Advancing Women's Research Success Grant awarded to Centre scientist

We are thrilled to announce that Ritchie Centre scientist Dr Hayley Dickinson has been awarded one of the University's prestigious 2013 Advancing Women's Research Success grants.

This is a great achievement and well deserved. Hayley leads dynamic and innovative programs of research in making birth safer and in understanding the roles of the placenta in fetal growth.

Science is a hard career for anyone. It can be especially hard for women with young children.

This award recognises the importance of women in science and the need to continue to advance women in science.

At The Ritchie Centre we are enormously proud of all of our scientists but, perhaps, just a wee bit extra proud of our women who are caring for young families while still pushing back the frontiers.

Well done Hayley. We are very proud.

Euan Wallace
Director

Ritchie centre students at it again - Cerebral Palsy Alliance Best Abstract Awards

Two Ritchie Centre PhD students - Samantha Barton and James Aridas were awarded the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Best Abstract Awards at the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) conference dinner tonight. Pictured below with Professor Nadia Badawi (middle right) and Associate Professor Iona Novak (left) from the Cerebral Palsy Alliance.
Congratulations to Samantha and James.

Dr Nadine Brew awarded the David Henderson-Smart scholarship at PSANZ

In honour of the late David Henderson-Smart, a pioneer in perinatology, PSANZ president, Vicki Flenady today awarded the David Henderson-Smart scholarship to Dr Nadine Brew from the Ritchie Centre. This scholarship is focused on assisting early career researchers develop a research career in perinatal medicine - http://www.psanz.com.au/scholarships-awards/dhs
Nadine will present her research project entitled "Use of activated protein C to reduce brain injury in hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy" tomorrow afternoon.
Congratulations to Nadine on the award of this prestigious scholarship.

More Ritchie Centre Student Success - PSANZ 2013

5 Ritchie Centre students/post-docs have been awarded PSANZ Early career researcher travel awards:

James Aridas - PhD candidate

Samantha Barton - PhD candidate

Miranda Davies - Post-doc

Melinda Dolan - PhD candidate

Jacqueline Melville - PhD candidate

Congratulations to these students/post-doc on their success.

Watch this space for more updates from PSANZ 2013 in Adelaide

Ritchie Centre student success at Fetal and Neonatal Workshop in Barossa Valley

Students of the Ritchie Centre have shown their brilliance at the recent Fetal and Neonatal Workshop of Australia and New Zealand, winning 4 of the 8 prizes awarded at the meeting.

Stacey Ellery took out the best student presentation prize with her talk "Maternal Creatine Supplementation Protects the Neonatal Spiny Mouse Following Birth Asphyxia, but what are the Effects on the Mother?"

Domenic LaRosa took out the runner up best student presentation prize with his talk "Maternal dietary creatine supplementation prevents changes in diaphragm muscle function 1 month after asphyxia at birth?"

Melinda Dolan was the runner up for the most outstanding short oral and her presentation "Determining the role of glucocorticoids in inflammation-induced fetal lung maturation using glucocorticoid receptor knockout mice", was noted for having the most complicated experimental design!

Justin Lang won the best response to a question prize.

Congratulations to these students and all of the Ritchie Centre students who showcased the excellent research being conducted at the centre.