WAHTN Clinical Trials Forum

St John of God Subiaco Hospital

The next WAHTN Clinical Trials Forum will be hosted at the St John of God Subiaco Hospital, 12 Salvado Rd, Subiaco on Monday 18 September 2017 from 4pm - 5.30 pm (see attached map). This forum is an opportunity for sharing knowledge, experience, advice, and ideas, in relation to current proposals for clinical trials, with … Continued

Research Skills workshops at Fiona Stanley Hospital

Fiona Stanley Hospital and Notre Dame will run Research Skills sessions aimed at Health & Medical Researchers on Tuesday 19th September. There are 3 x 2 hour workshops and participants are welcome to register for one or all sessions. Registration is via Eventbrite links below. Good practice in Clinically Relevant Research    8:30 am - … Continued

Aussie kids’ dental decay reported as ‘somewhat inflated’. Ethical Dilemmas in Money, Research and Policy

The University of Western Australia , Australia

Modern research in public health can make substantial differences to millions of people. With this scale in change comes responsibility. Responsibility in ensuring high quality evidence-based decisions are made, resting on good, sound evidence. It brings substantive risk when evidence is misused, misinterpreted, or reflecting a situation that is removed from reality, through inappropriate sampling or data analysis … Continued

Bioengineering and Biophysics workshop

The University of Western Australia , Australia

Critical Mass Research Group workshop will showcase the broad bioengineering and biophysics research undertaken at UWA. Attendees will have the opportunity to liaise with like-minded academics in their field and create new networks to expand their own and UWA’s research impact. Please see the attached PDF for the program. Students and medical researchers are very … Continued

MK2 signaling in cancer: Role and targeting

Telethon Kids Institute (Seminar Room) 100 Roberts Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia

Speaker: A/Prof Lenka Munoz Please see the attached flyer for more information. Venue: Telethon Kids Institute 100 Roberts Road Subiaco Institute Seminar Room

Career Development and Cardiovascular Symposia

Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Two virtual symposia: live feed from Brisbane and Melbourne! Please see the attached flyer for more information

Medical Imaging Symposium

Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

This Medical Imaging Symposium will showcase how medical imaging is used in practice and to present some of the most exciting emerging medical imaging techniques. The speaker list represents a unique combination of clinicians and engineers/physicists, with presenters ranging from surgeons, radiologists and ophthalmologists to medical physicists and biomedical engineers. The symposium will start with … Continued

Making Enzymes Dance and Sing

Presenter: Prof Gregory Weiss Professor of Chemical Biology, University of California, Irvine Please see the attached flyer for more information Venue: MRF Building, Rear 50 Murray Street, Perth

Planning behavior change programs: An overview of the Intervention Mapping approach

Telethon Kids Institute (Seminar Room) 100 Roberts Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia

Dr Rebecca Pedruzzi Senior Research Officer, Pilbara FASD Project,Telethon Kids Institute In this seminar, Rebecca will give an overview of the Intervention Mapping process and her learnings from Maastricht University where the training was conducted. This seminar will be of interest to those working across health promotion, risk reduction, or management behaviours such as treatment … Continued

New cutting-edge technologies in biomedical research

Dr Laila Abudulai is a Senior Research Officer at the Biological and Molecular Mass Spectrometry Facility (BMMSF) and Application Group Leader of Biomedical Sciences at the Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (CMCA). Please see the attached flyer for more information Venue: MRF Building, Rear 50 Murray Street,Perth

Public Lecture: “Acoustic Reflections: advanced medical ultrasound imaging and parallels in the mining and construction industries.”

The University of Western Australia , Australia

Presenter: Professor Jeffrey Bamber Head, Ultrasound and Optical Imaging Physics, The Institute of Cancer Research London and Institute of Advanced Studies Gledden Short Stay Visiting Fellow Please RSVP http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/bamber Please see the attached flyer for more information Venue: Fox Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, UWA

Mitochondrial tales of mice and men

RPH Medical Research Forum Seminar Series 2017 Please see the attached flyer for more information Venue: MRF Building, Rear 50 Murray Street,Perth Contact Details: W/Prof Markus Schlaich phone: 9224 0382 email: markus.schlaich@uwa.edu.au

“Rites of Passage” Seminar

The University of Western Australia , Australia

Presenter: Dr Sarah Lovett Shool of Human Sciences, UWA Please see the attached flyer for more information Venue: Room 1.81, Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Building North, The University of Western Australia

AusBiotech 2017

The annual AusBiotech conference has brought together Australian and international biotech leaders and stakeholders for more than three decades, creating a forum to reflect on the sector’s achievements and exchange ideas to further advance the sector’s standing both nationally and globally. AusBiotech is dedicated to consolidating this growth, and our 2017 conference will once again … Continued

NRP Seminar: From stem cells to clinical trials

Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Speaker: Professor Alan Mackay-Sim Please see the attached flyer for more information

Sir Walter Murdoch School Policy Seminar: “How to gently shake the world” : A Conversation with Dr M.R.Rajagopal

Murdoch University

“Dr Raj”, described by the New York Times as the “father of palliative care in India”, will discuss the just-released major commission of the British Lancet on palliative care and pain relief in the developing world. The report highlights the disparity in prescribing opioids between developed and developing nations, leading to enormous levels of pain … Continued