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Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute

Around the Precinct – 21 October 2021

This week is Alfred Health Week, an annual celebration of all the pioneering research that happens across our eight member organisations. Read on to find out more about this year’s award winners, and get to know some of our researchers in our first ever Video Showcase.  Today also marks the final day of Melbourne’s sixth… Read More

Congratulations to winners of inaugural Scientific Abstract Competition

Congratulations to winners of inaugural Scientific Abstract Competition

Each year during Alfred Health Week, a series of prizes are awarded to recognise the excellent research undertaken on the precinct during the previous 12 months. This year, in the absence of the usual poster display in the corridors of The Alfred, prizes were based on abstracts submitted in our inaugural Scientific Abstract Competition. Thank you… Read More

2021 Alfred Research Alliance publication prize winners announced

2021 Alfred Research Alliance publication prize winners announced

The winners of this year’s Alfred Research Alliance publication prizes were announced at today’s Alfred Health Week keynote address, with prizes going to two researchers from Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute and one researcher from Monash University’s Central Clinical School. The Alfred Research Alliance Prizes for Basic Research and Clinical/Public Health Research are awarded annually… Read More

Alfred Health XVIVO

Around the Precinct – 14 October 2021

A new trial offers hope for heart transplant patients, with cardiac specialists at Alfred Health using a new method known as ‘hypothermic ex-vivo perfusion’ that could potentially double the amount of time donor hearts remain viable for transplantation. Elsewhere, forensic scientists from Monash’s School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine are using a new technology… Read More