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Saving young lives by the million – Melbourne researcher wins $50,000 CSL Florey Medal
Saving young lives by the million
Professor Ruth Bishop, 2013 CSL Florey Medallist
By their third birthday, just about every child in the world has had a rotavirus infection. Every day about 1200 children die from it; half a million children every year. That’s changing. We’re fighting back thanks to a discovery made in 1973 by a quiet Melbourne researcher—this year’s winner of the 2013 CSL Florey Medal.
That was when Ruth Bishop, Brian Ruck, Geoffrey Davidson and Ian Holmes at the Royal Children’s Hospital and the University of Melbourne’s microbiology department found a virus, now known as rotavirus. Until the middle of the last decade, it put about 10,000 Australian children in hospital each year with acute gastroenteritis. In the next decade, as a direct result of their research, millions of young lives will be saved.
Saving young lives by the million wins national honour for Ruth Bishop
Presentation 8.30pm, Wednesday 30 October, in the Mural Hall, Parliament House, Canberra
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Saving young lives by the million wins national honour for Ruth Bishop
Because of the rotavirus Ruth Bishop found in Melbourne babies in 1973:
- 10,000 Australian kids won’t go to hospital this year
- half a million young lives could be saved every year as the Gates Foundation and GAVI roll out rotavirus vaccines to the world’s poorest 30 countries by 2015
- a new Australian rotavirus vaccine is being trialled in New Zealand and Indonesia.
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Celebrating Australia’s best at the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science
Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science: Wednesday 30 October, Canberra
Later this month, the Prime Minister will announce the winners of the 2013 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science at a formal dinner in the Great Hall of Parliament House, Canberra.
We’re helping again with the media program for the prizes, and we’ll have profiles, print-quality photos and broadcast-quality footage available for journalists.
If you need to know who’s winning this year drop me a line on niall@scienceinpublic.com.au. We welcome the opportunity to brief longer lead-time programs and publications.
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RIKEN and JSPS visits, sharing coral genomes, grants for Europe visits: EMBL Australia in October
In this month’s newsletter:
- EMBL Australia’s Japan month – delegates coming to Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney
- Sharing Great Barrier Reef coral genomes with the world
- How do neurones make decisions?
- Applications open for PhD travel grants to EMBL in 2014
- Hiro Ueda – Using synthetic biology to understand life
- Events and meetings around the country
- Upcoming events and deadlines
- About EMBL Australia
Building on mud: when can we start?
A Queensland engineer can now predict how long it takes for reclaimed land to become suitable for development, potentially saving millions of dollars in building costs.
Dr Julie Lovisa from James Cook University is using maths to determine when dredged soil is solid enough to build on.
Seeking creative early career scientists
Applications are now open for the $25,000 Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize for early-career biomedical researchers.
We’re looking for early-career scientists in biomedical research with a uniquely creative way of significantly contributing to their chosen field. [Read more…] about Seeking creative early career scientists
Monitoring drugs at home, not the hospital
A tiny Tasmanian invention that could make personalized medication easy and affordable.
Millions of people should have their blood tested each day to check the level of prescription drug in their blood.
Some drugs are only effective within a very narrow range. Too little and the drug is ineffective, too much and the drug could be deadly.
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Calling all women in physics – are you the next Prof Brian Cox?
Work with Emmy-award winning documentary maker Sonya Pemberton
The team at Genepool are looking for a female physicist to host their next international documentary series.
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Partnering with Japan, understanding pathogens and more travel grants for students: EMBL Australia in September
In this month’s EMBL Australia newsletter:
- EMBL Australia’s Japan Month
- Understanding Pathogens: A Systems Biology Approach
- Mike Hucka on how to succeed with open source computing
- From development to regeneration: meet EMBL Australia at ComBio 2013
- International researchers to teach sequence analysis master class in Sydney
- Helping Australian PhD students get to Europe
- Upcoming events and deadlines
- About EMBL Australia