11 Aug 2017
What's on at CCS 14-18 August 2017
Sung Wook Chung is presenting Thu 17 Aug |
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 14-18 August 2017
Mon | 14/08/2017 | ► | 12:30 | Alfred Psychiatry Grand Round Presentation |
Tue | 15/08/2017 | ► | 10:00 | Department of Diabetes Student Journal Club |
► | 10:00 | Shut up and Write for HDR students and EMCRs from the AMREP precinct | ||
► | 11:00 | PhD Mid-candidature review seminar: Mr Shaun Fleming | ||
► | 11:30 | PhD Mid-candidature review seminar: Mr Mina Takawy | ||
Wed | 16/08/2017 | ► | 11:30 | PhD Pre-submission seminar: Ms Jessica Anania |
Thur | 17/08/2017 | ► | 10:30 | PhD Pre-submission Seminar: Mr Sung Wook Chung |
► | 11:30 | Cutting Edge Journal Club: Nik Kocovski | ||
► | 12:00 | The Alfred Grand Round: The incidental adrenal mass | ||
► | 14:00 | Shut up and Write for HDR students and EMCRs from the AMREP precinct |
CCS publications update: 5 -11 August 2017
L-R: Dr Jasmin Grigg and Dr Rosie Worsley, two of the authors on a paper on raloxifene for schizophrenia |
- 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
Stem cell therapy for chronic asthma
Lead researchers Dr Simon Royce and Associate Professor Chrishan Samuel. |
A Monash University study co-led by the Central Clinical School’s Dr Simon Royce, which demonstrates that a new therapy developed through stem cell technology holds promise as a treatment for chronic asthma, has garnered considerable attention.
Monash scientists provided the experimental expertise to test Cynata Therapeutics' induced pluripotent stem cell-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in a model of experimental asthma.
10 Aug 2017
Closing in on an optimal molecule for kidney injury
A designer molecule goes exactly where it is needed for protection against kidney injury during transplantation. |
Kidney ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is common during transplantation, leading to compromised function in the kidney and increasing the chance of rejection of the new organ.
Now scientists in the Vascular Biology Group, Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, have refined a designer molecule that offers protection against IRI in research that may have translational significance to transplantation.
Why researching antioxidants matters
A/Prof Judy de Haan has won a five-year Baker Institute fellowship |
by Anne Crawford
Dietary antioxidants have captured the popular imagination as being necessary for good health but their benefit in fighting disease is still uncertain. Associate Professor Judy de Haan has devoted her career to studying the oxidative stress that antioxidants counter and says the answers are more complex than vitamins.
Associate Professor de Haan, who heads the Oxidative Stress Laboratory at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute and holds an Honorary position at CCS, was recently awarded a five-year Baker Fellowship. She brings us up-to-date with the lab’s investigations and future research directions the Fellowship will support.
2017 Dean's Awards for Excellence: Congratulations to Dr Eric Chow!
Dr Eric Chow receiving the 2017 Dean's Award for Research Excellence (Early Career) from Professor Christina Mitchell |
Dr Chow completed his PhD at UNSW in 2014 and joined the Central Clinical School and Melbourne Sexual Health Centre as a postdoctoral research fellow.
His research mainly focuses on gonorrhoea and human papillomavirus with a wide range of aspects including clinical practice management, sexual health programs evaluation, and understanding the epidemic and related risk behaviours among high-risk populations. These research topics are of high public health relevance and important for policy decision and clinical management. Dr Chow has more than 80 publications since he joined CCS/MSHC.
CCS PhD student profile: Amy Wilson
Amy Wilson at the 2017 CCS 3MT heat. She was runner up. |
Amy Wilson is a PhD student in the Department of Immunology and Pathology supervised by Professor Magdalena Plebanski. Amy completed a Bachelor of Science (Medical Bioscience) at Monash University. Amy has also completed an Honours degree looking at ovarian cancer biomarkers at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research.
9 Aug 2017
2017 AMREP EMCR Best Paper Awards: applications closing soon!
There is only one month to go until applications close for the 2017 Awards! AMREP EMCRs are encouraged to apply soon to avoid disappointments.
Details
- Closing date: 5 pm Friday 1 September 2017 (late and/or incomplete application forms will not be considered)
- Enquiries: ecr.amrep@monash.edu
- Guidelines and eligibility
- Application form
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