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Dear members, colleagues, and supporters of the Centre Please remember to donate to Movember at au.movember.com/donate. The Centre's prostate cancer research programs receive major grant funding from Movember, and Movember's initiatives are changing the face of male health here in Australia and globally. Professor Gary Wittert, Director (banner photo: Dr Kootsy Canuto, Wardipinga Research Unit, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and the Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men's Health) Upcoming EventsMen's Health Research Seminar - Movember Thurs 29Join us at 12.10 – 1.30pm, Room 6052a/6052b, L6 AHMS Building Our speakers are: Research ImpactWhat health services work for Indigenous menProstate cancer drugs formidable potentialDespite lab evidence of their formidable potential, drugs targeting nucleic acids that control gene expression in prostate cancer may be a distant reality, View abstract The microenvironment of prostate cancerChanges in tumour micro-environment thought to hamper the efficacy of therapeutics, confirmed using prostate cancer patient derived explant (PDE) model. View abstract Measuring engagement in e-health technologyStudy makes recommendations for valid and reliable methods to better evaluate engagement with, and effectiveness of, e-health technology to advance the field. View abstract Integrating need for cognition into APPsNew PBK drug target for prostate cancerGlobal team identify a potential new drug target; the PBK enzyme that is associated with variants of the androgen receptor that drives agg-ressive prostate cancer.View abstract Predictors of prostate cancer metastasisCentre NewsFFCMH hosts session on masculinity and men's health - National Men's Health GatheringIn an invited session on "masculinity and men's health" at the 2018 National Men's Health Gathering, the Centre was honoured to have Professor John Macdonald and Zac Seidler join us to argue that the labels given that relate to masculinity and men's health behaviours are damaging and counterproductive in advancing men’s health. Summer Scholarship AwardeesThe Centre congratulates Neha Kasture, Ser Yee Ang, Ashley Merkin and Suraiya Onnesha on being awarded a 2018-19 FFCMH summer vacation scholarship, Read more Medvet grant to develop new blood testProf Lisa Butler and colleagues have received grant funding from Medvet to develop a new blood test for aggressive prostate cancer, Prostate Cancer Research Group newsletter PhD scholarship top-up to Mr Reza GhodskiReza was awarded a scholarship top-up from FFCMH to support his PhD on androgen receptor reprogramming for prostate cancer using 3D bioengineered models, Read more Final of Series 1: Men's Health Matters podcastIn the final of the first series of the Men's Health Matters, host Cameron Gyss talks to his friends Tom and Callum about young men's health. Studies RecruitingMen with prostate cancer to trial programStudy seeks men who have completed prostate cancer treatment to participate in a trial of an online structured physical activity program. Read more Latest from Andrology AustraliaSpring edition of The Healthy Male Newsletter featuring articles on male fertility and the vasectomy Pre-conception factsheet for Dads-to-be Latest report on "How men want to receive health information" Copyright © 2018 The University of Adelaide. |