Archive of Bosch Institute news in 2006
2006: Mar | Apr | May | Jun |Jul |Oct |Nov |Dec
Minister visits Bosch
The Federal Minister for Aging made a brief visit to the Bosch Institute on Tuesday 12 December 2006.
Congratulations to Rebecca Mason on her promotion to Professor.
The Bosch Young Investigators Symposium held on Friday 15 December 2006 was heralded "A great success" by Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research, Professor Merlin Crossley. (See press release for further details - PDF)
Dr Karen Cullen was successful in having her ideas on amyloid at the blood vessel wall and its relationship to Alzheimer disease published in the July 2006 edition of Nature Medicine (PDF).
Congratulations to the following Bosch Institute members who were successful in obtaining funding from the Australian Research Council Discovery Scheme for 2007:
- Maria Byrne
- David Cook
- Georges Grau
- Des Richardson
Congratulations to Professor Brian Morris of the School of Medical Sciences on being awarded the Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision.
Congratulations to members of the Bosch Institute who have been successful with National Health and Medical Research Council applications recently announced.
Research Fellowship renewals:
- Associate Professor Paul Pilowsky
- Professor Des Richardson
New Project Grants:
- Associate Professor Tailoi Chan-Ling
- Professor Bogdan Dreher
- Dr Michelle Gerke
- Dr Anne Goodchild
- Professor Georges Grau
- Dr Kevin Keay
- Professor Nicholas King
- Dr Frank Lovicu
- Associate Professor Paul Pilowsky
- Professor Des Richardson
- Dr Samuel Solomon
- Associate Professor Stephen Twigg
- Associate Professor Robert Vandenberg
Sincere congratulations for their success in what was, as usual, a very competitive round for Project Grants and Fellowships.
On the 9th October Associate Professor Tailoi Chan-Ling, of the Discipline of Anatomy and Histology, gave an interview to The Health Report on retinopathy of prematurity on ABC Radio National.
Dr Chan-Ling also had success in obtaining a large International Sciences Linkages grant of $206K from the Department of Education Science and Training, for her project "Maximising repair functions of hematopoietic stem cells in stemming vision loss".
Professor Nick Hunt gave a Keynote address at the 11th meeting of the International Study Group for Tryptophan Research in Tokyo, Japan
Professor Nick Hunt gave a presentation at the 6th COSTAM / SFRR International Workshop on Micronutrients, oxidative stress and the environment in Kuching, Malaysian Borneo
Professor Nick Hunt, Executive Director of the Bosch Institute, gave a Plenary lecture at the 7th International Symposium on Neurovirology in Philadelphia.
A new way of looking at Alzheimer's Disease?
Dr Karen Cullen of the Bosch Institute and Professor Jonathon Stone of the Australian National University have proposed that Alzheimer's Disease is related to cumulative damage to the fine blood vessels in the brain. This theory has support not only from their detailed neurohistopathological studies, but also through the similarity in risk factors for Alzheimer's Disease and cardiovascular disease.
This gives a message of hope in that people can attempt to reduce their risk of Alzheimer's Disease through some common sense measures.
An interesting article about the work of Drs Cullen and Stone
appeared in the Australian Financial Review on Thursday 18 May, page 59.
Bosch incorporated!
The Bosch Institute incorporation became final on 20 April. This allows the Institute to commence its operations officially. The Institute for Biomedical Research will soon be wound up as its functions have been absorbed by the new Institute.
Board meets
The first meeting of the Board took place on April 24 with most members in attendance. Among several items of business the Board approved the design for the logo and appointed Professor Nick Hunt as Executive Director.
Bosch Institute website goes live
The all-new website went live on May 1. Our thanks go to those who worked long and hard on this major task, in particular Vicki Taylor, Joe Pridham, Dane King, Stephen Matulewicz and Louise Wisser.
New recruits
In 2005 a number of researchers joined the nascent Bosch Institute: Dennis Yue, Stephen Twigg, Qihan Dong and their colleagues from RPAH Endocrinology; Richmond Jeremy, Ron Trent and Soon Lee, also with RPAH connections; Doug Joshua, John Gibson, Graham Young, Harry Iland and Joy Ho from RPAH Haematology; Richard Allen, Steve Chadban, Alexandra Sharland and Alex Bishop from the Collaborative Transplant Group at RPAH; Juergen Reichardt of the School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney.
In 2006, other outstanding researchers have come on board: Georges Grau, Des Richardson and Roland Stocker.
Welcome to all of them – existing Institute staff look forward to fruitful research collaborations with them.
Professor David Allen of the Bosch Institute (pictured left) was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in March 2006. This is a great honour and a worthy recognition of his enormous contribution to research into muscle function.
Two other Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science are associated with the Bosch Institute: Professors David Cook and Maxwell Bennett.
