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Meet our biomedicine students, world-class researchers and teaching talent, plus find out where our incredible graduates are now.
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We are passionate about training and mentoring the next generation of scientists. We offer PhD and MPhil degrees.
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Fostering collaboration between faculties, research fields and individual laboratories within the University of Melbourne and surrounding medical research institutes.
Welcome to the School of Biomedical Sciences
Together we are growing the next generation of biomedical scientists, doctors and health professionals right in the heart of the southern hemisphere’s largest biomedical precinct.
“This is an exciting time for biomedicine worldwide, and the School of Biomedical Sciences is at the forefront of teaching and research with an ultimate aim of advancing human health.”
– Professor Ian van Driel, Head of the School of Biomedical Sciences (Interim).
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The enemy within: Safeguarding against the spread of intracellular bacteria
Researchers from the School of Biomedical Sciences have identified the multiple, intertwined cell death systems that prevent the spread of the ‘intracellular’ bacterium Salmonella.
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Life Beyond Biomedicine. Where Will Your Degree Take You?
Join us for the SBS Careers Webinar on 18 August where our alumni panel will look at the current focus on Biomedical Science in society and our everyday lives.
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UK journal publishes Savant Thakur’s final work
The Company of Biologists Ltd shares the late PhD candidate’s important findings on muscle development and repair.
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E-meet a (Biomedical) Scientist 2020
From the lab to the classroom. Meet our experts talking all things biomedical sciences LIVE and ONLINE with high school students as part of National Science Week – 17 to 21 August 2020.
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MJ Gething: supporting research momentum in ECRs
Early Career Researcher, Dr Jaime Foong from the Dept of Physiology receives MJ Gething Award.
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Professor Jennifer Wilkinson-Berka new Head of School
On Monday 3 August, Professor Jennifer Wilkinson-Berka, a leading vascular biologist, will take the helm at the School of Biomedical Sciences.
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Eponyms – and renaming body parts
A/Prof Quentin Fogg from the Dept of Anatomy and Neuroscience discusses the push for changes to medical terms on 3AW Drive.
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Multi-million dollar grant for ARC Training Centre announced
A $4.7 Million grant towards a $13 million ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre (ITTC) has been announced on the 14th of July 2020.
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Australia has a flesh-eating-bacteria problem
Professor Tim Stinear has been featured in an article in The Atlantic about Victoria’s Buruli ulcer outbreak to discuss his work mapping the spread of the disease.
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Meet our 3MT® finalists in the 2020 Grand Final (13 Aug)
Congratulations to PhD candidates Marina Župan & Samantha Davis in the School of Biomedical Sciences who made the top ten in UOM's Three Minute Thesis competition!
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A remedy for false COVID-19 cures?
Dr Christopher Rudge and Professor Megan Munsie of the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience unpack the secondary threat to consumers that has emerged during the Coronavirus outbreak - unproven COVID-19 ‘treatments’.
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Remdesivir: Australia’s first approved COVID-19 treatment
Associate Professor Stuart Ralph appeared on an SBS World News report about the drug following its approval by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).