Newsletter | Issue 19 | March 2021

Construction begins on a $6.5 million building project to deliver new student accommodation and teaching spaces in Shepparton, as part of the Murray-Darling Medical Schools Network.

The Melbourne Medical School is redesigning its flagship Doctor of Medicine for launch in 2022.

Reproductive Health Biobank recruits its 100th donor, supporting research into serious pregnancy complications such as pre-eclampsia and fetal growth restriction.

Funding success to develop new blood tests that could identify pregnant women at greatest risk of pre-eclampsia.

Physiotherapy and occupational therapy students provide support to aged care staff and residents based in the rural towns of Beaufort and Skipton

Students use telehealth to deliver services to primary schools, aged care and human services organisations across rural Victoria.

Safer Families Centre receives Oak funding to better understand psychological violence and coercion for health sector change.

Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe and team awarded the RCH Foundation Grant to support their fertility care from diagnosis to survivorship research.

After the challenges of 2020, the FlashGM Study leadership team was able to catch up in-person to progress research on the efficacy of new devices that guide diabetes treatment.

Australian-led study to determine if the effects of BCG vaccine reduce the incidence and severity of COVID-19 in healthcare workers.

OPUS Consumer and Community Involvement Program seeks members of the public to participate in osteoarthritis-related research projects.

An interdisciplinary health research team is investigating using novel AI techniques in developing learning algorithms to improve analysis and interpretation of mammograms and ultimately transform breast cancer screening.

Australian research has proposed a means to develop an ethical framework to support national decision-making about which groups of people need earlier access to vaccinations during pandemics such as influenza and COVID-19.

An organoid model that accurately recapitulates the early human embryonic testis will create a paradigm shift in the way disorders/differences of sex development are studied.

New research highlights some of the care needs of prisoners facing end of life.

New clinical guidelines for the care of children with mild to moderate injuries presenting to acute care settings.

Several medical researchers from the Melbourne Medical School and its affiliate teaching hospitals and research institutes feature in recently published citation metrics.

The Safer Families Centre of Research Excellence is seeking participants for a national project about the experiences and behaviours of women and men while in intimate relationships.

A new exhibition – the brainchild of Professor Martha Hickey – celebrates positive images of older women through art.

Upcoming seminar discussing the challenges of improving geriatric trauma care.