2019 Collaborative Seed Grants now open for Alfred Research Alliance researchers

2018 winners Dr Akram Zamani (left) and
Dr Evelyn Tsantikos (right)

We are calling for applications for the Alfred Research Alliance (A+) EMCR Collaborative Seed Grants!

The A+ Seed Grants are intended to assist in funding innovative research and foster lasting collaborations between the institutes.

Photo of the week: Drs Akram Zamani and Evelyn Tsantikos win seed grant funding!

Congratulations to Dr Akram Zamani (left) and Dr Evelyn Tsantikos (right), who are recipients of the AMREP 2018 Collaborative Seed grant award for their research project, "A new player in microglial activation driving inflammation and pathology in traumatic brain injury [TBI]."

TBI is a complex and poorly-understood pathology with long-term consequences, affecting the lives of children and young people well into adulthood. Identifying disease pathways that can provide scope for improved treatments is of utmost necessity and importance. This study will focus on how microglia - cells which provide the first and main form of active immune defence - act in the normal brain, and the researchers will then examine howthese cells respond to a brain injury.

Dr Zamani is a Postdoctoral Research fellow in Dr Bridgette Semple's Pediatric Neurotrauma Group, Department of Neuroscience; and Dr Tsantikos is a Research Officer in Associate Professor Margaret Hibb's Leukocyte Signalling Laboratory, which studies signalling pathways that play a role in immune system development, function and disease. Find out more about the AMREP collaborative seed grants: www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/research/emcr/seed-grants

2018 MIME Seed Fund meeting invitation

Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME) is preparing to launch its annual seed fund. The 2018 MIME Seed Fund will be launched through a series of affinity meetings with our partner hospitals. Researchers are strongly encouraged to attend these meetings if they are interested in collaborating with clinicians as part of the 2018 MIME Seed Fund.

Click on the links below to RSVP to attend the meetings and check details of location etc.

• Thursday, 31 May MIME Alfred Health Affinity Meeting 3.00 – 5.00 pm
• Tuesday, 5 June MIME Monash Health Affinity Meeting 3.00 – 5.00 pm

EMCR seed grants: Deadline 27 Oct 2016

Apply for the AMREP EMCR Collaborative Seed Grants Today!

The AMREP Collaborative Seed Grants are intended to assist in funding innovative research and foster lasting collaborations between institutions. Applicants should focus on explaining how the research is innovative, why the collaboration is novel, and outline how the respective researchers have the requisite skills to undertake the research. As a result, the AMREP Collaborative Seed Grants review criteria rewards appropriate skill level over track records, and genuine collaboration potential over convenient partnerships.

MIME Funding available for clinician-led development of new medical technologies

MIME Alfred Health Affinity Meeting

• Thursday 28 April 2016
• 9.00am - 11.00am
• Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct (AMREP), Seminar Room
• Alfred Hospital, 75 Commercial Road, Melbourne

Phase 1 of the 2016 MIME Seed Fund opens on 8 April

• Up to $500K ($10-$50K per application) is available to develop new medical technologies that address significant unmet clinical needs.
• We invite Alfred Health clinician researchers to present their suggestions on clinical unmet needs that could potentially be addressed through an R&D collaboration with Engineering, IT and/or other researchers.
• We invite all clinical and research staff interested in the development of medical technologies to attend. 

For further details regarding the seed fund please visit the MIME seed fund webpage:
About the MIME Seed Fund - Monash University

To RSVP to attend the MIME Alfred Health Affinity Meeting or if you are a clinician researcher wishing to present, please contact susan.newland@monash.edu

Susan Newland | Executive Officer
Monash Institute of Medical Engineering
http://monash.edu/mime/
Telephone: + 61 3 9902 0357 | Email: susan.newland@monash.edu
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