Translational Research Symposium Speaker Spotlight: Professor Kathryn North

Professor Kathryn North AM

Monash University's 3rd annual Translational Research Symposium is being hosted by its three metropolitan clinical schools on 31 July 2017. The symposium will host a diverse group of medical researchers presenting their work into translational research. RSVP here.

The Keynote speaker for the event is Professor Kathryn North AM, Director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Director of the Victorian Clinical Genetics Service and the David Danks Professor of Child Health Research at the University of Melbourne.

Call for participants in the Translational Research Young Investigator poster competition

The TR Symposium is coming up soon!

The 3rd annual Monash University Translational Research (TR) Symposium will be held 31 July 2017. The event is hosted by the three Monash clinical schools and will showcase the diverse research from these schools.

A Young Investigator poster competition will be held, with a winning prize of $500. The competition is open to graduate student and early career researchers, who are within 5 years of completing their PhD. Entries now invited.

Congratulations to Professor Paul Myles on winning Clinical Trial of the Year!

Professor Paul Myles with Minister Greg Hunt MP at the award
ceremony, Friday 19 May 2017. Photo: Sophie Wallace

Professor Paul Myles (pictured) has won Clinical Trial of the Year, awarded by the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance.  The award was presented by the Federal Health Minister, the Hon Greg Hunt MP, on Friday 19 May 2017.

Congratulations to Dr Shiva Akbarzadeh for Technologist Award!

Congratulations to Dr Shiva Akbarzadeh (seen here on the left with ISCT president Catherine Bollard), who won the Technologist Award for her presentation titled "CEA as an Adjunct Treatment for Major Burns: A Phase I Study".

This talk was given at the International Society for Cellular Therapy, Annual meeting London 2017. Shiva described a Phase I clinical trial outcomes on Cultured epidermal sheet autografts (CEA) on a fibrin carrier that was carried out at the Alfred 2013-2016.

Congratulations to our newly completed PhD students!

Natalia Contreras

Hannah Pearce

Ioanna Savvidou

Chu Kion Yao

Congratulations to our recently completed PhD students Natalia Contreras, Hannah Pearce, Ioanna Savvidou and Chu Kion (CK) Yao! Good luck in the next stage of the career pathway!

Congratulations to Immunology prize winners!

Heidi Fettke won the Nairn prize for top
Honours student in 2016

Congratulations to the Immunology and Human Pathology students who were recently awarded prizes for their 2016 efforts!
 

Nairn Prize: top Honours student

The Nairn Prize in Immunology, named after the Department's founding chairman, Professor Richard Nairn, is given to the top Immunology Honours student completing his or her project at Monash and coordinated within the Department of Immunology and Pathology.

New peanut allergy treatment now in clinical trials

L-R: Dr Sara Prickett, Professor Robyn O’Hehir
and Emeritus Professor Jenny Rolland have
hworked together for years on the peanut allergy
research and are co-founders of Aravax P/L.

A new peanut allergy treatment developed by Monash researchers is now beginning clinical trials in Melbourne and Adelaide. If you would like to participate, see contact details at: www.aravax.com.au/product-development.html

Professor Robyn O’Hehir is Professor/Director of the Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine at Alfred Health and Monash University. Her research team, co-led by Professor Jennifer Rolland, over several years identified the critical components of the peanut allergy therapy now being developed by Aravax, an Australian spinout biotechnology company.