School of Translational Medicine News Blog: 2019

17 Dec 2019

2019 CCS teaching award for Dr Jane Varney

Dr Jane Varney

Congratulations to Dr Jane Varney for winning Central Clinical School's teacher innovation and impact award this year! Jane was the lead for innovative development of the Monash FODMAP online course for dietitians. It has already had 1200 enrolments from 66 countries and 300 graduations. The course has:

High student satisfaction
Strong enrolments driven by good reputation
Reaching dietitians world-wide
Connecting IBS patients with Monash FODMAP trained dietitians

See Jane's video describing how the course works.

The award is open to all CCS staff working to innovate in learning and teaching, whether academic or professional, individuals or teams. Enquiries to Professor Robyn Slattery, Robyn.Slattery@monash.edu.

Contribution recognised to international leadership in haemophilia and thrombosis

Adjunct Professor (Practice) Huyen Tran

Congratulations to Associate Professor Huyen Tran, to Adjunct Professor (Practice) by Monash University! This is a well-deserved recognition for his contribution to international leadership in haemophilia and thrombosis, advancing clinical care and research in these areas, empowering developing countries in the provision of specialist services and higher degree supervision of clinician-scientists at Monash University.

Prof Tran is based at the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases. His efforts have placed Monash University and Alfred Health at the apex of this sub-speciality within Australia and enabled the establishment of collaborations with other centres in the European Union, the USA, and South East Asia.

CCS BMedSc Honours student highest achiever in 2019!

Ms Gillian Lim is dux of the 2019 cohort

of Bachelor of Medical Science (Hons).

Congratulations to Gillian Lim on being dux of the year! Gillian is the highest achieving Bachelor of Medical Science (Honours) student in 2019 across all three cohorts of students that have completed the BMedSc(Hons) degree in 2019. These include the full-year cohort that Gillian was part of (2019FY), the mid-year Clayton 2018-2019 cohort and the Malaysia Nov 2018-June 2019 cohort.

Gillian's thesis was "The physiology of reflux following sleeve gastrectomy". She was supervised by Professor Wendy Brown, Dr Paul Burton (both in the Central Clinical School's Department of Surgery) & Professor Geoff Hebbard (RMH).

Matthew Drill

Elan L'Estrange-Stranieri

The Robyn O'Hehir medal is awarded for the top-ranked Honours student in CCS. The medal is named for Professor Robyn O'Hehir AO, Professor-Director of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine in Central Clinical School and the Alfred Hospital. It was instituted in 2019 by our outgoing Head of School, Professor Stephen Jane.

Congratulations to our 2019 inaugural awardees!

Matthew Drill (Department of Neuroscience)
Honours thesis: The link between Purinergic P2X receptor 7 (P2X7R) and Granulocytic-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor (GM-CSF) in Glioblastoma.
Matthew was supervised by Dr Mastura Monif.
Elan L'Estrange-Stranieri (Department of Immunology and Pathology)
Honours thesis: Assessing the kinase independent role of Lyn in preventing lupus.
Elan was supervised by Associate Professor Margaret Hibbs.

Recent publications from Central Clinical School: 2-16 Dec 2019

Dr Marina Carpinelli is 2nd author
on a paper investigating the genetic
background of palatal clefting

Recent publications from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments. This is not a comprehensive list:

ACBD
Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Immunology and Pathology
Infectious Diseases
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
Neuroscience
Peninsula Clinical School
Psychiatry: Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre

Study reveals need to strengthen sexual health services for PrEP users

Dr Jason Ong, lead author
on the JAMA paper

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) – taking antiretroviral drugs to protect people from acquiring HIV infection – is revolutionising the prevention of HIV around the world. However, a global study led by Monash University in Australia and supported by the World Health Organisation has shown that people who are seeking PrEP to prevent HIV are also at high risk of other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

The authors of the paper argue that PrEP services could be an ideal place to test for, prevent and treat both HIV and other STIs.

Congratulations to Dr Jess Borger on inaugural Women in Immunology award!

Dr Jessica Borger at the ASI award with

Harriet Pope, Margaret Baird's daughter

Congratulations to Dr Jessica Borger, who has been awarded a Margaret Baird Women in Immunology Lectureship Award at the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology (ASI) conference in Adelaide.

The award was established only this year in memory of Professor Margaret Baird who died in 2016.

Dr Borger said she was honoured by the award and looked forward to furthering Margaret's legacy of supporting women and students in immunological research.

Allergy research to fathom causes of enigmatic diseases

Dr Marcus Robinson

by Anne Crawford

Australia has among the highest allergy rates in the world – and it’s rising. According to the National Allergy Strategy, life-threatening food allergy rates have doubled in ten years and allergy deaths have increased by 42% over six years.

Immunoglobulin E (IgE), antibody produced by the immune system, is a key driver of allergic responses.

Research by Monash Research Fellow Dr Marcus Robinson, funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), will drill deep to identify the sources of IgE in chronic allergic diseases. “We will combine disease-relevant allergy models and new reporter mice to work out when IgE-producing cells develop, how they develop, and how their lifespan affects the persistence of allergic responses,” Dr Robinson said.

Associate Professor Ross Dickins

by Anne Crawford

In patients with the blood cancer, acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), immature white blood cells in the bone marrow and blood become locked into a state of perpetual proliferation.

Most AML patients are treated with chemotherapy, which induces leukaemia cell death. However, some patients can also be treated with differentiation therapy, which instead triggers the maturation of leukaemia cells and stops their proliferation. Several new differentiation therapies have been clinically approved for AML patients, but their mechanisms of action are poorly understood.

Associate Professor Ross Dickins’ laboratory has been focussing on understanding the behaviour of AML cells exposed to differentiation therapy.

Dr Catherine Carmichael

by Anne Crawford

Acute Erythroleukaemia (AEL) is an aggressive subtype of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) with extremely poor outcomes; patients have a less than 20% chance of surviving past five years. AEL is largely resistant to standard treatments and new therapies are desperately needed.

Currently, there is a very limited understanding of the mechanisms that underpin AEL development, and subsequently, scientists and clinicians have made very few inroads into understanding how to best treat this malignancy.

Dr Catherine Carmichael, a group leader at the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD), has been awarded $1.38 million by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) towards a five-year project investigating novel therapeutic strategies for AEL.

Dr Joseph Doyle

by Anne Crawford

130,000 people live with untreated hepatitis C (HCV) in Australia. Direct-acting antiviral treatment marked a new era in HCV treatment and has the potential to eliminate the disease as a public health threat. But although curative treatment, which targets specific steps within the hepatitis life-cycle, has been available as a PBS-funded therapy in Australia for nearly three years, the number of people commencing it is falling.

In particular, people who inject drugs (PWID), who have the highest burden of hepatitis, can be difficult to engage in traditional models of care. It currently takes several visits to doctors to test, confirm, and start people on curative HCV treatment.

Dr Joseph Doyle from the Department of Infectious Diseases has received a $1.459 million Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council to conduct a paradigm-changing trial assessing the clinical and cost-effectiveness of a same-visit HCV testing and treatment model of care for PWID.

Prof Jo Fielding is last author on

a paper describing her group's

research on accurate measurement

of cognitive deficits in MS patients

Recent publications from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments. This is not a comprehensive list:

ACBD
Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Diabetes
Infectious Diseases
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
Neuroscience
Psychiatry: Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre
Medical Education

Monash Staff Equity and Diversity Survey

Monash University is undertaking a staff equity and diversity survey, closing 20 December. Please have your say! See more about the survey at www.monash.edu/gender-equity/staff-equity-and-diversity-survey

Take the survey

If you have any questions about the survey, please email staff-equity@monash.edu or call Dr Lucie Joschko, Manager Staff Equity and Diversity, on 03 9902 0246.

7 Dec 2019

Congratulations to our 2019 NHMRC Ideas and CTCS grant winners!

2019 CCS Ideas and Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies grant recipients.
L-R, upper row: Catherine Carmichael, Ross Dickins, Justin Hamilton,
Christoph Hagemeyer. L-R lower row: Phil Kantharidis,
Marcus Robinson, Joseph Doyle, Paul Myles

Congratulations to our National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas/Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies (CTCS) grant recipients in Central Clinical School (CCS)!

CCS researchers have been awarded a total of $12.7 million across 8 grants (6 Ideas, 2 CTCS). CCS areas of expertise which have been funded this round range across the discipline areas of blood diseases, diabetes, infectious diseases, immunology and surgery. Funding for these grants will begin in 2020.

Monash University has been awarded more than $76 million in this round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding. Link

Associate Professor Christoph Hagemeyer

by Anne Crawford

Type 1 diabetes (T1D), a disease with no cure, currently affects more than 120,000 Australians.

People with T1D are dependent on insulin, a hormone, to help keep their blood-sugar levels from skyrocketing which can lead to long-term complications such as kidney and heart diseases responsible for significant morbidity and mortality.

However, if too much insulin is injected, sugar levels become dangerously low, called hypoglycaemia, resulting in coma or death.

Associate Professor Christoph Hagemeyer, a research group leader in the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD), has been granted $944,796 from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to further research that is generating smart nanoparticles that automatically regulate the optimal amount of insulin available to the body.

Tranexamic acid (TXA) is used to reduce
excessive bleeding. There is also evidence that
TXA has immune-protective effects.

by Anne Crawford

Professor Paul Myles, Director of the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine in Central Clinical School and at The Alfred, has been awarded a $5.19 million Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies (CTCS) grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to conduct an international trial of a medication that could prevent infections after surgery.

Congratulations to 2019 ARC Discovery project CCS recipients Merlin Thomas and Kelly Wyres!

Dr Kelly Wyres

Professor Merlin Thomas

Congratulations to Central Clinical School's Professor Merlin Thomas and Dr Kelly Wyres on their Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant awards! Read more about their grants below.

Professor Merlin Thomas, Department of Diabetes group.
Augmenting the activity of glyoxalase-1 to increase dicarbonyl clearance, $605,000 (2020-2022). ARC ID DP200101965
Dr Kelly Wyres, Department of Infectious Diseases group.
Unlocking the secrets of metabolic variation in a highly diverse bacterium. $515,322 (2020-2022) ARC ID DP200103364

Clips from the video: Belinda Gabbe (left), Velandai Srikanth (right)

How can sharing digital health data improve care delivery and support health service sustainability?

With the rollout of MyHealthRecord and other digital health platforms, Australia could have a fully integrated health information system - giving health professionals access to the right information at the right time to ensure patients receive the best care possible. Watch Professors Velandai Srikanth (CCS) and Belinda Gabbe (SPHPM) explain: Video

Associate Professor Christoph Hagemeyer (left)
and outgoing ASMR president Dr Roger Yazbek.
Follow @cehagemeyer, @TheASMR1

by Anne Crawford

Monash University’s Associate Professor Christoph Hagemeyer has been elected president of the Australia Society for Medical Research (ASMR), the peak professional body representing all national health and medical researchers.

A/Prof Hagemeyer, who heads the NanoBiotechnology Laboratory at the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD), took over the presidency at the ASMR’s recent National Scientific Conference in Perth in November.

Associate Professor Anne Abbott

Congratulations to Associate Professor Anne Abbott on how well she did in the 2019 Bond University Sustainability of Healthcare Awards! A/Prof Abbott was finalist in all five award categories (Health Literacy, Practice, Research, Education and Policy), and won the Policy Award for her nominated project, "Reimbursement indications for carotid revascularization procedures".

Professor John Wilson AM with AMA Victoria

president Associate Professor Julian Rait at the

23 Nov 2019 award ceremony.

Congratulations to Professor John Wilson AM on winning the 2019 Australian Medical Association (AMA) Victoria President’s Award. The award is a recognition by the AMA President of an outstanding contribution toward furthering the objectives of the AMA through advocacy.

Dr Trisha Peel is first author on a study

looking at antimicrobial prophylaxis in

joint replacement surgery

Recent publications from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments. This is not a comprehensive list:

Diabetes
Infectious Diseases
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
Psychiatry: Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre
Neuroscience
Peninsula Clinical School
Surgery & NTRI

How a rare immune disease broaches our first line of defence

Dr Robb Wesselingh is undertaking a PhD
in addition to his clinical work

by Anne Crawford

Autoimmune encephalitides (AIE) are a group of autoimmune conditions affecting the central nervous system with symptoms that include drug-resistant seizures, amnesia and confusion. A rare disease characterised just over a decade ago, it causes major disruption to the lives of patients who have it; at worst the diseases can be fatal.

Dr Robb Wesselingh, a neurologist at the Alfred Hospital, saw the effects AIE was having on his patients and decided to undertake a PhD to investigate it further. “It really had an impact on their lives, some had to take years off work,” he said.

Dr Emily Edwards (first author) and

A/Prof Menno van Zelm (last author)

by Anne Crawford

Patients with predominantly antibody deficiency (PAD) suffer from severe and recurrent infections that disrupt their lives and which require lifelong treatment. Added to this, up to 70% of these patients develop non-infectious complications (NIC) including autoimmunity, autoinflammation, gastrointestinal disease, and lymphoid malignancies, which are difficult to treat, putting them at risk of high morbidity and early mortality. PAD represents the largest group of primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs), affecting about 1 in 25,000 people worldwide.

Dr Jay Jha, who has won a DARP grant

to investigate the origin of DKD

Congratulations to Dr Jay Jha, an NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow, Department of Diabetes, on his successful grant award from Diabetes Australia Research Program (DARP). The grant of $60,000 is for one year, to investigate the pathological relevance of pro-oxidant enzyme NOX5 in diabetic kidney disease (DKD).

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
experience high rates of diabetes in pregnancy
(DIP), contributing to health risks for mother
infant, and the intergenerational cycle of diabetes
Study link. Image courtesy NACCHO communique

Recent publications from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments. This is not a comprehensive list:

Diabetes
Infectious Diseases
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre
Neuroscience
Peninsula Clinical School
Surgery

Professor Merlin Thomas has been awarded

the RACP's Eric Susman Prize for 2019

Congratulations to Professor Merlin Thomas, who has been awarded the Eric Susman Prize for 2019 by The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)!

This prestigious award has been made to Professor Thomas for his work in the field of diabetes complications, particularly his outstanding track record of original research, interactions with the medical community and the public, and teaching.

Dr Gemma Sharp describes her chatbot
innovation which has won her an AMP
Foundation award. Video 1:10 min

Congratulations to Dr Gemma Sharp, who has won a highly competitive AMP Foundation 'Tomorrow Maker' award and grant of $42,000 for one year, for her chatbot innovation to assist people with body image and eating disorders.

Congratulations to Viertel scholarship winners Drs Mastura Monif and Andrew Neal

Drs Mastura Monif and Andrew Neal

Congratulations to Drs Mastura Monif and Andrew Neal on their award each of an $85,000 one-year clinical investigation scholarship for 2020 from the Sylvia and Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation. Both researchers are in Central Clinical School's Department of Neuroscience.

Dr Monif's project is on slowing down gliomas using antagonism of a particular protein and Dr Neal's on accurately locating sources of focal epileptic seizures using artificial intelligence (AI).

Video(s) of the week: 2019 Translational Research symposium

Prof Alan Mackay-Sim (47:58 min)	A/Prof C. Hagemeyer (20:40 min)	Prof Gail Risbridger (34:28 min)	Dr Joshua Ooi (22:36 min)
Dr Kirsten Palmer (20:27 min)	Dr Kelly Wyres (20:23 min)	A/Prof Suzanne Miller (20:31 min)

The Central Clinical School hosted Monash University's 5th translational research (TR) symposium this year. If you didn't make it, you can now see our speakers in action. See more about the 2019 symposium at

www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/events/2019-TR-symposium
See links for programs, photo galleries, videos for previous TR symposia: www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/translational/annual-symposium

What has depression got to do with diabetes?

The MDD pathway is complex and multi-

factorial. Image: Tom Karagiannis

by Anne Crawford

Investigating the causes of depression might seem an unusual area for CCS's Department of Diabetes epigenomic medicine group, but that’s exactly what scientists there are doing – and in an ambitious way.

Researchers led by Dr Tom Karagiannis have conducted an interdisciplinary review of the breadth of biological pathways that can lead to Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). MDD is the most severe form of depression; patients experience chronic sadness and hopelessness, find it hard to go about their normal life and can think suicidal thoughts. One in five people is estimated to experience it at least once in their lifetime. Women are twice as likely to have MDD although the suicide rate is higher in men.

Keep up-to-date with our school's cutting-edge medical research!

We have created RSS feeds of our most recent validated publications on our school's publications web pages. 'Validated' means they are actually counted as Monash University's, so not every publication on which our researchers are authors will show in these feeds. See web page links below:

Professor Mark Cooper giving CCS's
2017 public lecture. See video

Congratulations to Professor Mark Cooper, Head of Central Clinical School's Department of Diabetes, on his successful grant award from Diabetes Australia Research Program (DARP)! The grant of $60,000 is for one year, to investigate the mechanisms underlying the action of lowering glucose in type 2 diabetes (T2D) in a particular class of drugs known as Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists.

These type of drugs improve cardiovascular (heart) and renal (kidney) outcomes, but it's not clear how or why given that there are no GLP-1 receptors in these organs. Prof Cooper is planning to test his hypothesis that specific hormone activity within cells is causing the protective effects.

Monash Micro Imaging Image Competition: closing date 10 Dec 2019

Monash Micro Imaging (MMI) has just opened its annual Image Competition for the 2019 round. Entries are invited from all optical imaging instruments and modalities (brightfield, fluorescence, confocal or other), and may be an original, processed or rendered image, or a movie/animation. There are as usual cash prizes for top 3 selected entries, and the top 13 images will appear in the 2020 MMI Calendar.

Details

Closing date: Tuesday 10 December 2019
Rules: See attached pdf, or download (Google drive link).
Submissions: via this Google form (or follow the link in the flyer).

Participants sought: Healthy female participants wanted for pressure headache study

We are looking for healthy women to participate in a study investigating pressure around the brain. It's known as "Idiopathic [unknown reason] Intracranial [inside the skull] Hypertension [pressure]", and it mainly affects overweight women of child-bearing age. We would like to find out whether or not memory and thinking processes are affected in this condition.

We're looking for healthy body mass index (BMI) matched control participants to undergo cognitive testing.

Photo of the week: Congratulations to winners of A+ EMCR awards!

2019 A+ EMCR winners: Matt Snelson (Monash Diabetes), Tiffany Bouchery (Monash Immunology and Pathology), Evelyn Tsantikos (Monash Immunology and Pathology), Melanie Gibson-Helm (Monash CHRI), Jessica Kasza (Monash, Daniela van Santen (Burnet) and Mar Quiroga on behalf of Daniel O'Keefe (Burnet)

The 2019 Alfred Research Alliance Early-Mid Career Researchers (A+ EMCR) symposium was held last week 7-8 November at the MCG. 68 delegates were registered from the research organisations based at the A+ precinct: Monash University (Central Clinical School (CCS) and the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (SPHPM)), Baker Research Institute, Burnet Institute and La Trobe University. See detail of sessions and presenters in the EMCR program.

Women and men age differently, and the

interplay of factors is complex

by Anne Crawford

It's well known that women tend to live longer than men. But how does their sex affect the way women and men age?

Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc) researchers were invited to review the evidence on this for a chapter in a recently published book about ageing produced by Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology.

Paul Gill, PhD student, has published his

first paper investigating the influence of a

high-fibre diet on SCFAs in the blood.

Follow Paul on Twitter @gillpaul93

by Anne Crawford

When PhD candidate Paul Gill began his biomedical science course at Monash University he had no idea his studies would immerse him in one of the most dynamic fields of contemporary science: the gut microbiome.

Paul’s first paper, recently published in The European Journal of Nutrition, highlighted the potential of dietary fibre therapy to manipulate the production of short chain fatty acids (SCFA) and blood plasma concentrations. SCFAs are a group of organic acids produced in the gut from the bacterial fermentation of fibre in fruit, vegetables and certain grains. They are important for gut health but then absorbed into the bloodstream.

Prof Paul Myles is a co-author on a Lancet study
looking at anaesthetic depth and complications
after major surgery

Recent publications from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments:

Anaesthesia
ACBD
AIRmed
Diabetes
Infectious Diseases
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
Neuroscience
Peninsula Clinical School
Surgery

Dr Robert Brjklača

Welcome to Dr Robert Brkljača, who has recently joined us as part of the Alfred Research Alliance -Monash Bioimaging facility! Robert is the facility manager and imaging support scientist. Robert obtained his PhD in Chemistry at RMIT University, with a focus on natural products drug discovery.

Since completing his PhD, Robert's research has been focused on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance applications, resulting in over 50 publications. Out of work hours, Robert enjoys skiing, mountain biking, and baking.

A+ Gender Equity Initiative: "The Care(er) Factor" 3-4 pm Tues 12 Nov

Career consequences for carers. Image: Getty

A+ Gender Equity Initiative Event: "The Care(er) Factor"

Join us on Tuesday 12 November, at 3-4 pm in the A+ Lecture Theatre for "The Care(er) Factor: Balancing Work and Family in 2019", hosted by the A+ Gender Equity Initiative.

Associate Professor Menno van Zelm,
JMF Centre Director

Monash University's Central Clinical School (CCS) is at the cutting edge of medical research in national and international arenas. We are publishing a series of our research highlights from across 2019.

In this article, we feature a highlight from the Alfred Allergy Asthma and Clinical Immunology Service and the CCS Department of Immunology and Pathology.

Centre makes inroads into rare immune disease

Professor Paul Myles, lead researcher on

the RELIEF study

Monash University's Central Clinical School is at the cutting edge of medical research in national and international arenas. We are publishing a series of our research highlights from across 2019.

In this article, we feature a highlight from the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine (APOM).

Major international trial to benefit patients having major surgery

Professor Jayashri Kulkarni AM at the

2019 investiture ceremony

$2.4 million to bolster women’s mental health research

Professor Christopher Fairley AO presenting

the 2019 CCS public lecture

Monash University's Central Clinical School (CCS) is at the cutting edge of medical research in national and international arenas. We are publishing a series of CCS research highlights from across 2019.

In this article, we feature a highlight from the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC).

Researchers challenge views on gonorrhoea spread

Dr Geraldine Ooi, recent PhD graduate from

the Department of Surgery

Towards better detection of liver disease in obesity

12 Nov 2019 Inaugural Monash Neuroscience Symposium

We invite you to attend the Inaugural Monash Neuroscience Symposium which aims to bring together clinicians and pre-clinical researchers throughout Monash University in all fields of neuroscience. We are proud to announce guest speaker, Russell Joyce, who will describe his journey and experiences on “Living well with Parkinson’s”.

It is a free event, being held 9am-5pm, on Tuesday 12 Nov at Monash University's Clayton campus. See details and register for catering. See detail of sessions and speakers below.

2019 CCS research highlights: Australian Centre for Blood Diseases

L-R: Oliver Le Grice, Ross Dickins, Emilia
Simankowicz, Margherita Ghisi. Ross,
Emilia and Margherita are co-authors

Monash University's Central Clinical School is at the cutting edge of medical research in national and international arenas. We are publishing a series of our research highlights from across 2019.

In this article, we feature a highlight from the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases.

Old cells, new tricks: study challenges our understanding of leukaemia

L-R: All the RAGE: L-R Ms Alex Dimiropoulos, Dr Raelene Pickering,
Dr Chris Tikellis, Dr Carlos Rosado, Professor Merlin Thomas,
Ms Maria Alejandra Zuniga-Gutierrez

Monash University's Central Clinical School is at the cutting edge of medical research in national and international arenas. We are publishing a series of our research highlights from across 2019.

In this article we feature a highlight from the Department of Diabetes.

Scientists harness RAGE for good

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