Featured Research: Diabetes Obesity And Endocrinology
Melbourne Research Fellowship (Career Interruptions)
Life can sometimes get in the way of a science career: the joy, but also endless nappies, constant feeding and care of a baby in its first year of life, or the time and energy required to care for a partner recovering from a serious operation. Dr Siddall's advice to fellow researchers: "Hang in there!"
Research Collaboration Grants provide funding to stimulate and facilitate collaboration with external organisations. Grants of up to $20,000 will be available for one year. They require applicants to collaborate on their project with an external organisation with a view to submitting an ARC Linkage Project grant (or similar) application or engaging in some other form of collaboration within two years of receiving the award.
The objective of the Melbourne Research Fellowships (Career Interruptions) Program is to enable eligible researchers who are University of Melbourne staff to enhance or re-establish their academic research careers. Applications are invited from staff who do not have a continuing tenured research position whose careers have been severely interrupted, delayed or otherwise constrained by chronic illness, child bearing, child rearing or other caring duties. Applicants must have completed a PhD degree in their field at least three years prior to application.
It’s a struggle, indeed it’s a battle, but Oprah Winfrey, Kirstie Alley and our own MagdaSzubanski ‘won’ their weight loss battles...at least for a time. But, they did not ‘win’ the war, and each regained the weight they’d lost.
Researchers from the University of Melbourne and Austin Health have come one step closer to understanding how our bodies regulate fat and weight gain.
Dr Barbara Fam from the University’s Molecular Obesity Laboratory group at Austin Health with Associate Professor SofAndrikopoulos have discovered that the liver can directly talk to the brain to control the amount of food we eat.
The 2012 Young Tall Poppy Awards are now open for nominations.
The awards are designed to recognise those early career researchers who excel not only in their field of research but also in their capacity and willingness to communicate their work with the wider community.
Nominations are accepted from all fields of science and technology and are made in all states and territories.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Award for Research Excellence, now in its 32nd year, is one of the most prestigious awards available to the Australian research community. This annual Award, and the accompanying Grant of $80,000, recognises outstanding achievements in medical research and facilitates career development with potential importance to human health and Australian research.
Applications for the L’Oréal For Women In Science Fellowships will open on 1 April 2012. The three $25,000 Fellowships are intended to help early career women scientists to consolidate their careers and rise to leadership positions in science.
The Fellowships are awarded to women who have shown scientific excellence in their career to date and who have an appropriate research plan that will be assisted by the one-year Fellowship.
Dr Troy Merry, Department of Physiology Thesis title: 'The role of reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide in regulating skeletal muscle glucose uptake during contraction'
Exercise is good for you – right? If you have diabetes, it can actually be a way of reducing blood glucose levels without insulin. This is good news for those with diabetes, and during his PhD, Dr Troy Merry sought to elucidate the biochemical pathway that is responsible for this phenomenon.
