Three researchers from the SAHMRI community have been successful in the latest round of highly prestigious Investigator grants from the @NHMRC. 🙌

Congratulations to A/Prof Yvonne Clark, Dr Jacqueline Gould and Dr Hannah Wardill.

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Our latest podcast guest is our Vascular Research Centre Co-Director and 2024 BRIGHT Accelerator, A/Prof Christina Bursill. ✨

Her career is dedicated to the detection, prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.

Full podcast 🎧 sahmri.au/Podcast-Christ…

A team of Adelaide and US researchers has discovered a link between a less common form of rheumatoid arthritis and gene mutations found in blood cancer. 🩸

The study was recently published in Blood Journal.

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Congratulations Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) Associate Director, Prof Gill Caughey on being inducted as a Fellow of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology. 🏆

Prof Caughey has been recognised for her exceptional leadership and is the only Australian inductee for 2024.

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Our Women and Kids Theme Leader, Prof Alice Rumbold was recently featured by Bench Side Story.

Prof Rumbold is currently focusing on interventions to improve breastfeeding outcomes in preterm babies.

Learn more about her story below. ⬇️

We're on the hunt for new talent to join our team!

Vacancies:
🧑‍💻 Clinical Trials Manager
🥼 Research Assistant/Project Officer
💰 Financial Planning & Reporting Analyst
📝 Business Support Officer
🧬 Next Generation Sequencing Specialist

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Really cool new paper demonstrating a tool from talented cell biologist Dr Sanjna Singh for measuring uptake and lysosomal processing of dead cells - important for inflammatory diseases like dementias and heart disease SAHMRI

Recent progress of a world-first chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (CMML) trial has spurred the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in the United States to put South Australian researchers in the driver’s seat to lead the future of CMML research. 🩸

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Congratulations to A/Prof Tasha Stanton, Leader of our Persistent Pain Research Group! 🏆

Prof Stanton was recognised by the Australian Council of Graduate Research for Excellence in Research Supervision. UniSA IIMPACT in Health #ACGR2024

Dom Scoleri lives with multiple myeloma, known to have the poorest quality of life of all cancers. 🩸

Despite this, there is a lack of accessible mental health services for people with myeloma, which inspired Dom's idea to build a wellbeing program.

📰 sahmri.au/MyWell-Story

Last week many of our Women and Kids ACRA team presented at the Annual Congress of the Perinatal Society of Australia & New Zealand in Christchurch, NZ, which brings together multidisciplinary researchers working to improve outcomes for mothers and babies. 👶

Join the team at SAHMRI!

Current vacancies:
📝 Business Support Officer
💰 Financial Planning & Reporting Analyst
🧑‍💻 Clinical Trials Manager
🥼 Research Assistant/Project Officer
💻 SAGC Internship

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A unique wellbeing program created in South Australia has shown promise as a method to improve the mental health of women living with and beyond breast cancer. 🩷

More than 2.3 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer worldwide each year.

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New research from SAHMRI's @ROSA_project and led by Steph Harrison has revealed senior people receiving home care packages spend more than twice the amount of days in hospital, compared to those living in residential aged care. 🏡

Full story ➡️ sahmri.au/Aged-Care-Hosp…

New research has shown a diet high in ultra-processed foods significantly increases the risk of death from chronic respiratory diseases. 🍭

The study was led by PhD Candidate Tefera Mekonnen and published in the European Journal of Nutrition.

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This book teaches children vital foot care knowledge to help address growing issue of preventable foot amputations caused by #diabetes . The research was provided by SAHMRI Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Equity Theme: 🔗 bit.ly/3TL9oIE

Ozempic has taken the world by storm as a weight loss medication prescribed for diabetes and used to combat obesity. 🩺

A/Prof Peter Psaltis joined ABC Afternoons to discuss how the drug might factor into the future of heart health.

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The Lions Club of Gawler visited SAHMRI today to present a $15,000 cheque for cancer research. 🔬

This donation is in memory of former Lion Garry Hoppo who passed away from lung cancer and wanted to leave a bequest to research.

Do your bit ➡️ sahmri.au/donate

Looking for a change of scenery? Join the team at SAHMRI!

Vacancies:
📦 Infrastructure Support Officer
👨‍💻 Project Officer/Administration
🧬 Next Generation Sequencing Specialist
💻 SAGC Internship
🧮 Biostatistician, Registry Science

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Key barriers to policy-research partnerships include limited budgets, structures and systems to encourage collaboration, this study involving experts from both fields reveals. Uni of Adelaide Health Translation SA SAHMRI

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