on ASHA award!

Professor Christopher Fairley (right) receiving
his ASHA award for distinguished services

Congratulations to Professor Christopher (Kit) Fairley, Director of the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC), who has won the Australasian Sexual Health Alliance (ASHA) Distinguished Services to Sexual Health Award.

The ASHA Distinguished Services to Sexual Health Award recognises a distinguished visionary leader who has made outstanding contribution to the field of sexual health both nationally and internationally.

Congratutions to Dr Eric Chow on his many recent awards!!

Dr Eric Chow with his VC award
for ECR research excellence

Only three years post-PhD, Dr Eric Chow has launched an exceptional upward career trajectory in epidemiology and the control of sexually transmitted diseases. He has received a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Research Fellowship and two recent project grants (one from the NHMRC and the other from industry).

Most recently, Eric was awarded:

• 2017 Vice-Chancellor's award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher
• 2017 Australasian Sexual Health Alliance (ASHA) award*
• 2017 AMREP EMCR Public Health Early Career Research Best Paper award**
• 2017 Victorian Young Tall Poppy Scientist of the year award
• 2017 Early Career Researcher Fellows Publication Prize
• 2017 Dean's award for Excellence in Research (Early Career)

Congratulations to our recent PhD graduates!

Top (L-R): Ms Eleanor Jones, Mr Man Kit Lee, Mr Charles Milne
Bottom (L-R): Ms Nicola Sandler, Miss Yaping Chen, Mr Craig McKenzie

Congratulations to our recent PhD graduates and good luck in your future endeavours!

Congratulations to CCS's 10th annual graduate research symposium winners!

L-R: Erica Kim, Matthew Snelson, Ashlee Conway, Maria Selvadurai, Minhee Halemba, Paul Gill

The Central Clinical School's (CCS) 10th annual Graduate Research Symposium ran last Friday 17 November. Graduate research students from across CCS presented their research in the biggest student-run event of the year. We also had fun sessions where supervisors got to showcase their communication skills in the popular "Explain My Graph" and "No-Bell" competitions.

Photo of the Week: 2017 AMREP EMCR retreat

The biennial Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct (AMREP) Early & Mid Career Researchers' (EMCR) retreat was held on 26-27 October 2017. See more about the AMREP EMCR programs, membership, seed grants at:

• www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/research/ecr
• See photo gallery for the retreat.

What's on at CCS 20-24 Nov 2017

Prof Steve Jane will give an update
& forecast for CCS on Tues 21 Nov.

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 20-24 Nov 2017

Tue	21/11/2017	►	14:00	CCS Head of School Address
Wed	22/11/2017	►	11:30	Immunology Seminar: Greg Ebert
Thur	23/11/2017	►	11:30	Cutting Edge Journal Club: Isaak Quast
		►	12:00	The Alfred Grand Round: End of Year Quiz

Recent CCS publications: 4-17 Nov 2017

Prof Jenny Hoy with Dr Janine Trevillyan
(seated). They are co-authors on a recent
paper in Lancet HIV on simplification of
combination antiretroviral therapy (ART)

Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for complete publications list. Linked headings for each section are to the departments' home pages.

• Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine (AIRMed)
• Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
• Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD)
• Centre for Obesity Research and Education (CORE)
• Diabetes
• Gastroenterology
• Immunology and Pathology
• Infectious Diseases
• Medicine
• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC)
• Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc) 
• National Trauma Research Institute (NTRI)
• Neuroscience
• Surgery

Lap Band study shows positive outcomes for diabetes patients

Prof Wendy Brown and her team perform
a gastric banding procedure

by Anne Crawford

A Monash University study on the effect of bariatric surgery on obese people with type 2 diabetes has showed that most patients experienced sustained weight loss with nearly a fifth in remission from the disease. Moreover, many patients reported improved quality of life. Obesity is a key risk factor for diabetes.

"Right word. Right Time." New campaign for preventive health conversations

Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah is an advocate
for proactive conversations with patients

Alfred Health will put health professionals at the forefront of a new campaign to combat the single biggest killer of Australians each year.

Chronic disease is responsible for 90 per cent of deaths in Australia annually – but many of those diseases are largely preventable with lifestyle change.

Alfred Health’s new campaign, Right Word. Right Time. (RWRT), challenges health professionals to talk with their patients about preventing chronic disease and making positive changes towards a healthier lifestyle.

Congratulations to Eric Chow, 2017 Victorian Young Tall Poppy Scientist of the Year!

Dr Eric Chow, 2017 Victorian Young
Tall Poppy Scientist of the Year

Congratulations to Dr Eric Chow, who has been awarded the "2017 Victorian Young Tall Poppy Scientist of the Year". He says in his tweet, "I'm honoured & surprised I'm the @TallpoppiesAIPS of the Year! Thanks Prof @kitfairley for his nomination & my team @MSHCResearch @CCSMonash"

See more about the Tall Poppy scheme at www.aips.net.au/tall-poppies/tall-poppy-campaign/

Short course: Pain symposium Sat 2 Dec 2017

Read More                

The Alfred Pain Symposium

Video of the Week: Diabetes and its complications - 2017 CCS Public Lecture by Professor Mark Cooper

2017 Central Clinical School public lecture by Professor Mark Cooper AO, on "Changing the way we treat diabetes and its complications". See more:

• Video: https://youtu.be/GpHEQgyDKs8 (53:15 mins)
• Lecture description: https://www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/headlines/events-calendar/2017-public-lecture-cooper
• Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/ccsmonash/changing-the-way-we-treat-diabetes-and-its-complications-public-lecture
• Department of Diabetes: https://www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/diabetes/about-us
• Photo gallery: https://photos.app.goo.gl/VMvzSDrnw9U8bkdv1

What's on at CCS

Paul Gill is presenting on
Thursday 9 Nov

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 6-10 Nov 2017

Mon	06/11/2017	►	cob	Monash Micro Imaging photo competition close
Tue	07/11/2017	►	14:30	Melbourne Cup afternoon teas - various
Wed	08/11/2017	►	11:30	Immunology Seminar- Erica Brodie
Thur	09/11/2017	►	11:30	Cutting Edge Journal Club: Paul Gill
		►	12:00	The Alfred Grand Round: Dr Evan Symons
Fri	10/11/2017	►	all day	ACBD Symposium

Recent CCS publications: 28 Oct-3 Nov 2017

Prof Wendy Brown in theatre.
Wendy has two publications
this week on bariatric surgery

Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for complete publications list. Linked headings for each section are to the departments' home pages.

• Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine (AIRMed)
• Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD) 
• Centre for Obesity Research and Education
• Diabetes
• Gastroenterology
• Infectious Diseases
• Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc)
• Medicine
• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC)
• Neuroscience
• Surgery 

Cancer drug may aid diabetic complications

Dr Haloom Rafehi

by Anne Crawford

Developing new drugs is an expensive, time-consuming and labour-intensive process.

As costs skyrocket, drug repurposing or repositioning – a process by which existing, clinically approved drugs are repurposed for different conditions – is attracting increasing interest.

A new study by Monash University scientists from the Department of Diabetes investigated the approach and found a group of such drugs that could potentially be used to help counter diabetic complications.

Teaching an old molecule new tricks; study a potential game-changer for MS research

Drs Jae Young Lee and Steven Petratos, first and last authors
respectively on the paper

by Anne Crawford

Monash University researchers have developed – and patented – a small molecule that holds promise as a drug to help treat diseases affecting motor control, including Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Led by Dr Steven Petratos, the researchers investigated the molecule, called DITPA, in a rare disorder called Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome (AHDS). The condition, which starts developing before birth, causes psychomotor retardation, whereby the person cannot control movement in their body and can have severe intellectual disability. It is inherited via a genetic mutation and only affects males.