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Wednesday 22 May 2019

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