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Ingham Institute's Research Support Officer wins competitive scholarship

As 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.

Women's Health Week 2019

Please 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
Where: Level 9, Liverpool City Campus, University of Western Sydney, 100 Macquarie Street, Liverpool

Machine learning in healthcare

Machine 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:

• Understand the fundamentals, applications and limits of Machine Learning;
• Walk through the problem-solving process using the Machine Learning methodology; and
• Identify opportunities for Machine Learning in a healthcare environment.

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
Where: Western Sydney University - Liverpool Campus 03.4.02 (LS)

Stroke Week 2019 activities

You 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
Where: Boardroom, Level 1, Ingham Institute, 1 Campbell Street, Liverpool

Better, achievable data visualisation for communicating health research results

The 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 Fellowships

These 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 grants

These 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.

Applications close: 24 September 2019

Ovarian & breast cancer research collaboration initiative grants

This 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 2

One Accelerator Grant ( up to $25,000 for 1 calendar year ) and Three Seed Grants (up to $10,000 each for 1 calendar year)

Closing date: 4th Oct 2019
Notified: 29 Nov 2019

13th Annual Consumer and Community Participation Conference 2019

When: 20th September, 8.30am-3pm
Where: Holiday Inn, The Warwick, 355 Hume Highway, Warwick Farm
Cost: Free

RSVP by 6th Sept 2019
Contact: Lynda Johnston
Lynda.Johnston@health.nsw.gov.au

Call for abstracts: eHealth@Sydney2020

eHealth@Sydney 2020 will showcase the exciting and innovative research on the inter-relationship between health and digital technologies. It will bring together researchers, health services, and industry to build eHealth collaborations. 

Abstract submissions close: 5 September 2019