No Images? Click here Hello !Welcome to another edition of the South West Sydney Research (SWSR) We are committed to bringing you all the latest health and medical research news, opportunities and events of relevance to you! If you have any news that you would like featured, an event/opportunity that you would like promoted or would like to let us know how we're doing, we'd LOVE to hear from you! Hit us up HERE. In this week's edition: Monday 2nd September 2019
Caring for animals in medical research - a job you probably didn’t know existedIt’s not often you hear about the people working in animal research. Sure, there’s an occasional story about a new and promising drug which might mention it was initially tested on mice. But for the most part, people are unaware of how much work, and more importantly, how much care goes on behind-the-scenes in animal research. At Ingham Institute’s Biological Resources Unit (BRU), Natalie Stunnell (Manager), Alison Richards (Research Support Officer), and Crystal Espinoza and Virginia Dehl (Animal Technicians), make up the animal care team. Ingham Institute's Research Support Officer wins competitive scholarshipAs a testament to the quality of the staff who work at Ingham Institute's Biological Resources Unit, Alison Richards, Research Support Officer, has recently been awarded a highly competitive scholarship by ANZLAA. UNSW in the South West: Postgraduate SeminarWhen: 4th September, 4pm Join postgraduate candidates and supervisors for fortnightly presentations of their projects in the Ingham Boardroom. Speakers: Jeehoon Ham Click here to join the webinar. Women's Health Week 2019Please join us and our guest speakers as we outline how we currently, and in the future plan to address the challenge of sexual and reproductive health among women living in Western Sydney. Includes the launch of Western Sydney University's Women's Health White Paper ENSURE: Enhancing Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health in Western Sydney: An Intersectional Approach. When: 5th September, 3:00 - 4:30pm Machine learning in healthcareMachine Learning now plays an increasingly important role in medicine and health care. Participants will be introduced to machine learning methodology by working through concrete examples of its application to diagnosis and detection. Through real world case studies participants will:
Participants will be invited to bring potential problems from their work that may be amenable to machine learning, and a selection of these will be work shopped as model problems. When: 26th September, 1 - 4pm Stroke Week 2019 activitiesYou are invited to participate in Stroke Week activities. Our Stroke Team will perform FREE heart rate checks, blood pressure test, stroke risk assessment. Come and learn about F.A.S.T, and the importance of getting to hospital quickly for time-critical treatments. Resources from the Stroke Foundation will be available, with two presentations to occur during the event. When: 6th September, 11:30am - 3:30pm Better, achievable data visualisation for communicating health research resultsThe seminar will cover advances in data visualisation and research communication tools which are immediately accessible to and usable by health researchers. Your host and co-presenter will be Dr Tim Churches. When: 13th September, 9am- midday & 1pm - 4pm for the hands-on workshop Where: Ingham Institute. Cost: Free for both The hands-on workshop is to help researchers start to learn to use R, the free and open-source statistical analysis, machine-learning and data visualisation software environment. Warning: This workshop involves writing R program code, it is not point-and-click! Some prior programming experience is highly desirable. Places are limited. Please RSVP to timothy.churches@unsw.edu.au with “Data Viz Seminar” or “Data Viz Workshop” as the subject. If you wish to attend both, please RSVP twice. Australia-Harvard FellowshipsThese enable mid-career and senior Harvard-based bioscience and medicine researchers to conduct collaborative research in Australia, or Australia-based researchers to plan collaborative follow-ups at Harvard. Fellowships are generally worth up to $9,000 per month, dependent on seniority and length of stay. Applications close: 10 September 2019 Cooperative research centres projects grantsThese grants provide industry-led collaborations with short term (up to three years) matched funding of up to $3 million to develop important new technologies, products and services.
Ovarian & breast cancer research collaboration initiative grantsThis funding aims to tackle and answer the most critical clinical questions affecting women diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer. Closing Date: 5pm, 27th September 2019 Funding body : Rosemary Bryant Foundation Round 2One Accelerator Grant ( up to $25,000 for 1 calendar year ) and Three Seed Grants (up to $10,000 each for 1 calendar year) 13th Annual Consumer and Community Participation Conference 2019When: 20th September, 8.30am-3pm RSVP by 6th Sept 2019 Call for abstracts: eHealth@Sydney2020
Clinical Trials Coordinator - HaematologyApplications close 18th September Click here for more information. About South West Sydney Research South West Sydney Research is one of eight NSW Health Research Hubs established with a vision of making NSW a world leader in health and medical research. The Hubs are funded by the Office of Health and Medical Research (OHMR). We coordinate the efforts of local medical research institutes, hospitals, universities and community-orientated research to support researchers across the district. If you are employed by or affiliated with one of our member organisations, we are here to support you. Register for full access to the resources and opportunities we can provide. |