SCS staff are invited to our End of Year Drinks and Nibbles 10am - 12pm tomorrow (Thurs
20th) in the Surgery Seminar Room, level 5, Block E to celebrate the achievements of all
staff and students this year.
After seven years in SCS, we farewell Ciara Boyd who has
commenced a new role at the University as Space Planning & Development
Manager, Buildings and Properties Division. 
We are sad to announce that Katherine Marks is leaving SCS after almost five years as SCS Communications Manager. 
The Program aims to support research that addresses
questions that focus on the comparative effectiveness of health services and
areas of health system practice with low or insubstantial evidence. The Million Minds Mission grant opportunity aims to support
multidisciplinary teams of researchers to undertake collaborative,
intervention-focused research that is transformative, scalable and
demonstrates the greatest impact on health outcomes and translation into policy
and/or practice. The grant opportunity will provide up to $25 million over five
years to support three initial priority areas for research: The Lloyd J. Old STAR Program provides grants of $1.25
million over 5 years to mid-career Scientists TAking
Risks.The
Frontier Health and Medical Research program creates opportunities for
researcher collaborations to explore bold and innovative ideas in the health
and medical research sector and/or make discoveries of great potential and
global impact.Australia-India Collaborative
Research Projects are funded by the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund
(AISRF). Not Submitting?
The ARC
recently announced a big change in the way research outputs will be entered
in ARC Discovery Project 2020 applications. Instead
of uploading PDFs with lists of outputs, all research outputs will now be
auto-populated from data imported into each researcher's RMS
profile. This change is mandatory and applies to both
Chief Investigators and Partner Investigators. 
The BioMelbourne Network Women in Leadership Awards were
launched in 2015 to recognise and champion women, at different stages of their
careers, who have made outstanding contributions to advancing the
biotechnology, medical technology and pharmaceutical sector, and inspire more
women to pursue leadership roles. In 2019, there are three awards, each
recognising leadership at a different career stage:
University research has the power to enhance our economy, improve our societies and better the world. But how do you get the world on board with your research and the potential benefits it could deliver? You need to Pitch it Clever!
MHTP Technology Platforms are an integral component of the
MHTP research strategy, providing cutting edge capabilities and expertise to
support research within the Precinct. Each Platform recently underwent a review to ensure
alignment with current research resulting in several rationalisation strategies
and actions have now been endorsed by executive management.
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| Associate Professor Maxine Bonham |
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| Prof Marcel Nold |
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| Dr Gareth Gregory |
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| Professor Melissa Southey |
Congratulations to the MMC winning team of this year's Monash 10,000 Steps Challenge. "The E- Block 5", comprising Poh-Yi Gan, Virginie Oudin, Daniel Koo Yuk Cheong, Kim O'Sullivan and Anne Le, clocked up the most steps and Daniel Koo Yuk Cheong won the best MMC individual trophy.
This year's SCS (1960s-themed) Christmas party was a fabulous hit at the Sandringham Yacht Club. Fantastic food, trivia (of course) and music, featuring our very own Head of School and School Manager).See photos here.
The
NHMRC Investigator Grants scheme is now open for applications in RGMS.
Thank you to all those who attended the Investigator Grant
info sessions this week. We had a great turn out with over 175
participants, in person and via Zoom. The Info Session recordings are uploaded in the Google
Drive (links below). 
Monash
University & Hudson Institute are implementing a new delivery protocol at
their site storeroom in their Kanooka Grove buildings.
As we approach the end-of-year closedown period (from Friday 21 December
2018 to Tuesday 1 January 2019), we remind supervisors to make sure all staff
timesheets are submitted and approved to ensure staff payment prior to
closedown. |
| Associate Professor Michael Fahey |
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| Professor Dominique Cadilhac |
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| Dr Sarah Zaman |
The new NHMRC Investigator Grant scheme is due to open on
5th December 2018.The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Keeping Australians Out of Hospital grant
opportunity will support research into evidence-based, implementable and
scalable preventive health measures that aim to prevent the development, or
promote better management of complex and chronic health conditions,
improve quality of life for people with these conditions and keep them out of
hospital. 
With the ARC DPs and DECRA on the horizon, you may have questions
regarding eligibility, staying clear of the Medical Research Policy, how best
to address the selection criteria, or you may need a clarification of the
Funding Rules as relevant to your particular scenario. |
| Dr Connie Wong with her team |
The
Monash Research Office have drafted an offline application form to assist
applicants with preparing their Investigator Grant application before the RGMS
application form opens on the 5th of December 2018.
Two scholarships and four bursaries are offered to female students undertaking a PhD or doctoral degree course through the Australian Communities Foundation. Read more.
We are approaching that time of the year when we start
thinking about Christmas Decorations. |
| Dr Rachel Hill |
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| Associate Professor Megan Wallace |
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| Sarah Luu presenting her poster at the recent CCS graduate symposium |
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| Dr Charlotte Keung |
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| Rathina Ragavan |
The
NHMRC have invited Monash to participate in stage 2 of the Investigating Clinician
Researcher Career Pathways Project, a survey of Australian clinician
researchers. 
Pure
has the functionality to run an automated search of Scopus to look for outputs
that are available in Scopus but not currently entered in Pure. In the past,
the search criteria was not as robust as it should have been, resulting in
numerous import errors that caused problems for individual researchers and
central teams. The decision was made to switch off the automated search, so as
to not interfere with the preparation and submission of ERA 2018.
The
development grants scheme provides financial support to individual researchers
and/or research teams to undertake health and medical research within Australia
at the proof-of-concept stage that specifically drives towards a commercial
outcome within a foreseeable time frame.
Please refer to the attached Prizes & Awards(P&A) Calendar for opportunities
closing in November 2018 to February 2019. Please note that Green means
we have had winners in this category in the past. 
Australia
Israel Medical Research’s (AUSiMED) is offering an exciting Neuro-immunology
fellowship commencing in 2019, in the world leading Unit of Neuro-immunology
and Center of Multiple Sclerosis at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center
in Jerusalem, for an Australian medical science PhD student.There is a
significant upgrade of Moodle planned for December 7-9. Official
communication will be sent out to all teaching staff shortly. 
Save up to $500 off NextSeq runs and up to $1000 off each HiSeq 3000 lane before the end of the year.
