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| Dr Courtney McDonald, Professor Alistair Gunn and Madison Paton in Osaka |
Established in 2009, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Falling Walls Lab is an international forum that promotes interdisciplinary connections between aspiring academics, innovators, entrepreneurs, investors and professionals, known for the excellent work.
Participants are given three minutes to present their work.
Madison presented her research into the use of stem cells to assist brain injury in preterm babies. Watch Madison's presentation HERE (go to 1 hour, 19 mins and 30 seconds).
In further news, Madison Paton and Dr Courtney McDonald took out the two major awards at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society Meeting in
Osaka, Japan last week.
Madison received the Tanya Gunn prize for best oral
presentation by a PhD Student for her talk entitled “Assessing human umbilical
cord blood therapy as an early treatment for preterm brain injury”; while
Courtney took out the Tanya Gunn prize for best oral presentation by a Post Doc
for her talk entitled “Differential effects of umbilical cord blood cells to
reduce neuroinflammation following neonatal Hypoxic-Ischaemic brain injury.
Courtney and Madison were ably supported by other
members of The Ritchie Centre who gave excellent oral and poster presentations,
including a memorable keynote lecture by Flora Wong, Department of
Paediatrics and Ritchie Centre entitled “Cerebral haemodynamic functional
response in fetus and neonate”
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