2018 MHTP Research Symposium success

Prof William Sievert, Prof Eric Morand,
Prof Ian Frazer AC, Prof Paul Hertzog

This year’s MHTP Research Symposium was an overwhelming success.  More than 220 posters were submitted and displayed throughout Monash Medical Centre, the Monash Children’s Hospital and the Translational Research Facility.  For the third consecutive year there were ‘standing room’ only crowds for the keynote speaker.  Professor Ian Frazer AC spoke about the history of papillomavirus and the development of a vaccine.

MHTP Research Symposium 2018 - poster competition abstract submissions OPEN NOW

A highlight of the MHTP Research Symposium is the poster competition.  This year the poster showcase will take place on Wednesday 7 November at various locations throughout the precinct. The highest ranked poster from each research category will be awarded a $500 cash prize.

Applications are now open, and will close on 10 September.   More information HERE about how to submit your abstract as well as our draft program.

MHTP Research Week success

This year’s MHTP Research Week was an overwhelming success.  Nearly 200 posters were submitted and displayed throughout Monash Medical Centre and the Monash Children’s Hospital.  The two keynote speakers— Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty AC and Vice-President, Research & Development, CSL Dr Andrea Douglas—drew ‘standing room’ only crowds.

See full photo gallery HERE.

Winners of the poster competition were:

Poster Category	Abstract title	Best Poster Prize Winner - $500
Cardiovascular disease	Age dependent effect on post-stroke infection	Shu Wen Wen
Child and neonatal health	Differential effects of umbilical cord blood cells to reduce neuroinflammation following neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury	Courtney McDonald
Diabetes, obesity, men’s health & reproduction and endocrinology	Sarcopenic Obesity is Associated with Lower Proximal Tibial Cortical Bone Quality, Increased Intermuscular Adipose Tissue and Poor Physical Function in Community-Dwelling Older Adults	David Scott
Emergency medicine, anaesthetics, intensive care and surgery	Determining an optimal skin closure technique for children undergoing elective surgical procedures	Sarthak Tandon
Inflammatory and infectious diseases	The role of dietary fibre on the progression of colitis	Kathryn Kumar
Mental health and neurosciences	Mesenchymal stem cells modulate brain inflammation after LPS administration in preterm fetal sheep	Madison Paton
Nursing and midwifery	Admission temperature of preterm infants – mitigating the effects of increased transportation time and distance to A new NICU	Kate Duthie
Oncology (First State Super corporate sponsor) Bill to thank First State super for their sponsorship.	Novel Therapeutic Strategies in Thyroid Cancer	Nalian Ibrahim
Public health and health services	Factors associated with stroke patients experiencing severe complications in acute hospitals in New South Wales (Australia)	Tara Purvis
Women’s health and female reproduction	The Effect of Partial Amniotic Carbon Dioxide Insufflation on the Fetus During Fetoscopic Surgery	Benjamin Amberg
Other	The Best Way To Go”; Navigating hospital end of life care research dilemmas”	Felicity Moon

Prof Eric Morand, Ms Brittany Croft, Dr Nitesh Nerlekar,
Mr Dinesh Giritharan, Ms Madison Paton, Dr Stacey Ellery

Winners of the PhD student showcase symposium were:

1^st place: Dr Nitesh Nerlekar (Epicardial Adipose Tissue – The link between inflammation, obesity and coronary artery disease)

2^nd place: Ms Madison Paton (Mesenchymal stem cell therapy for preterm brain injury in fetal sheep)

People’s choice: Ms Brittany Croft (Investigating the role of FGF9 in disorders of sex development)

Winners of the Best of ECR Oral Presentations were:

1^st place: Mr Dinesh Giritharan (Use of decision support tools for discharge planning in a general medical unit)

2^nd place: Dr Stacy Ellery (Creatine synthesis in fetal growth restriction and preeclampsia: potential implications for placental bioenergetics)

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

MHTP Research Week is NEXT WEEK. ALL staff and students encouraged to attend.

All staff and students are expected to experience MHTP Research Week in the same way as being at a conference, when everyday work gets left for later and the conference becomes the work of the day. 

Other than clinical work, student exams, or safety issues, SCS expects staff and students to allocate time in their schedules to attend the entire program next week at MMC:

Mon 13 Nov	10am -12pm	Poster sessions	MMC and Monash Children’s Hospital
Tues 14 Nov	9am – 5pm	Official opening, keynote speaker Laureate Professor Peter Doherty, presentations, ECR speed networking event	TRF seminar rooms 1 & 2
Tues 14 Nov	5pm – 6.30pm	Cocktail reception and prize awards	TRF seminar rooms 1 & 2
Wed 15 Nov	9am – 5.30pm	Keynote speaker Dr Andrea Douglas, presentations, PhD student showcase symposium and prize awards	TRF seminar rooms 1 & 2

Full program is available HERE.   

All sessions are FULLY catered.

MHTP Research Week ECR networking event

As part of the MHTP Research Week (10th-17th of November), the SCS-Hudson ECR committees are happy to announce the Speed Networking Event, a new opportunity for ECRs to receive substantial research funding, which is scheduled for Tuesday the 14th of November, 3.40pm - 5.00pm. 

The format will be casual, one-on-one conversations with other ECRs to find common interests and unearth potential novel research ideas. The committees will ask for EOIs with invitations for full applications after an initial round of selection.

We are very pleased to announce that $10,000 is currently available, kindly sponsored by the SCS and Hudson Institute.

Please use this link to register as spaces are limited: https://my.monash.edu.au/news-and-events/bookings/mmcbs/view/221025/ 

Please come and support the ECR community and be in the running for the research grant. We look forward to seeing you there!

P.S. ECRs are those who are within 10 years post-PhD completion.

MHTP Research Week poster competition - call for abstracts NOW. Submissions close 20 October.

MHTP Research Week is an exciting opportunity to acknowledge the achievements and showcase the ground-breaking research being conducted at the Monash Health Translation Precinct.

Poster competition and Early Career Researchers Awards.

A key element of Research Week is the poster competition and display.  The poster competition includes awards for Best Posters and Early Career Researchers. 

There will be a $500 prize for the Best Poster in each research category.  

The best Early Career Researcher will be chosen from the abstracts and the top four will be invited to present their research at an oral presentation. The first prize winner will receive $1,000.  

Please submit your entries online by clicking on the link below and following the instructions.  You will need to create a Currinda account (instructions on the link below).

https://mhtp.currinda.com/register/event/7 

Please note that the closing date for poster submissions is Friday 20 October.

For further information, please contact Annette.McClellan@monashhealth.org  or jinleng.graham@monash.edu

2016 MHTP Research Week success

Professor Anne Kelso

The inaugural MHTP Research Week last week was an overwhelming success, attended by hundreds of researchers, clinicians, students and staff across the precinct.

Keynote speakers Monash University Chancellor Mr Simon McKeon AO and National Health and Medical Research Council CEO Professor Anne Kelso AO attracted standing-room only audiences.

Professor Kelso spoke about the impact of medical research on improvements in health care and services, funding pressures on researchers and future changes to the NHMRC.  If you missed her presentation, Professor Kelso’s slides are HERE.

View the 2016 MHTP Research Week photo gallery HERE.

Congratulations to the following poster prize winners.
Awards

Cancer	►	1st	CA5 Dean Popovski
Cardiovascular	►	1st	CV11 Brian Ko
Child Health and Neontal Health	►	1st	CH19 Flora Wong
Diabetes, Obesity, Men’s Health and Endocrinology	►	1st	EN10 David Scott
Inflammation & Infectious Diseases	►	1st	ID2 Michaela Finsterbusch
Mental Health & Neurosciences	►	1st	NS6 Thanh Phan
Women’s Health	►	1st	WM16 Harriet Fitzgerald
Nursing and Midwifery	►	1st	NM4 Christine East
Public Health & Health Services (including Ageing and Allied Health)	►	1st	PH7 Amanda Thrift
EM/Anaesthetics/ICU/Trauma/Surgery	►	1st	SU3 Simon Bell
ECR
Virginia Deswaerte	►	1st	$1,000
Amy Winship	►	2nd	$300
Le Son Tran	►	3rd	$100

MHTP Research Week and Poster Display

Welcome to MHTP Research Week.

MHTP Research Week Program is HERE.   More details HERE.   

MHTP Research Week posters will be displayed over 2 sessions.  

Session 1 – 8.30am Monday 21^st November to 5.00pm Tuesday 22^nd November.

Session 2 – 8.30am Wednesday 23^rd November to 8.00am Friday 25^th November.

Posters will be displayed in the following areas:

TRF Building Level 7 Boardroom

TRF Building Level 7 Foyer

TRF Building Bridge Level 3

Monash Health Art Space outside Lecture Theatre 3

Monash Health Meeting Place

(Please note the Meeting Space is located in Monash Health outside Lecture Theatre 2).

 Session 1 - 8.30am Monday 21^st November to 5.00pm Tuesday 22^nd November

Category	Location
Child Health & Neonatal Health	TRF Building Level 7 Boardroom & Meeting Place
Diabetes, Obesity, Men’s Health & Endocrinology	TRF Building Level 7 Foyer & LinkbBridge
Mental Health & Neurosciences	TRF Building Level 7 Foyer
Ageing	TRF Building Level 7 Boardroom
Cancer	TRF Building Level 7 Boardroom
Allied Health	Monash Health Art Space outside Lecture Theatre 3
EM/Anaesthetics/ICU/Trauma	TRF Building Linkbridge Level 3

 

 Session 2 - 8.30am Wednesday 23^rd November to 8.30am Friday 25^th November

Category	Location
Public Health and Health Service	TRF Building Level 7 Boardroom & Monash Health Art Space outside Lecture Theatre 3
Cardiovascular Disease	TRF Building Level 7 Boardroom & Linkbridge Level 3
Inflammatory & Infectious Diseases	TRF Building Level 7 Foyer
Women’s Health	TRF Building Level 7 Foyer & Linkbridge Level 3
Nursing & Midwifery	Monash Health Meeting Place
Surgery	TRF Building Linkbridge Level 3