3MT videos from the 2014 CCS student heat: Ben Fancke, Sara Mokhtar and Kye Hanafiah

Sara Mokhtar. See video

Ben Fancke. See video

Kye Hanafiah. See video

Central Clinical School #PhD students regularly compete in the "Three Minute Thesis" competition (3MT), offered in every Australian university.
See more:

• the CCS 3MT event: www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/education/hdr-3mt.html
• 2014 3MT video playlist
• Photo gallery of the 2014 event

Videos: HIV Public Lecture; Prebiotic diet recipe playlist

Video link for 2014 HIV public lecture

HIV public lecture

Professor Jennifer Hoy has 30 years' experience in HIV clinical research and patient care, particularly on the effect of HIV and its treatment with antiretroviral therapy on different body systems which contribute to the increased likelihood of chronic illness such as cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis. Prof Hoy gave a public lecture on the transformation in the lives of people with HIV, how her current research is changing the way doctors help people with HIV, and outlining the challenges ahead. The lecture was an independent affiliated event with the international AIDS 2014 conference hosted in Melbourne 20-24 July.

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Prebiotic diet video playlist

ABC Catalyst broadcast a special two part program called 'Gut Reaction', Thursday 14 and 21 August 2014. Part 2 broadcast this evening (21 Aug) features a young, fit, active and apparently healthy man, Gideon Cordover, who trials a prebiotic fibre-rich diet designed by dietitian and nutrition researcher Dr Jane Muir and prepared by Masters student Trish Veitch, from the Monash Department of Gastroenterology. Gideon has been eating an unhealthy diet predominantly of fast food. His metabolic markers changed substantially for the better on the 4 week diet. See some of the recipes featured in our youtube prebiotic recipe playlist.

HIV research in Monash: Prof Jenny Hoy, A/Prof Edwina Wright, Dr Janine Trevillyan

Video of Monash
HIV researchers

Professor Jenny Hoy, Associate Professor Edwina Wright and Dr Janine Trevillyan are all based in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Alfred campus. Here, they talk about their areas of HIV research. Janine is a clinician and a PhD student supervised by Jenny Hoy. They both work on the cardiovascular health issues faced by ageing HIV positive patients. Jenny's other main area of research is osteoporosis. A/Prof Edwina Wright’s main research focus includes neurological disorders and opportunistic infections of the central nervous system (CNS) in HIV infected individuals. See more at:

• http://www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/infectious-diseases/research/groups/index.html
• Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umgBuply5Sc&list=PL3C_6vEl3O5Qi7WQDdMzPQb-ZHyQDyvr-&index=23

Prof Fabienne Mackay talks about restoration of immune function in leukaemia patients

Prof Fabienne Mackay:
Video on CLL research

Professor Fabienne Mackay talks about her team's ground breaking research published in the prestigious journal, Leukemia in April of this year. Immune defects in patients with #leukaemia prevent them from fighting the cancer. Their study looked particularly at Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) patients, as they tend to die from infection, rather than the cancer itself. They found that rare, but critical, cells to fight CLL can be restored. She says, "The best feature ever made to fight cancer is the immune system."

New videos of CCS researchers

Recent videos of Central Clinical School researchers are:

•  Monash cancer research funded by AICR
•  Monash research improving the lives of patients with MS
• AMA Conference presentation (Prof Jeffrey Rosenfeld)
  

See below for detail of speakers and subject matter.