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The following Health and Medical Research Events are scheduled for 2010. Please contact the member organisation for further details.
The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing produces a National Calendar of Events which contains a list of major awareness days, weeks and months related to health and ageing. Click here for the 2010 Calendar.
CALENDER YEAR 2010
April
Wednesday 14 April 2010, 5.45 for 6pm - Free Public Lecture, Malaria: a global disease - control and eradication, Walter & Eliza Institute, Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.
Professor Alan Cowman, Dr James Beeson and Professor Sir Gustav Nossal will discuss the global impact malaria has on public health, the new treatments and vaccines that are being developed for this infectious disease and the likelihood of it being eradicated.
Professor Cowman is head of the institute’s Infection and Immunity division and Dr Beeson is a public health clinician and malaria researcher. Professor Nossal was director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute from 1965-1996 and is a consultant to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on its Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative.
Find out more and Register online or call 03 9345 2555
May
Industry & Investment NSW Eureka Prize for Outstanding Medical
Research Translation - Entries open
One of 19 prizes on offer in 2010, this Eureka Prize will focus on
projects that demonstrate clinical and translational excellence in the
medical research field - highlighting and encouraging best practice
bench to bedside research translation in Australian hospitals. $10,000
will be awarded for an outstanding, ground-breaking medical research
project with a clinical application, and may be awarded to an individual
or to a research team. Entries close midnight AEST 7 May. Prize details
and online entry forms can be found at: www.eureka.australianmuseum.net.au/eureka-prize/medical-research-translation.
16 - 18 May 2010 - 'The Lowy Symposium - Discovering Cancer Therapeutics' to be held at the John Niland Scientia Building (UNSW Kensington Campus) from 16 – 18 May 2010. Find out more
October
Tuesday 19 – Friday 22 October 2010, AusBiotech 2010 National Conference,
Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, Victoria, Australia
AusBiotech 2010, with its key theme 'Creating Global Solutions', will focus on the solutions that biotechnology is developing to deliver a brighter future. Whether it is in new therapies, diagnostics, medical devices, agricultural, industrial or climate change, biotechnology is at the heart of finding better options and answers to issues that we share around the globe. From the research laboratory, through the process of development and commercialisation, to the consumer, it's all about creating solutions. Registration available until 22 October 2010
(Early Bird Registration closes 30 June 2010). www.ausbiotech2010.com.au
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