Showing posts with label Infectious Diseases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Infectious Diseases. Show all posts

1 Sept 2022

Congratulations to MSHC team on their Eureka Prize win

The team at the awards ceremony. L-R: Prof Christopher Fairley AO,
Prof Deborah Williamson, Prof Catriona Bradshaw, Prof Jane Hocking,
A/Prof Eric Chow, Prof Marcus Chen
Congratulations to Monash University’s Associate Professor Eric Chow, Professors Christopher Fairley AO, Catriona Bradshaw and Marcus Chen together with University of Melbourne's Professors Jane Hocking and Deborah Williamson, who have won a prestigious Eureka Prize for their important work on sexual health.

14 May 2021

Congratulations to MRFF grant winners David Kaye, Andrew Wei, Heather Cleland, Orla Morrissey, Joe Doyle

L-R: MRFF awardees David Kaye, Andrew Wei, Heather Cleland, Orla Morrissey and Joe Doyle

Five researchers in the Central Clinical School had their Medical Research Future Funds (MRFF) grants announced in 2021's federal government budget. Congratulations to Associate Professor Heather Cleland (Surgery), Professor Orla Morrissey, Associate Professor Joseph Doyle (Infectious Diseases), Associate Professor Andrew Wei (Australian Centre for Blood Diseases) and Professor David Kaye (Medicine/Baker). See below for detail of projects.

8 May 2019

CCS Recent Publications 10th April - 29th April

Dr Be'eri Niego, ACBD, has a recent publication
STILfeatured in this week's article.

Recent publications for Central Clinical School feature affiliated authors in the following departments:



  • Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
  • Peninsula Clinical School
  • ACBD
  • MAPrc
  • Gastroenterology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Neuroscience
  • Diabetes
  • NTRI
  • Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
  • Surgery



21 Mar 2019

CCS Recent Publications: 12th March - 18th March 2019

ACBD researchers published on
treatments for chronic ulcers
Recent publications for Central Clinical School feature affiliated authors in the following departments:


  • Surgery
  • Australian Centre for Blood Diseases
  • Neuroscience
  • Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
  • Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
  • Infectious Diseases

24 Oct 2018

Recent CCS publications: 14 - 21 Oct 2018

Prof Paul Myles is a co-author on a paper
looking at standardised endpoints in peri-
operative medicine, in particular renal injury.
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
  • Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Medicine
  • Surgery

26 Sept 2018

Recent CCS publications: 15 - 24 September 2018

Prof Kit Fairley, MSHC,
is a co-author on a paper on the
decline of HIV diagnoses among MSM.
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
  • Diabetes
  • Gastroenterology
  • Immunology and Pathology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • MAPrc
  • Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
  • Neuroscience
  • Surgery

16 Nov 2017

"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.

13 Oct 2017

Recent CCS publications: 23 Sep - 13 Oct 2017

David Tarlinton with his group. He and Simona Infantino are last
& first authors respectively on a Nature Communications article on
how an enzyme called PRMT1 keeps B cells going once activated.
See video of David explaining the research
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)
  • Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
  • Centre for Obesity Research and Education (CORE)
  • Gastroenterology
  • Immunology and Pathology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Medicine
  • Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC)
  • Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc) 
  • Surgery 

11 Aug 2017

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 
Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for pubs listing. Linked headings are to the departments' home pages.
  • 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 

28 Jul 2017

CCS publications update: July 1 to July 21 2017

Dr Warwick Nesbitt with an Honours student, Emma Akers.
Warwick is last author on a paper describing a potentially
clinically useful, rapid and high throughput-screening tool
for von Willebrand's disease (VWD)
Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for pubs listing. Linked headings are to the departments' home pages.
  • 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
  • Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
  • Surgery 

29 Jun 2017

CCS publications update: 30 June - 7 July 2017

Reducing the maternal dietary intake of
indigestible and slowly absorbed short-
chain carbohydrates is associated with
improved infantile colic. See study
Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for pubs listing. Linked headings are to the departments' home pages.
  • Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine (APOM)
  • Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD) 
  • Gastroenterology
  • Immunology and Pathology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc) 
  • Surgery 

22 Jun 2017

CCS publications update: 17-23 June 2017

The Alfred-Monash AIRmed group
have published a paper on controlling
inflammation after lung transplant
Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for pubs listing. Linked headings are to the departments' home pages.
  • Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine (AIRMed) 
  • Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine (APOM)
  • Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD)
  • Diabetes
  • Gastroenterology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Medicine
  • Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC)
  • Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc)
  • Surgery  

5 Apr 2017

CCS student profile: Victoria Berquist

Victoria Berquist 
By Eliza Watson

Victoria Berquist has just begun her first year as an intern at Alfred Health. She studied undergraduate medicine at Monash University and in 2015, Victoria undertook a Bachelor of Medical Science (Honours) research year at the Central Clinical School for which she was awarded the Hatem Salem Award for Medical Research Student Excellence.

29 Mar 2017

CCS Publications update: 24 – 31 March 2017

Prof Mark Fitzgerald is co-author on two
papers notified this week, on cardiac MRI
and coagulopathy & TBI. Image: UMN
Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the departments of Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD), Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine (AIRmed), Immunology and Pathology, Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC), Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc), Trauma, and Surgery.

17 Mar 2017

CCS Publications update: 11-17 March 2017

Prof Robyn O'Hehir et al's recent
article on grass allergen peptides
Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the departments of Anaesthesia, Australian Centre for Blood Diseases(ACBD), Gastroenterology, Immunology and Pathology, Infectious Diseases, Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc), Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC) and Surgery.


Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory medicine

Abramovitch JB, Lopata AL, O'Hehir RE, Rolland JM. Effect of thermal processing on T cell reactivity of shellfish allergens - Discordance with IgE reactivity. PLoS One. 2017 Mar 8;12(3):e0173549. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173549. eCollection 2017.

24 Feb 2017

CCS Publications update 17-24 Feb 2017

Dr Justin Hamilton  (ACBD) presenting at a
2015 symposium. He is a co-author on two
papers published this week.
Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the departments of the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD), Diabetes, Infectious Diseases and Medicine.


Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD)
Carmichael CL, Haigh JJ. The Snail Family in Normal and Malignant Haematopoiesis. Cells Tissues Organs. 2017;203(2):82-98. doi: 10.1159/000448655. Epub 2017 Feb 20.

8 Feb 2017

Fascination with 'bugs' leads to cystic fibrosis research

Dr Katherine Langan presenting at the
2016 CCS postgraduate symposium
by Anne Crawford

As a child, Katherine Langan was intrigued by bugs – but not the type you caught in jars. Dr Langan recalls being fascinated by infectious diseases since she was about 12 witnessing the advent, then spread of HIV/AIDs in Australia. Even then she wondered what could be done about it. 

Dr Langan’s interest in ‘bugs’ took her to Liverpool to study tropical medicine in 2011 and to Bangladesh to see first hand the effects of malaria in one of the country’s major teaching hospitals. The hospital was an eye-opener: there was no running water, no electricity for much of the day, patients had to pay for everything they used and were washed and fed by their families. Dr Langan watched as malaria killed young people who arrived too late to be effectively treated.

Now an infectious diseases specialist at The Alfred undertaking a PhD at the Central Clinical School, her preoccupation is with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, specifically in people with cystic fibrosis.

3 Feb 2017

Healthmap putting HIV patients on the road to better health

L-R: Andrew Way (Alfred Health CEO), Dr Julian Elliott and
Professor Sharon Lewin (Doherty Institute Director)
by Anne Crawford

A novel program that helps people with HIV manage their own health is striking a chord with participants in an Australia-wide trial led by Monash University and Alfred Hospital researchers.

HealthMap links people with HIV with health care coaches in a program aimed at countering the increased risk of diseases associated with the lifelong illness, such as heart attack and cancer. The program uses phone-based coaching and an online shared health record to give participants a clear summary of their health status and support and resources to improve their health and quality of life.
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