Young HIV researcher honoured

Dr Robert Gillies

Congratulations to Dr Robert Gillies, 25, who received the Victoria Day Award for Public and Community Service by a Younger Victorian!

Dr Gillies is a junior doctor at The Alfred, and works 60 hours a week on six social initiatives he has founded, including an organisation that arranges volunteer trips to remote Indigenous communities and the not-for-profit "HoMie" streetwear label and retail store employing people struggling with homelessness.

He is also a HIV researcher, having presented his research at the International AIDS Conference and the San Francisco Liver Conference.

"It's a tremendous honour, not just to me, but to the teams of volunteers that give up their time every single day to help raise awareness for the thousands of homeless people in our community," he said.

"Homelessness is just so on the doorstep, it's just in your face everyday so me and the people that started HoMie just absolutely felt that we had to do something more, and it just started by educating ourselves.

"I'm really hoping that we are able to leverage today's honour and recognition with potential future sponsors and volunteers and any help is greatly appreciated."

The Victorian of the Year honour has been awarded since 1995.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-03/mike-brady-up-there-cazaly-songwriter-victorian-of-the-year/8672726

Congratulations to Dr Jae Young Lee on Dean's award for outstanding PhD thesis

Dr Jae Young Lee participating in Red Lab
Coat Day, an awareness raising exercise for
multiple sclerosis research

Congratulations to recent CCS PhD graduate, Dr Jae Young Lee, who is the inaugural awardee of the Dean's Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence 2016!

The award recognises Jae's outstanding PhD thesis, entitled "Targeting the molecular mechanisms of axonal degeneration, demyelination and remyelination in multiple sclerosis".

Jae's main supervisor was Dr Steven Petratos who will be attending to receive the award on Jae's behalf, as Jae is currently working in South Korea.

See more about the Petratos research group at:  www.med.monash.edu.au/medicine/alfred/research/petratos-group.html

Photo of the week: CCS 3MT heat participants

2017 Central Clinical School Three Minute Thesis (3MT) participants. L-R: Mr Nikolce Kocovski, Ms Emily King, Mr Matthew Snelson, Ms Mahtab Parvaresh, Mr Amlan Chakraborty, Ms Amy Wilson, Ms Jacqueline Riddiford and CCS postgraduate convenor Professor Rob Medcalf. See detail of their topics at www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/education/hdr-3mt-2017.html

Congratulations to Matthew Snelson, Department of Diabetes, who won both critical and popular votes with his presentation on the effects of dietary advanced glycation endproducts on gut homeostasis and chronic kidney disease. He will go on to compete in the Faculty finals 13 July 2017, 1.30 - 3.30 pm, S3 Lecture Theatre, 16 Rainforest Walk, Monash University, Clayton campus. RSVP here or watch via video link from Alfred Centre Level 5 Lecture Theatre. Good luck Matthew!

What's on at CCS 3-7 July 2017

Ms Lakshanie Wickramasinghe
is presenting Thu 6 July

Central Clinical School (CCS) has regular seminar series and postgraduate presentations. Event notices are posted on the CCS Events calendar.

CCS staff and students can see details of both public and local events (including professional development courses, trade fairs and Graduate Research Student calendars) and deadlines, at the CCS intranet's Announcements page

See CCS seminar index: www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/events/seminars.html

What's on at CCS 3-7 July 2017

Tue	04/07/2017	►	10:00	Dept of Diabetes student journal club: Osanna Wong
Wed	05/07/2017	►	11:30	Immunology Seminar: Phil Darcy (Peter Mac)
Thur	06/07/2017	►	11:30	Cutting Edge Journal Club: Lakshanie Wickramasinghe
		►	12:00	The Alfred Grand Round: Dr Diana Moir & Prof Catriona McLean
Fri	07/07/2017	►	13:00	PhD Confirmation of candidature : Ms Katrina Woodford

Save the date

• Thu 13/07/2017: AMREP Bachelor of Medical Science (Honours) information evening
• Mon 31/07/2017: Translational Research symposium: RSVP
• Thu 19/10/2017: CCS Public Lecture: Diabetes & its complications

Translational Research Symposium Speaker Spotlight - Dr Claudia Nold

Doctor Claudia Nold

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.

Doctor Claudia Nold is a research group head for the Interventional Immunology in Neonatal Diseases group and also part of the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health.

Translational Research Symposium Speaker Spotlight - A/Prof Menno C. van Zelm

A/Prof Menno C van Zelm

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.

Associate Professor Menno C. van Zelm is the head of the B cell differentiation laboratory in the Department of Immunology at Monash.

Changing the way we treat diabetes and its complications: 19 October CCS public lecture

Professor Mark Cooper AO, Head of Diabetes
dept in CCS, is giving a public lecture 19 Oct.

Public lecture on Diabetes by Professor Mark Cooper AO, 19 October 2017

Since the discovery of insulin over 90 years ago and a number of oral tablets after the second world war there was very little change in the treatment of type 2 diabetes until the last decade.  In the last 10 years there have been dramatic improvements in the way we treat type 2 diabetes also known as maturity onset diabetes, a condition that has become arguably the largest worldwide epidemic as the world has industrialised with increasing obesity and reduced exercise.

See detail here or below. All welcome,  RSVP for catering.