Welcome to MHTP Research Week 2017

MHTP Research Week got off to a great start with a very successful poster session today.  Nearly 200 posters were submitted and displayed, and winners will be announced at the cocktail reception tomorrow, 5pm-6.30pm in the TRF.  Posters will be on display in the Monash Children's Hospital foyer and outside lecture theatres 1,2 and 3 until this Thursday.

We are delighted to welcome our two notable keynote speakers this year:

• Tuesday 14 Nov at 10.30am: Laureate Professor Peter Doherty AC

Laureate Professor Peter Doherty shared the 1996 Nobel Medicine Prize with Swiss colleague Rolf Zinkernagel for discovering the nature of the cellular immune defense. Based at the Doherty Institute, and also spending part of his year at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (SJCRH), Memphis, USA, he continues to be involved in research directed at understanding and preventing the severe consequences of influenza virus infection. In addition, he goes in to bat for evidence-based reality, relating to areas as diverse as childhood vaccination, global hunger and anthropogenic climate change. In an effort to communicate more broadly, he has published five “lay” books.

• Wednesday 15 Nov at 10am: Dr Andrea Douglas, Vice-President, Research & Development, Strategy and External Affairs, CSL

Andrea oversees the global R&D strategy, product portfolio and R&D investment and prioritisation processes and is responsible for relationships with external stakeholders in the Australian Medical and Translational Research environment. Andrea also leads the Government Affairs Strategy in Australia. 

Andrea has held various roles at CSL since 2005, including VP, Licensing where she lead the in and out licensing of R&D assets, head of Global R&D Project Management and Program Director, Influenza, where she had oversight of CSL’s Influenza Vaccine activities.

Before joining CSL Andrea was the CEO of the Gene CRC. She also held a senior research role at WEHI where she studied the molecular genetics of breast cancer.

Andrea has a PhD degree in Forensic Medicine from Monash University. She also holds a Masters degree in Health Administration and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She has been a Director of AusBiotech since 2013.

We very much hope to fill the room for our keynote speakers.  All staff and students are strongly encouraged to attend.

Apart from the poster session today, all MHTP Research Week events will take place in seminar rooms 1 and 2, TRF.

MHTP Research Week program is available HERE