(Formerly known as Central Clinical School)
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Study participants can complete web-based assessments from home in Dr Ian Harding's research on spinocerebellar ataxias. |
Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) are inherited progressive and life-shortening neurological disorders. People with SCAs experience a wide range of different symptoms, including difficulties with movement coordination, speech, mental function skills like thinking, and managing their emotions. Currently, no treatments exist that stop the disease progression.
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Professor Rob Medcalf was interviewed for an Anesthesiology podcast on featured research on fibrinolysis and trauma outcomes. |
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| Dr Sonika Tyagi |
Dr Sonika Tyagi has been selected as one of three finalists for the Women in AI [Artificial Intelligence] awards for 2022, in the category of AI in Health (see finalist list).
Dr Tyagi is currently a Machine Learning lead in the SuperbugAI flagship project, which brings together researchers and clinicians from the Monash Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Central Clinical School, Faculty of IT and Monash Data Futures Institute. Her expertise is in developing new machine learning tools and pipelines, and applying these methods to solve biological research questions.
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| See tweet. You can follow @Matt_Snelson on Twitter |
Dr Snelson presented on "Processed foods drive intestinal barrier permeability and microvascular diseases". He is a post doc in Associate Professor Melinda Coughlan's research group which focuses on dietary factors leading to the onset and/or progression of diabetes and its complications.
Their most recent joint publication is: Snelson M, Lucut E, Coughlan MT. The Role of AGE-RAGE Signalling as a Modulator of Gut Permeability in Diabetes. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Feb 3;23(3):1766. doi: 10.3390/ijms23031766.
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Challenging exercises can be both inviting and safe to undertake with good design. See the RAIL/NCHA exhibition |
Thanks to a Melbourne Design Week 2022 narrative portrait exhibition by Monash University’s Rehabilitation, Ageing and Independent Living (RAIL) Research Centre and the National Centre for Healthy Ageing (NCHA), ways to design for ‘civic good’ are being championed to empower people to ‘design the world they want’.
See faculty story
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Farewell to Ms Neeru Varese who has contributed to allergy research in the Department of Immunology and Pathology for over 25 years. |
by Professors Jennifer Rolland and Robyn O'Hehir
This month we farewell Ms Neeru Varese who has worked in the Department of Immunology and Pathology for more than 25 years!
Neeru first joined the Department for her BSc Honours year in 1996, conducting her research project under the supervision of Professor Jennifer Rolland on the T cell response to grass pollen allergens. We were then very pleased that Neeru decided to join the Allergy research team under the leadership of Professors Robyn O’Hehir and Jennifer Rolland and more recently, Associate Professor Menno van Zelm.
Rebecca was supervised by Professor Peter Gibson, Adjunct Associate Professor Antony Friedman and Dr Kirstin Taylor at Department of Gastroenterology, Monash University and Alfred Health. Her thesis is titled, "Gastrointestinal Ultrasound in Inflammatory Bowel Disease".
Gastrointestinal ultrasound is a non-invasive tool to assess patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Rebecca's thesis addresses key aspects of the application and prognostic value of gastrointestinal ultrasound in clinical practice.
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| Can singing help your COPD or ILD? Image: Solace Hospice |
The study aims to determine the effects of online group singing on well-being and symptom management.
Contact Dr Amy Pascoe:
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| Where did you meet your last partner? Take the online anonymous survey. Image: Shutterstock |
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How do SINFONIA participants feel about the experience? Image: Shutterstock |
