The Cancer Council WA and Western Australian Clinical Oncology Group invite you to attend their Proton Radiotherapy Education Event. The event will be chaired by Dr Martin Ebert, Director of Physics Research, Department of Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Visiting speakers include: Dr Scott Penfold- Principal Physicist, Bragg Centre, SA; Dr Hien Le – … Continued

Please save the date for the Accelerating Child Health Research: A Systems Biology Symposium co-hosted by the Respiratory Research Centre and the Centre for Personalised Medicine for Children. The key themes for this symposium include: Precision health, Multi-omics applications, Systems epidemiology and Date integration and visualisation. Abstract submissions are open now. Please submit your abstract to respiratory.research.centre@telethonkids.org.au … Continued

WAHTN will host a talk and short Q and A on the newly established Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC). The talk titled, Clinical and population phenomic approaches to augment clinical actionability and preventive medicine strategies, will be presented by Professor Jeremy Nicholson (Director of the Australian National Phenome Centre, Pro Vice Chancellor for Health Science … Continued

This talk is a unique opportunity to hear from Professor Roberto Solari about the process of commercial drug discovery. It will cover the basic techniques of target discovery and validation and how new technologies have influenced productivity in Pharma. Roberto Solari is a research biologist and is a Visiting Professor at the National Heart and … Continued

You're invited to participate in a Research Priority Mapping Workshop aimed at gaining an understanding of the issues which face individuals living with a neurological disorder and potential avenues for future research. At the Workshop, the research team will present an overview of the research program, followed by group discussions, sharing and brainstorming ideas about … Continued

The South Metropolitan Health Service (SMHS) is holding a full day Research Showcase on Thursday 28 November, 2019. The day will feature a number of events including a: CSIRO Breakfast Research Forum: Research Potential of Emerging Technologies, SMHS Innovation Presentation: Kaartdijin: Big Dreaming - What is it all about?, Podium Presentations, Consumers in Research, Technology … Continued

The WA Department of Health invites you to join their Palliative Care Consumer World Cafe. Share your ideas and preferences around what a good palliative care journey would look like. Light refreshments and a small payment will be provided. Register by 5pm, 29 November 2019 by emailing Christina Turco on Christina.Turco@health.wa.gov.au See flyer

Adaptive Health Intelligence are pleased to announce that a Bayesian adaptive trials workshop series will be held in Perth, 4-5 December 2019 to help researchers and statisticians gain knowledge and practical skills to design these types of trials. These workshops will be run by Bayesian clinical trial experts Ben Saville, PhD and Anna McGlothlin, PhD … Continued

The UWA Research Income Growth Grant (RIGG) Symposium on Climate Change and Future Child Health will examine the effects of climate change, environmental degradation and population dynamics on the health of future children. Given that children are estimated to bear 80-90% of the burden of ill-health caused by climate change, this issue is now one … Continued

Are you interested in: intra and intersectoral, collaboration for research for rural and remote communities? better health service models and research translation for rural Australia? improving WA’s research performance? Guest speaker, Professor Christine Jorm is developing a new Australian Alliance for Rural Medical Research (promoters are NSW Regional Health Partners and University of New England). … Continued

On Tuesday 11 February 2020 ACTA will hold its biggest webinar to date—the Super Webinar to disseminate and open communication around a document ACTA has created to guide trialists towards optimising their trials for implementation and implementability. The Super Webinar will be held concurrently at nine live locations in capital cities across Australia and New … Continued

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) workshop is aimed at beginners who are unfamiliar with TGA regulation. If you are making therapeutic claims about a product or have a product that is likely to be considered a therapeutic good, this workshop will help you to understand your responsibilities at different stages … Continued

Reflections and Future Directions   Join us while we celebrate our progress to date whilst imagining a shared vision for the future of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research. What's the showcase all about? It's an opportunity to: Be inspired by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researcher leaders Discover current and recent Aboriginal and … Continued

The 2020 Healthcare Immersive Technologies Symposium has two full days of innovation, research, policy and community. The Symposium is delivered in four half-day sessions, including From Policy to Community, Research Presentations, Inter-Industry Knowledge Transfer and Discussion Panels. The 2020 Symposium has the following discount options: If you're a start-up based in the City of Perth, … Continued

This training introduces Pawsey supercomputing and cloud resources and presents how to use those resources to aid researchers work. Please note each of the sessions is $25 Day 1: Wednesday 11 March 2020 09:00-09:30 Introduction to Pawsey This session is free and outlines the services that Pawsey Supercomputing Centre provides 09:30-12:00 Introduction to Unix 13:00-16:00 … Continued

Please note: Due to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, this event has been postponed until further notice.  Quantitative imaging is a convergence of medical imaging, computer science, multi-omics and the clinical sciences. It is focused on the extraction of image features which can be used as actionable biomarkers regarding disease and normal pathology. Improvements in imaging … Continued

A free webinar is being provided for the Australian clinical trials sector to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 (Coronavirus). Sector experts across the clinical trials eco-system, including, industry, regulators, health departments, HRECS, and sites, will provide information, advice and a chance to discuss the impacts. The webinar is independently conducted by PRAXIS. Australian biotech companies … Continued

Managing multi-site specimen collections can be challenging without the right LIMS to manage the process. Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND, Geneva) is a global non-profit organisation driving innovation in the development and delivery of diagnostics to combat major diseases affecting the world’s poorest populations. FIND’s Specimen Biobank has been using OpenSpecimen since 2017 to … Continued

The 24th Annual Human Genome Meeting will be held in Perth in April 2020. The Human Genome Meeting is an international meeting with a long history and broad audience of researchers and clinicians applying leading edge genomic technologies to study the human genome and diagnose and treat disease. The 2020 meeting is broadly spread across … Continued

The effects of COVID-19 has been far reaching with negative impacts being felt globally. While most industries have suffered greatly, the medical industry is operating at two speeds. Quests for vaccines and treatments for COVID-19 are being fast tracked to clinical trials while other innovations have slowed or put on hold. This webinar focuses on … Continued

This short seminar will discuss current COVID-19 research activities and their coordination in WA, including WAHTN's role in funding, coordination and prioritisation. Presenter: Professor Gary Geelhoed MBBS, FRACP, FACEM, MD Professor Geelhoed is Executive Director of the Western Australian Health Translation Network and was previously WA's Chief Medical Officer and Assistant Director General of Clinical … Continued

Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA), PRAXIS Australia, ARCS Australia and CT:IQ have come together to create, Beyond COVID-19: a solution-focussed forum, after identifying a need for the clinical trial sector to collaborate and share information. Beyond COVID-19: a solution-focussed forum, is an exciting new initiative for people working in clinical trials to share their learnings … Continued

Fireside conversations is a regular series of informal Q&A sessions between the WA community and experts from WA Health. Health Consumers’ Council Executive Director, Pip Brennan puts your COVID-19 research-related questions to Assistant Director General of WA Health’s Clinical Excellence Division, Dr James Williamson. When you register you can pose your questions about development of … Continued