Debrief session for members of the NHMRC Investigator Grant review panels

Professor Mike Ryan is arranging a meeting with Faculty members who sat on NHMRC Investigator Grant review panels to discuss what has worked and what hasn’t, and to ensure a targeted approach to communicate issues to the NHMRC, and also to help guide future applications.

2019 Faculty of Science and Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (MNHS) Interdisciplinary Research Seed Funding Scheme

The Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (MNHS) are pleased to announce the joint seed funding scheme to support the development of interdisciplinary research collaborations between the two faculties which aims to form significant collaborations that will develop into external major grant applications will be running in 2019.

Falling Walls Lab Australia 2019

Falling Walls Lab Australia is a fast-paced pitching competition for talented Australian researchers and entrepreneurs to showcase their innovative ideas to an audience from industry, academia and government.

FMNHS Diversity and Inclusion Carer Equity Travel Support Grants 2019 - APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences is pleased to announce the Diversity and Inclusion Carer Equity Travel Support Grants 2019 are now open.

Success at International Endocrine Hypertension Conference

A/Prof Winston Chong and Dr Jun Yang
with the Chinese PA Research group at
the conference

May 17 marked World Hypertension Day, making it an opportune time to celebrate the international success and recognition of the Monash Endocrine Hypertension Unit (est 2010) headed by Dr Jun Yang, an Endocrinologist at Monash Health and post-doctoral researcher at Hudson Institute of Medical Research and School of Clinical Sciences (Monash University).

Upcoming 3MT competition

The annual 3MT competition is taking place in two weeks time and we want to encourage all of you to come along and support our students who are showcasing their research by presenting their PhD thesis in just three minutes!

Don't forget to register for 'Tea and Stories'

The 'Tea and Stories' afternoon tea hosted by the SCS Women in Science, DiscOvery and Medicine (WiSDoM) committee is now less than two weeks away.

Landmark study evaluating new sedation paradigm in ventilated ICU patients

A study led by Professor Yahya Shehabi, Professor of Medicine and Program Director of Critical Care in the School of Clinical Sciences, evaluated the clinical effectiveness of the non-conventional sedative, dexmedetomidine, given within hours of needing ventilatory support as the primary first line sedative agent.

Publications for 14th May 2019

The Australian drug harms ranking study.
Egerton-Warburton D et al published in The Journal of psychopharmacology

Peripheral Intravenous Cannula Insertion and Use in the Emergency Department: An Intervention Study.
Egerton-Warburton D et al published in The Academic Emergency Medicine Journal

The tertiary hospital laboratory; a novel avenue of opportunistic screening of familial hypercholesterolemia.
James Cameron et al published in The IJC Heart & Vasculature

SCS students recognised at Faculty Awards Ceremony

Congratulations to our students from the School of Clinical Sciences who have been recognised for their outstanding achievements at the faculty's Student Awards Ceremony held last week.

Mindfulness Seminar - Strategies for Better Sleep

All SCS staff are invited to attend a one hour seminar by Dr Richard Chambers on simple strategies for better sleep. The presentation will explore why exactly sleep is important and how much we really need.

2019 FMNHS Early Career Researcher (ECR) Publication Prize 2019 - APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (MNHS) is committed to developing Faculty-based Early Career Researcher (ECR) initiatives to assist our ECRs in the development of their research careers.

3MT Competition - come along and support our students

The annual 3MT competition is taking place next month and we want to encourage all of you to come along and support our students who are showcasing their research by presenting their PhD thesis in just three minutes!

Want to play mixed netball?

The Hudson Institute Student Society, HISS, will be running a mixed netball team open to staff and students of the Hudson for a unique opportunity to network and get to know each other. This is a friendly competition suitable for all skill levels.

Registrations now open for the Victorian Cancer Bioinformatics Symposium

Registrations and abstracts are now open for the 2019 Victorian Cancer Bioinformatics Symposium! This is a new event designed to bring together those with an interest in the application of bioinformatics in cancer research and clinical practice.

Register for 'Tea and Stories' Afternoon Tea

The SCS Women in Science, DiscOvery and Medicine (WiSDoM) committee invite you to attend an afternoon of 'tea and stories'.

Magnetic Particle Imaging Workshop #2

Monash Biomedical Imaging is holding the second of two workshops - Bruker Magnetic Particle Imaging Workshop 2 - for those interested in learning about magnetic particle imaging.

New findings to change the way stroke is treated

Associate Professor Henry Ma, Head of Stroke in the School of Clinical Sciences, and Director of Neurology and Head of the Stroke Unit at Monash Health, is part of a team of Melbourne researchers who have found the time to treat ischemic stroke in patients can be doubled.

Publications for 8th May 2019

Slow wave activity and executive dysfunction in children with sleep disordered breathing.
R S Horne et al published in Springer Link

Interval between IVF stimulation cycle and frozen embryo transfer: Is there a benefit to a delay between cycles?
Beverley Vollenhoven et al published in ANZJOG

Windmill-task as a New Quantitative and Objective Assessment for Mirror Movements in Unilateral Cerebral Palsy: A Pilot Study.
Brian Hoare et al published in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Hudson Institute - CiiiD Special Seminar

Professor Thomas Kufer from the Institute of Nutritional Medicine in the Department of Immunology, University of Hohenheim, Germany, will be speaking at a seminar on 'Novel aspects of non-inflammasome NLR signalling in immunity'.