MRFF grant to boost tumour drug delivery system research

Dr Karen Alt

by Anne Crawford

Dr Karen Alt was last week awarded one of the Federal Government’s inaugural Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) grants to progress cutting-edge research into a new method of delivering drugs to cancer tumours.

Dr Alt, Senior Research Fellow at the Central Clinical School’s Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD), was awarded $431,000 under the 2017 Next Generation Clinical Researchers Program which supports Australia’s new and up-and-coming research talent. She is one of 13 recipients who have been collectively allocated $5.64 million.

Win for diabetes! Paul Zimmet named 2018 Senior Australian of the Year for Victoria

Prof Paul Zimmet AO named 2018
Senior Australian of the Year Victoria

by Anne Crawford

Professor Paul Zimmet AO, Professor of Diabetes at Monash University, has been named 2018 Victorian Senior Australian of the Year.

Professor Zimmet was one of four Victorian nominees for the honour, which is a category in the Australian of the Year Awards. The other awards are Victorian Australian of the Year, Young Australian of the Year and Local Hero Award.

Congratulations to Prof Robyn Slattery, CCS Education lead

Prof Robyn Slattery with colleagues at a recent student function
she organised in conjunction with Department of Marketing

Congratulations to Professor Robyn Slattery who has been appointed as the new Director of Undergraduate (non-MBBS) and Post-graduate Education in the Central Clinical School. This appointment aligns with a restructure of our Education group, to provide tailored support to the individual teaching streams (undergrad Human Pathology (HUP) and Immunology; Honours; BMedSc(Hons); Translational PhD).

Congratulations to A/Prof Christoph Hagemeyer & Prof Paul Myles for AMREP Research Prize!

Congratulations to A/Prof Christoph Hagemeyer & Prof Paul Myles for the award of the AMREP Research Prize! There are two categories, clinical and basic, and the prize is awarded annually for the best journal article describing original research.

Image Analysis Workshops FIJI (ImageJ) starting 8 Nov

ImageJ screenshot. Source: Wikipedia

Do you want to learn to analyse and acquire data from your images?

ImageJ is a free, open source analysis program that contains many user-written plugins that make it possible to solve a wide range of image processing and analysis problems. It is recommended that all researchers have a basic understanding of the features of ImageJ.
Monash Micro Imaging (MMI) will be offering a free series of weekly 2-hour courses on the use of this software starting Wednesday 8 November 2017. See details below.

MMI Image of the Year Competition 2017 - closing date for entries 6 Nov

 Monash Micro Imaging (MMI) Image of the Year Competition 2017 seeking entries - closing date 6 November 2017. There are cash prizes for the best 3 entries. and the 13 selected best entries will be featured in the 2018 MMI calendar. 

Welcome to Maria Macuare, CCS Student Services

Ms Maria Macuare, 
CCS undergraduate student
administration

Welcome to Maria Macuare, who is currently assisting the CCS Student Services team with undergraduate student administration. Maria is part of the Flexible Administration Services Team (FAST), deployed to CCS. She is working with Lindy Friswell and Mary Ljubanovic, and her contact details are:

• M: +61 404 282 920 T: +61 03 9903 0859
• W: http://intranet.monash.au/fast/
• E: maria.macuareguzman@monash.edu
• Location: Level 6, Alfred Centre