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Stroke, Diabetes, Indigenous Health and Osteoporosis: the Department of Medicine and Radiology secures competitive MRFF RART grant funding to enable cutting-edge research into major health conditions affecting the Australian population.

The Melbourne Medical School is delighted to officially launch a brand new initiative: the Strategic Grants for Outstanding Women. This scheme aims to assist talented female academics to negotiate some of the challenges they face in sustaining and building their careers with a view to facilitating their progression to senior academic positions.

Dr Priya Sumithran is awarded a David Bickart Fellowship to continue ground-breaking research into obesity.

The Melbourne Medical School is a proud supporter of International Women’s Day and in 2019 we have answered the call for #BalanceforBetter through launching an exciting new initiative to support career progression in outstanding academic women.

Healthcare is a complex and rapidly changing environment and the Melbourne Medical School is poised to adapt to these real-world challenges.

On the 3rd August 2018, the inaugural UoM/AIMSS Musculoskeletal Research Forum was held at the Australian Institute for Musculoskeletal Science (AIMSS), Sunshine Hospital, St Albans with the intention to build a critical mass of musculoskeletal researchers at the University of Melbourne together with the aim to increase funding and awareness of this somewhat neglected field.

Learn how an interest in diabetes in indigenous communities led Elif Ekinci to become a leading endocrinologist, focused on instilling a culture of compassion and care in our medical students.

The MMS departments at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (Parkville Precinct) held their Student Award Presentations on Friday, May 25

The Department of Medicine, St Vincent’s Hospital recently hosted a Clinical Practice and Research Symposium in partnership with St Vincent’s Hospital.

Certa Therapeutics, founded and led by Professor Darren Kelly of the Department of Medicine, SVH is awarded over $20 million from the Biomedical Translation Fund

Anaesthetists used to be considered non-essential in Mongolia’s health care system, but a collaboration with Australian specialists is reducing surgical mortality rates By Dr Amanda Baric and Associate Professor David Pescod, University of Melbourne

Professor Louise Burrell, Department of Medicine, Austin Health, is an author of an article in The Lancet Global Health, describing the results of the world's largest international blood pressure screening program

Department of Medicine, SVH PhD student Anna Collins, is being honoured with the 2018 European Association of Palliative Care Early Career Researcher Award at the 10th World Research Congress being held in Bern Switzerland

Mastering Migraine Management, provides healthcare professionals with the latest clinical advances to improve patient lives.

Dr Ada Cheung and Dr Jason Trubiano, two bright young researchers from the Department of Medicine, Austin Health were recently shortlisted for the highly prestigious Victorian Premier’s Award for Health and Medical Research.

Paediatric Neurologist, Physician Scientist, Professor Ingrid Scheffer featured in The LancetArticle by Tony Kirby

Associate Professor Elif Ekinci interview on ABC Drive. ( Audio)

Find out more about the Department of Medicine's new professional development course called "Diabetes Academy - What’s new in diabetes?"

A number of colleagues in the Department of Medicine and Radiology have been elected Fellows to the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, in recognition of their outstanding leadership and contributions to health and medical science in Australia.

Genome sequencing and precision therapies are on the way to making cancer a manageable condition rather than a lethal one, and may even make it preventable.

Growing older has its benefits, for women at least. Rather than becoming moodier as they age, new research has found that many women get happier in later life, particularly in the 20 years from 50-years-old through to 70.

High-achieving honours and graduate students were presented with awards in various categories at the annual awards evening held at Royal Melbourne Hospital on the 22nd May 2017.

Congratulations to Pam Morison and Nora Hanafi, recipients of the inaugural Melbourne Medical School Professional Staff Award.

A new tool can predict the likelihood of epileptic seizures, paving the way for a forecasting app that could be used every day.

Congratulations to Department of Medicine and Radiology Medical Students Benjamin Johnstone and Priscilla Yong on being awarded the People's Choice Awards for their 3 Minute Thesis presentation at the 2017 MD Student Conference.

Congratulations to John Mitsios, Medical Student and from our Austin Health academic node, on being awarded the best-judged 3 Minute Thesis and poster presentation at the 2017 Austin Meeting of Minds.

Anaesthesia has come a long way from its origins in dentistry in 1840s America, but just how it works remains a medical mystery. Professor David Story discusses the history and challenges of this medical procedure with Pursuit.

Diabetes is the epidemic of the 21st century and the biggest challenge confronting Australia’s health system, with around 1.7 million of us estimated to have the disease. But doctors at Austin Health are leading the way with a new early identification and review program.

DIABETIC patients at seven Australian hospitals will get a “game-changing artificial pancreas” that automatically senses when they need insulin and pumps it into their body.

A new device developed in Melbourne that is like a "fit bit for the brain" has the potential to predict and prevent epileptic seizures, scientists say.

Population health researcher Professor Cassandra Szoeke outlines what ails women as they grow older, how men differ from women in age-related diseases.

A new institute that brings together biomedical engineers, clinical researchers and industry partners to develop real-world solutions for public health has been launched.

A major scientific breakthrough finds that a type of medicinal cannabis significantly reduces convulsive seizures in children with a severe form of epilepsy.

Geriatrician Professor Andrea Maier describes to Up Close's Dr Andi Horvath what happens to our cells as we age, and explains the causes of age-related diseases.

Professor Darren Kelly from the Department of Medicine and Radiology has been profiled in a recent edition of Grow magazine.

Research led by neurologists at the Royal Melbourne Hospital showed that two highly potent therapies for multiple sclerosis – alemtuzumab and natalizumab – are very similar in their effect on the disease.

Applications are now open for NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarships for funding commencing 2018.

Heartiest congratulations to Professor Andrew Kaye and Professor Stephen Davis on receiving the 2016 Melbourne Health Chairman's Awards, the highest award conferred to Royal Melbourne Hospital staff for outstanding leadership and excellence in their chosen fields.

Associate Professor Wilma Beswick has been awarded this year's Brownless Medal for her outstanding contribution to medical education, particularly towards the training of doctors within the Melbourne Medical School.

Congratulations to Dr Pablo Casillas-Espinosa and Mr Andrew Neal from our Royal Melbourne Hospital academic node on their awards at the 2016 Epilepsy Society Australia Meeting in Canberra.

Professor Terry O'Brien leads a team of researchers in testing out the efficacy of a cannabis gel to reduce uncontrolled seizures in adults.

The Melbourne Brain Symposium 2016 took place on Thursday 13 October and featured an esteemed program of local and international speakers.

Melbourne researchers have grown a “brain in a box” — a 3D network of connected neurons made from a patient’s cells — that will be used to test medications for brain disorders so the best drug and dose can be found.

In an Australian first, leading researchers have come together to take bionic research to another level.

Congratulations to Dr Pablo Casillas Espinosa on winning the 2016 Young Investigator Award, conferred by the American Epilepsy Society (AES).

We congratulate all new Fellows on this important recognition.

The University of Melbourne has been announced as one of the foundation partners in a new Translational Research Centre in Nanjing that will enable researchers and clinicians in Australia and China to fast-track discoveries in basic scientific research and translate these into improved care for patients around the world.

In a world's first procedure, a team of researchers from the Royal Melbourne Hospital has successfully injected stem cells into the brain of a 64 year-old Victorian man as part of a trial treatment for Parkinson's disease.

The entry by the parties into the restated Relationship Agreement provides for the continuation of the long term, mutually advantageous relationship between the University and St Vincent’s Hospital.

An online contest in association with online platform Kaggle, the Mayo Clinic, University of Pennsylvania will let the globe’s keenest data scientists loose on the holy grail of epilepsy research — an algorithm that can predict seizures — using data from patients that has never before been available to researchers.

Congratulations to Susie Bellows and Emma Morrisroe on winning the Best Datablitz and Best Poster Awards from the Epilepsy Melbourne @ MBC 2016 Meeting, as moderated by international guest Professor Michael Johnson from Imperial College, London.

The low-carbohydrate Paleo diet that is becoming increasingly popular as a way to lose weight may instead make you fat and even cause symptoms of pre-diabetes, according to new research.