2025 Ackman Travelling Scholarships Round 2

Congratulations to Dr Zobaida Edib who was awarded the 2025 Ackman Travelling Scholarships Round 2.

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Congratulations to Dr Zobaida Edib who was awarded the 2025 Ackman Travelling Scholarships Round 2.

Dr Zobaida Edib is planning to attend two international conferences in 2026 to present her work, World Congress of Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology in San Francisco, USA (23–25 April 2026) and European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in London, UK (5–8 July 2026).

As a result of a generous bequest to the University of Melbourne, the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences is able to offer research travel awards, known as The Henry and Rachael Ackman Travelling Scholarships, to eligible early career researchers and research higher degree students from the Department of Paediatrics and the Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Newborn Health.

The late Emanuel Percy Ackman, bequeathed to the University in 1965, the income of his residuary estate in perpetuity 'in the foundation of Travelling Scholarships in Medicine and Architecture’ to be known as ‘The Henry and Rachael Ackman Travelling Scholarships’ and in the foundation of Lectures to be known as ‘The Minnie Ackman Lectures’.