Applications for 2020 Alfred Research Alliance Honours Scholarships close on 6 November 2019

Applications for 2020 Alfred Research Alliance Honours Scholarships close on 6 November 2019.

There are two scholarships available (each valued at $6000) for eligible students to undertake Honours research at the Alfred Research Alliance.

Position vacant: Senior Technical Officer at Central Clinical School

Applications for the position of Senior Technical Officer at Central Clinical School close 25 October 2019. 

• Job No.: 598419
• Location: The Alfred Centre
• Employment Type: Part-time 0.8 fraction
• Duration: 12-month fixed-term appointment
• Remuneration: Pro-rata of $87,249 - $95,695 pa HEW Level 07 (plus 9.5% employer superannuation)
• Enquiries: Dr Michelle Zajac, Research Manager, Central Clinical School, Michelle.Zajac@monash.edu

See more: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/598419/senior-technical-officer-central-clinical-school

12th CCS Graduate Research Symposium success!

Winners of the CCS graduate research symposium. L-R: Ms Rosie Latimer, Mr Rishabh Sharma, Professor Helmut Butzkeuven (judge), Ms April Raftery, Ms Alexandra Dimitropolous, Mr Martin Ezeani, Ms Erica Plummer, Mr Will O'Brien, Dr Robb Wesselingh, Professor Nicola Harris

Central Clinical School held its 12th CCS GR Symposium on Monday 7 October 2019. The day's presentations and fun sessions were respectively informative and entertaining. Congratulations to our winners! (See below). For detail of presenters and sessions, see the program booklet or web page.

Monash researchers develop new gene therapy tool

Dr Hannah Pearce, first author, and
A/Prof Christoph Hagemeyer, last author

by Anne Crawford

Gene therapy – the insertion of genes into cells to treat disease – holds great potential for conditions such as cardiovascular disease and cancers. Yet efficient and safe delivery of the genes to the right cells remains a significant, longstanding challenge.

Associate Professor Christoph Hagemeyer from the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD) has led a team that has developed a way of improving targeted gene transfer.

Body clock linked to healthy ticker

Article reproduced courtesy Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering

While many innovations improve our health, our tech-heavy lifestyles can have unintended side effects. Academy Fellow Professor Paul Zimmet AO has suggested that modern disruption of our “body clocks” may increase rates of heart disease, diabetes and depression.

He calls this “Circadian Syndrome” and is spearheading a joint initiative from Monash University, Tel Aviv University and Imperial College, London to have the term recognised internationally.

CCS's most recent publications feed

See Central Clinical School's most recent publications via the RSS feed below. This feed is also embedded in the school's publications web page. For all of our publications, see the Monash University CCS research output page which displays all validated publications.

Welcome to Professor Anne Holland and her group!

Professor Anne Holland

Welcome to Professor Anne Holland and her group! They have commenced as members of the Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine on 7 October.

Anne is a stellar physiotherapy researcher working on non-pharmacological treatments for chronic lung disease, for which she is internationally recognised as a leader in the field. Her research interests will complement a number of groups within Central Clinical School’s Departments of Immunology & Pathology and Medicine as well as other groups across the university and other research organisations. Anne is a highly strategic co-appointment with Alfred Health’s Department of Allied Health as our joint Professor of Physiotherapy. She brings a number of competitive grants from La Trobe University.