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Welcome to the Alfred Research Alliance news hub. To catch up on the news from our Alliance members, please click on the links below:

Around the Precinct – 13 May 2021

This week, our researchers provide updated data on COVID-19, it’s long-term effects and impact on new parents; we gain a fascinating insight into brain injury rehabilitation; complete a study on a Strep A vaccine; look at a common Winter danger and celebrate a patient’s efforts to support research into brain cancer. Welcome to this week… Read More

Around the Precinct – 6 May 2021

At the precinct this week, we’ve been celebrating anniversaries and appointments and have found out more about the safe application and positive benefits of some commonly-used drugs, and provided support to people experiencing family violence. Our researchers helped create a proper definition of menstrual health, contributed to the ongoing discussions around concussion in sport and,… Read More

Around the Precinct – 29 April 2021

This week at the Alfred Research Alliance, we look at sudden cardiac arrest and its cost to the community, focus on the fight against malaria in our region ahead of World Malaria Day, and launch two new initiatives – a website to support research into women’s health and the latest iteration of the ‘Sex, Drugs… Read More

Around the Precinct – 22 April 2021

As Winter weather arrives in Melbourne, our research has been helping to heal broken hearts, shed light on often overlooked fungal infections and improve the performance of stroke response teams. We look at how immunisation needs to be considered in the treatment of MS, explore new technology to test life-saving drugs in real time, report on the… Read More