Congratulations to Fabienne Mackay, Eric Chow and Jeffrey Rosenfeld

The AMREP Research Prize 2014 for the article describing original basic research published in the journal with the highest impact factor in 2013 was awarded to Professor Fabienne Mackay (Department of Immunology, Monash University). The prize was one of a suite awarded for work presented during the Alfred Research Week 27-31 October 2014. See more.

Dr Eric Chow's poster won the Burnet Prize for Infectious Diseases Research from  those submitted for the Alfred Research Week. The poster was entitled ‘Ongoing decline in genital warts among young heterosexuals seven years after the Australian Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme’.  See more.

Professor Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld is the new Director of the Monash Institute of Medical Engineering. See more

Prize news and congratulations

Lukas being congratulated by Professor
Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld, HOD Surgery,Alfred

Congratulations to all of our recent winners and awards:

• Lukas Sahhar wins 2014 Robert Power Surgery prize
• Bernadette Fitzgibbon wins Young Tall Poppy Science award
• Prof Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld made a Knight of Grace in the St John's Order
• AIRmed researchers NHMRC collaborative grants

Two new prizes have been created for CCS medical students:

• Hatem Salem Award for Medical Research Excellence
• Nip Thomson Award for Medical Student Clinical and Research Excellence

Emeritus Professor Hatem Salem AM was the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases founding director until his retirement at the end of 2012 and Emeritus Professor Nip Thomson AM was Head of Central Clinical School for 10 years (2000-2010).

Monash Institute of Medical Engineering: #MIME

Monash University has recently launched a new initiative, Monash Institute of Medical Engineering. The Director is Professor Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld. Multidisciplinary teams of researchers, together with top clinicians in Monash's partner hospitals, are creating innovative medical technologies for the heart, lung, brain and vision. The broad research themes include:

1. Neuroscience and Vision
2. Cardiovascular and Pulmonary
3. Therapeutics and Regenerative Medicine.

See more: http://monash.edu/mime/
Tag: #MIME.