Pre-eclampsia to bone health – research excellence represented at ESA-SRB

Mid-career researcher poster competition finalist Dr Fiona Cousins (right)
with fellow finalists Stella Liong (left, University of Melbourne)
and Laura Lindsay (middle, University of Sydney).

Dr Michael Mond

Hudson Institute scientists and students excelled at the combined 2017 Endocrine Society of Australia and Society of Reproductive Biology meeting, held in Perth in late August.

Three Hudson Institute clinician-scientists from the Centre for Endocrinology and Metabolism were presented with awards at the conference, recognising their excellence in endocrinology research.

Scientists from across our research centres gave invited talks, appeared on forum panels and chaired sessions. Our Honours, BMedSci and PhD students were also well-represented across all research areas.

• Dr Michael Mond took out the Bryan Hudson Clinical Award for the best clinical research presentation by an early-career ESA member for his presentation
  titled Development of a next generation sequencing platform for comprehensive somatic mutation testing in thyroid cancer. The award bestows a stipend of $3500 to be used in the advancement of clinical endocrine research.

• Dr Jimmy Shen was awarded the prestigious Servier Award which recognises the best scientific
  paper published in the preceding 12-month period. The award includes a stipend of $1000 and a 15-minute oral presentation. Dr Shen’s presentation was titled Cardiac tissue injury and remodelling is dependent upon MR regulation of activation pathways in cardiac tissue macrophages.

• Clinical Associate Professor Fran Milat was awarded the ESA Mid-Career Award which recognises an outstanding mid-career researcher in endocrinology. A/Prof Milat gave a 20-minute presentation titled Managing osteoporosis in underserved populations.

Other achievements include:

• Professor Caroline Gargett was made a Fellow of the Society of Reproductive Biology.
• Professor Vincent Harley was invited to give the SRB President’s Lecture titled How and why, SRY. He also gave a presentation in the ESA Clinical Symposium titled A link between gender identity and genes involved in sex hormone signalling.
• Professor Eva Dimitriadis was an invited symposium speaker and presented on the topic Targeting the placenta to treat preeclampsia.

For full details and presentations, please see: http://www.esa-srb.org.au/

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