Friday 21 June 2013

Dean's Award for Research Excellence to Centre scientist

Congratulations to Dr Hayley Dickinson, Ritchie Centre scientist, for being awarded the 2013 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research (Early Career Researcher).

Hayley's work is a regular feature of this blog. She is focussed on developing therapies to protect the developing fetus during labour and birth and on unravelling the mysteries of the placenta and its role(s) in maintaining healthy fetal development.

The Dean's Award is an outstanding recognition of the quality of Hayley's research and of the promise her work has for future Australian families.

We are very proud of Dr Dickinson. Well done.


Euan Wallace
Director, The Ritchie Centre

Monday 17 June 2013

Dr Claudia Nold - AWRS grant recipient

The Ritchie Centre is delighted to announce that Dr Claudia Nold was also awarded a Monash University Advancing Women's Research Success grant.
Only 22 awards were made University wide and TRC was awarded two.
This is an extraordinary achievement and highlights the exceptionally high standard of researcher we have here at the centre; many of whom are balancing family commitments with their successful research careers.

Congratulations to Claudia and Hayley on these awards and keep up the great work.


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Monday 10 June 2013

Order of Australia - Prof. Euan Wallace

We are delighted to advise that our very own Prof. Euan Wallace has been awarded a prestigious Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.


 The Citation reads as follows:
MEMBER (AM) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA

Professor Euan Morrison WALLACE, Sandringham Vic 3191
For significant service to medicine, particularly in the areas of obstetrics and gynaecology.

The Order of Australia is an "order of chivalry" bestowed by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, to recognise Australian citizens for achievement or meritous service.
In the Australian honours system, appointments to the Order of Australia confer recognition for outstanding achievement and service.

The Ritchie Centre offers its sincere congratulations to Euan, and his family, on receipt of this most deserving and appropriate honour.

Saturday 8 June 2013

Ritchie Centre Scientists Awarded $2M from NIH for baby research

We are delighted to announce that Ritchie Centre senior scientists Professor Stuart Hooper and Dr Graeme Polglase and their team have been awarded a highly prestigious National Institutes for Health (NIH) grant for their research into how a fetus transitions into a baby at the time birth.  

Everyone of us has done it - changed from a fetus to a newborn baby - and yet, amazingly, our understanding of how each of us navigate this "transition" remains limited.

This world leading research, led by Stuart and Graeme, using state-of-the-art imaging afforded by the Synchrotron, seeks to answer the most fundamental unknowns about this critical journey that each of us make.  Why is this work so important?

Most babies "transition" with remarkable ease but many, particularly those born very premature, do not and need help to survive.  Unfortunately, this "help" often causes harm, harm that can lead to life-long disability, including brain injury resulting in cerebral palsy.

Stuart and his team know that if we better understand the physiology of transition it will be possible to improve how we resuscitate these most fragile of babies at their most vulnerable time.

This work, funded by the US NIH, is set to change the care of newborn babies in Birth Suites worldwide.

Well done team. We are very proud of your work and countless babies will be all the better for it.

#onlyacurewilldo #savingbabieslives #ausynch

Euan Wallace
Director