Welcome to CCS communications interns Riya Kiran and Ramesh Vidyasagar!

L-R: Riya Kiran and Ramesh Vidyasagar, CCS comms interns

Welcome to our two new communications interns, Riya Kiran and Ramesh Vidyasagar! They will be working with Julia Veitch on respectively stories and videos of our Central Clinical researchers' work.

Second-year Monash student Riya Kiran has a strong passion for journalism and its substantive role in disseminating crucial information to the general public. Her curiosity for news writing developed in Year 10 when she completed her work experience at the Herald Sun, and since then has been actively pursuing writing opportunities to further this interest.

Funding for research on development of epilepsy after traumatic brain injury

Dr Bridgette Semple in the lab. See more about her research

Dr Bridgette Semple from the Central Clinical School's Department of Neuroscience has been awarded research funding totalling just over USD$470,000 (~AUD$650,000) from the US Department of Defense Epilepsy Research Program (ERP) to investigate first-time onset of epilepsy after infection in the context of traumatic brain injury (TBI). 

Prize for PhD student Lakshanie Wickramasinghe's research on neonatal lung diseases

Ms Lakshanie Wickramasinghe, PhD student in the Department of 
Immunology and Pathology, wins Royal Society of Victoria prize

Congratulations to Ms Lakshanie Wickramasinghe, who has been awarded the 2020 Royal Society of Victoria Young Scientist Research Prize in Biomedicine and Health Sciences. Well done Lakshanie!

Lakshanie is doing her PhD in Central Clinical School's Department of Immunology and Pathology, supervised by Associate Professor Margaret Hibbs. Her PhD is on “Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor: A new target in neonatal lung disease”.

21 July - 17 August 2020 Central Clinical School publications featuring COVID-19 research

Recent publications featuring COVID-19 research as notified by PubMed during the month 21 July - 17 August 2020 from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments. This is not a comprehensive list:

• Australian Centre for Blood Diseases
• Diabetes
• Infectious Diseases
• Medicine - Peninsula
• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
• Neuroscience

A+ EMCR updates: 27 Aug 2020 issue

Dr Miles Andrews and Dr Meaghan Clough are the new editors
for Alfred Research Alliance EMCR updates

Hello CCS – Early/Mid-Career Researchers, Welcome to the new CCS - EMCR newsletter, designed as a quick and simple snapshot highlighting EMCR related programs or competitions happening around the A+ precinct and within the Faculty.

If you’re currently a research student or within 10 years post-PhD, then you’re an EMCR by our book, and we’re here to support you. This list is not meant to be exhaustive of all the available programs out there, just a curated list that we think might be of interest to CCS - EMCRs. For more programs, please check out the A+EMCR webpage and the ECR network page. See also recent news on the A+ EMCR website news page.

From the Frontline: Clinical impacts of COVID-19 webinar success

L-R: (top) Moderator Steve Jane, panellists Anneke van der Walt and Jane Fisher; bottom row Julian Elliott and Merlin Thomas. See the event video

The From the Frontline: Clinical Impacts of COVID-19 webinar series kicked off on Wednesday night 12 August 2020 with great success.

Hosted by Prof Stephen Jane, the event saw Prof Jane Fisher and A/Prof Julian Elliott from the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine join Diabetes researcher Prof Merlin Thomas and Neurologist A/Prof Anneke van der Walt from Central Clinical School, to provide their latest learnings about the virus.

11 Aug Alfred Research Alliance student info night went well!

The presenters and team supporting the 11 Aug Alfred Research Alliance student information night

The Alfred Research Alliance Monash Translational Medicine and Public Health schools together with the Baker and Burnet Institutes held our annual information night on 11 August. It was the first that we have done using Zoom, and it went well, thanks to the efforts of the organising team and all the presenters!