CCS Recent Publications 30th July - 5th August

Recent publications for Central Clinical School feature affiliated authors in the following departments:

A/Prof Ross Dickins from ACBD
was last author on a paper about AML
that garnered coverage in the Herald Sun

• Surgery
• Medicine
• ACBD
• MSHC
• Peninsula Clinical School
• NTRI
• Immunology and Pathology
• Infectious Diseases
• MAPrc
• Diabetes

Monash research aired at major HIV conference

Jason presenting in Mexico City. Photo by Roger Pebody.

Melbourne Sexual Health Centre's Associate Professor Jason Ong recently delivered an address about his research into PrEP and STIs at the 10th International IAS conference on HIV Science, on behalf of the World Health Organization (WHO).

A/Prof Ong conducted a systematic review for WHO on STI incidence and prevalence in PrEP programmes, incorporating 88 studies. PrEP or pre-exposure prophylaxis involves HIV-negative people taking medications to stop them acquiring HIV. However, researchers, clinicians and public health policy makers have raised concerns over the role of PrEP which, while preventing HIV, facilitates the risk for STIs. STIs are increasing globally.

Club Melbourne Finalist 2019... Dr Joseph Doyle!

Huge congratulations go to Dr Joseph Doyle from the Department of Infectious Diseases, who has been selected as one of six finalists for the prestigious Club Melbourne Fellowship 2019! The winner will be announced by the Governor of Victoria at a special dinner on August 26th.

The Fellowship comes with substantial networking opportunities within Victoria's research community and $10,000 in funding to support research costs including an international conference attendance.

The Club Melbourne Ambassador Program is an invitation-only group of Victoria’s elite thinkers and leaders, who work together to establish, secure and host international business events to promote Victorian expertise around the world.

EMCR Best Paper Awards

In 2019, the EMCR Committee will call for six Alfred Research Alliance (A+) EMCR Best Paper Awards to honour the outstanding research that is being done and published by early and midcareer researchers within A+. The EMCR Committee will award six best paper awards of $250.

• 2019 A+ Biomedical Research Early-Mid Career Researcher Best Paper Award (3 awards)
• 2019 A+ Public Health/Clinical Research Early-Mid-Career Researcher Best Paper Award (3 awards)

CCS Recent Publications 23rd - 29th July

Recent publications for Central Clinical School feature affiliated authors in the following departments:

Adj Clin A/Prof Heather Cleland and
associates published on burn-related
fatalities in Australia this month.

• Surgery
• MSHC
• MAPrc
• Neuroscience
• Immunology & Pathology
• ACBD
• Medicine (Alfred)
• Peninsula Clinical School
• Infectious Diseases

CCS Recent Publications 16th - 22nd July

Recent publications for Central Clinical School feature affiliated authors in the following departments:

Dr Scott Kolbe was last author on a
PLoS One article this week

• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
• Infectious Diseases
• Neuroscience
• Diabetes
• Gastroenterology
• Peninsula Clinical School
• Surgery
• Medicine
• ACBD

Study links loss of ‘white matter’ in brain to MS symptom

Executive control includes the ability to stop ourselves from
behaving impulsively. The researchers have found that executive
control deficits are connected to reduced white matter in the
frontal lobe of the brain.

by Anne Crawford

While treatments are becoming increasingly effective in countering many of the symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS), linking actual changes in the brain to its more elusive symptoms is vital to driving the development of therapies that can ultimately halt the disease.

Monash University researchers, led by Associate Professor Joanne Fielding and Dr Meaghan Clough in the Department of Neuroscience, are investigating deficits in executive control, that is the way our ‘higher brain’ controls basic behaviour, and determining which area in the brain is driving these deficits.