Congratulations to Gastroenterology for NHMRC '10 of the best' 2015

The National Health and Medical Research Council has announced its pick for 2015 research in its "Ten of the Best".
Congratulations to Peter Gibson and his team for their research on the actual effect of gluten in IBS being chosen as one of the ten. The document quotes Prof Gibson as saying:
“We demonstrated that gluten, without FODMAPs, did not specifically induce symptoms in patients who believed they were gluten intolerant.
“Indeed, all patients experienced reduced gut symptoms in the run-in period when they, for the first time, restricted all FODMAPs in their diet.
“We found no changes in the physiology of the gut in response to gluten.”
Link: 
https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/_files_nhmrc/file/publications/nhmrc_-10-of-the-best-2015_0.pdf

Congratulations to Robert Gillies for being one of 2016 JCI Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World

Robert Gillies, Year 5 medical student

Congratulations to Robert Gillies for being one of 2016 JCI Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World!

 

Robert Gillies is a Year 5 Monash Medical student and has officially been voted as one of the JCI 10 Outstanding Young Persons of the World. He is the only awardee from Australia! The awards will be made on 3 November 2016.

You can read about Robbie and the other recipients at: http://www.jci.cc/news/2129/Announcing+the+2016+JCI+TOYP+Honorees or see excerpt below.

Media mentions

The Age 17 August 2016 on why public
funding should be made available for bari-
atric surgery for overweight patients,  quoting
Prof Wendy Brown, Department of Surgery

24/08/2016 Kit Fairley on reducing oral gonorrhea bacteria count with antiseptic mouthwash. Many media mentions, e.g. http://www.teenvogue.com/story/mouthwash-kills-gonorrhea-std-cure-study

Opportunities: grants, fellowships etc via Faculty Research Office

Image: Yudihastono

Updates on opportunities from the Faculty Research Office

• 19 Aug 2016: Monash Research Office Seminar - Should I apply for an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship for 2018?
• 8 Aug - 20 Oct 2016: Global Innovation Linkages (GIL) programme open for applications
• Call for Monash EOIs for the Global Innovation Linkages (GIL) programme
• 13 Oct 2016 deadline: Cancer Council Victoria Postdoctoral Cancer Research Fellowships
• Australian Government - Science, Research and Innovation Update

Other opportunities

• 31 Oct 2016 deadline: World without disease quickfire challenge - best idea, technology or solution awarded $500,000

Position vacant: PA to Peninsula Health Professor of Medicine

The PA role supporting Srikanth at Frankston Hospital is now advertised on the Peninsula Health website. Applications close 11 September 2016.

Link to job description:

peninsula.mercury.com.au/ViewPosition.aspx?id=fOcC6BX8omw=&jbc=ere

Perspective: Higher education is key to economic development (but it's not as simple as you think)

Authors of a recent research study argue that we need to look at geography, skills and local companies to accelerate development. Higher education is key to economic development, but the way the two relate is complex, say the researchers.

“Of course investing in education leads to improved incomes, but that’s just too simple a model to account for real development in the real world,” said Dr. Simon McGrath, Professor of International Education and Development at the University of Nottingham and one of the authors of the study, which is published in the International Journal of Educational Development.

https://www.elsevier.com/atlas/story/people/higher-education-is-key-to-economic-development

Video of the week: Prof Steve Jane at the 2016 AMREP Honours night

Prof Steve Jane on why Honours at AMREP and what translational research is at the 16 Aug 2016 AMREP Honours and graduate research information night. Steve presented along with PhD student Angela Nguyen and Honours coordinator Dr Justin Hamilton for CCS. We will be posting all videos in a playlist. About 180 students attended the evening.

See more:

• Honours at AMREP: www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/education/honours.html 
• Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_lhKBfJuYQ