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Appointment of Mary Herbert to Professorship of Reproductive ... (Monash University)

Professor Mary Herbert will join the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute at Monash University in February 2023. Professor Herbert's research combines ...

Professor John Carroll, Director of the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute commented, “Mary and the team from Newcastle University (UK) have led the world in pre-clinical and clinical research into mitochondrial donation. In March this year, the Australian Senate passed legislation, known as Maeve’s Law, to allow the introduction of Mitochondrial Donation in Australia. Professor Herbert’s research combines fundamental biology of oocytes and early embryos with clinical approaches to improve female reproductive outcomes, including for women at risk of transmitting mitochondrial DNA disease to their children.

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Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation (Monash University)

In recognition of their substantial contribution to research using targeted cell therapies to treat autoimmune diseases such as lupus and vasculitis, ...

We have an incredibly hard-working and passionate team that turned that lightbulb idea into a reality and I’m grateful to them and Monash University for the support provided,” said Associate Professor Ooi. “I am deeply honoured by the recognition of Veski and my peers that is embodied in being awarded the Victoria Prize. The amazing journey that Eric and I have been on started as an impromptu corridor conversation 5 years ago which led to a lightbulb moment and now this. He developed a novel process to genetically engineer immune cells to specifically switch off the misdirected autoimmune response in patients with autoimmune disease. He founded the Monash Lupus Clinic, Australia’s first multidisciplinary research-focussed clinic for lupus and this formed the foundation of the Australian Lupus Registry and the Asia Pacific Lupus Collaboration, now among the largest longitudinal cohorts of SLE patients ever assembled. In collaboration with Professor Morand, they have applied this technology to patients with lupus.

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Professor Michelle Leech inducted into Monash Honour Roll (Monash University)

Head of the Medical Course at Monash University and Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Professor Leech received her MBBS (Hons) ...

She is the Vice President of Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand, Board Chair of the Postgraduate Medical Council of Victoria and Chair of the Medication Safety and Therapeutics Committee at Monash Health. She has received a number of awards including the Australian Medical Students Association National Teaching award in 2014 and is a recipient of Health Workforce Australia funding to develop Health Science Interprofessional Learning (IPL) opportunities across disciplines at Monash University and Monash Health. She is the outgoing chair of the Clinical Examination Committee of the RACP National Exam Panel of the College of Physicians and was the Medical Director of Arthritis Australia in 2014 and continues as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee. Under her leadership, she has achieved extraordinary outcomes, including transforming the degree from a bachelor-level degree to now MD, ranked by graduates for the last two years as one of the leading medical schools in Australia. Her research interests include cytokine biology, glucocorticoid action and cell cycle proteins in the context of rheumatoid arthritis pathogenesis. After residency training in Internal Medicine at Prince Henry’s Hospital, Melbourne, she completed her advanced physician training at Monash Health.

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