A design for the end of life: Rethinking palliative care as a home away from home

A picture speaks a thousand words – and Dr Nyein Chan Aung’s painting of the Melbourne hospital room says it all.  Read full news story here.

Medical teaching innovation yields results for infants at risk of cerebral palsy

Medical student Arrabella King and infants at risk of cerebral palsy have mutually benefited from Monash University's recent innovation of a Scholarly Intensive Placement (SIP) as part of medical training in the final year of the medical MD degree.  Read full story here.

Top researchers recognised in The Australian’s Research 2020 Magazine

Congratulations to SCS researchers Professor Peter Ebeling and Associate Professor Rebecca Lim who have been recognised in The Australian’s Research 2020 magazine. Read more here.

Review of ANCA-associated vasculitis published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Prof Richard Kitching

A major review covering all aspects of ANCA-associated vasculitis was published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers, an influential journal that invites key researchers to write definitive reviews of important medical problems.  Read full story here.

NHMRC Ideas Grants Peer Review - Call to Action

NHMRC would like to sincerely thank those of our researchers generously giving their time to support the research endeavours of others through their roles as peer reviewers for the 2020 Ideas Grants round.

ARC- DECRA Fellowships (DE22) Now Open

The DECRA grant opportunity provides focused research support for early career researchers in both teaching and research, and research-only positions.

DECRAs are for eligible researchers within 5 years post-PhD (i.e. researchers with a PhD award date which falls on, or after 1 March 2016). If you require a Career Interruption, see here.

Update to Australian Research Council (ARC) Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality Policy

The ARC Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality Policy has been updated to clarify the types of personal interests that researchers are required to identify and disclose.  Researchers will need to provide this information when they are on an application for ARC research funding, or on the ARC's College of Experts.

ARC - Australian Laureate Fellowships (FL21) Now Open

The Australian Laureate Fellowships (including Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship) scheme encourages applications from the highest-quality researchers by providing eligible Australian Laureate Fellows with project funding in addition to a salary supplement and salary-related (on-cost) support.    

A Call for Collaborative Medicinal Chemistry Projects 2020-2021

The Australian Translational Medicinal Chemistry Facility (ATMCF) provides Australian researchers with an opportunity to:

• access subsidised medicinal chemistry
• access the Therapeutic Innovation Australia (TIA) Pipeline Accelerator for further cost reductions
• work with a team of medicinal chemists who have a proven track record in drug discovery and commercialisation outcomes

MONASH UNIVERSITY - BAKER INSTITUTE SEED FUNDING FOR COLLABORATIONS IN CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH

Monash University's Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (MNHS) and the Baker Institute are jointly funding a seed grant scheme, to further enhance collaborative cardiovascular research. Researchers are invited to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) for funding up to $100,000 for collaborative projects.

WiSDoM Tea & Stories

The School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health (SCS) Women in Science, Discovery and Medicine (WiSDoM) Committee cordially invite you to an afternoon of Tea and Stories on Leveraging gains from COVID-19 and its lesson

Date: Wednesday 23 September 2020 3:30 pm – 4:30pm via Zoom HERE

Torque 'Covid-19: The New Normal' Event

Date/Time:

• Tuesday  6 October 2020 6:00 – 7:30 PM

The module will feature four experts in health and higher education who will sift through all the data and jargon to:

COVID-19: The steroids that are helping seriously ill patients survive

Recently, we learnt that COVID-19 can be beaten. For the first time there is an evidence-based treatment for this disease, and it’s a low cost medicine that can be accessed in most places on the planet.  Read full story here.

Halting the Oxford vaccine trial doesn’t mean it’s not safe – it shows they’re following the right process

Only days after the federal government announced a A$1.7 billion vaccine deal to roll out COVID-19 vaccines to Australians in 2021, one of the two candidates has halted its phase 3 trials after a participant became ill. Read full story here

SCS & Hudson ARC Fellowship Support Program 2020 - Call for submissions

 ARC Fellowship Applicants are invited to be part of the Hudson & SCS Grant Review process of ARC Fellowship Schemes. Through this process you will be allocated reviewers to assist with writing your grant.

Major gift to Neonatal Paediatrics

A new Chair in Neonatal Paediatrics will fast-track Monash University, Monash Health and Hudson Institute’s joint vision for newborn medicine and serve the community through advanced treatments and interventions and education programs.  Read full story here. 

MMC/MCH Site Alert: Cashier's Office Relocation

The Cashier’s office in Monash Medical Centre (MMC) is being relocated.  Cash Office services will commence at the new location on Wednesday September 16, 2020.

The new location for the Cashier’s office is adjacent to the Orange lifts on level 2

For further information, contact David Moyle, Site Liaison Officer Telephone: 03 959 44727 Email: MMCSiteManagement@monashhealth.org 

FMNHS Bridging Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (Round 1)

 The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (FMNHS) will provide competitive funding in 2021 to support the career development of promising newly-qualified postdoctoral researchers and final year PhD students.

FMNHS Senior Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021

The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (FMNHS) will provide competitive funding for researchers who have applied for fellowship support in 2020 but have been unsuccessful in obtaining salary support.

MRFF Consultation - Medical Research and Innovation Priorities 2020-2022

A national consultation process is now underway to guide the third set of the MRFF- Australian Medical Research and Innovation Priorities for 2020–2022.