Photo of the week: Nesbitt group - Haematology Micro-platforms

2020 Nesbitt group. L-R: Ms Nurul (Aisha) Abidin Zainal, Dr Warwick Nesbitt, Dr Crispin Szydzik

The Haematology Micro-Platforms group in the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases is a multidisciplinary group focused on the development of novel lab-on-a-chip, microfluidic, and sensor systems in conjunction with basic research focussed microfluidic platforms.

Key research areas are clinical haematology diagnostics, automated microfluidic drug screening systems, and fundamental research into blood platelet mechanotransduction.

Due to the multidisciplinary nature of the research, they collaborate with a number of groups across clinical, biomedical, industrial and engineering disciplines.

Concussion in Australian collision sports 'under-researched'

Ms Georgia Fuller Symons, first author

on the paper, demonstrating the frame

for ocular motor function tests, one of 

the indicators of brain trauma

by Anne Crawford

Concussion sustained during collision sports including AFL and rugby, and its effects on players, is a growing issue in Australia but research into the subject is limited and lacks consensus, a paper by Monash University Department of Neuroscience researchers has found.

First author PhD student Georgia Symons said the review, which appeared recently in the Journal of Neurotrauma, found that most literature on the topic predominantly looked at North American contact sports such as ice hockey and NFL, and also European sport.

17-23 March 2020 Central Clinical School recent publications

Recent publications as notified during the week 17-23 March by PubMed from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments. This is not a comprehensive list:

• Australian Centre for Blood Diseases
• Diabetes
• Immunology and Pathology
• Infectious Diseases
• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
• Neuroscience
• Respiratory Medicine
• Surgery