"This is not a wicked problem, this is something we can actually deal with." Patrick McGorry explains why today's publication of The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health is such a landmark moment. Access the Commission for free: bit.ly/4fMrLYa

📢6 days until AAMRI Rising Star Award applications close! If you are one of our many exceptional medical researchers in the early stage of your career, don't miss your chance to be named AAMRI’s 2024 Rising Star & receive an untied cash prize of $35,000. aamri.org.au/rising-star

Congratulations telethonkidsCC and Perth Children's Hospital! In what is one of WA’s biggest ever philanthropic donations, this investment will further world-leading medical research in kid's cancer care and treatments 💛 @telethonkids Jonathan Carapetis

Congrats to Dr Pam Laird, joint winner of Early Career Researcher of the Year at the 2024 Premier’s Science Awards! Her groundbreaking work on reducing chronic respiratory disease in Aboriginal children has saved over 1,000 little lungs. We also like to acknowledge Professor

ICYMI, check out this Kristy Mayr story about A/Prof Sara Baratchi & team's new #research (published in Nature Communications) into #shearstress, #arterialnarrowing & potential therapeutic targets for #cardiovasculardisease. #stroke @heartvalvedisease #NETosis #neutrophils

A first of its kind human trial based in Adelaide will investigate whether infant immune response to vaccines can be improved by giving probiotics to babies who’ve been treated with antibiotics in the first week of life. 👶 Read more ➡️ sahmri.au/Vaccine-Respon…

Wonderful news Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences! A valuable mentorship program for researchers to gain insight from experienced top leaders in their field. We're delighted, in particular, to see that two of the eight new mentees are from our member medical research institute telethonkids 👏

TRI is pleased to have welcomed Federal Minister for Science Ed Husic today. Thank you Microba Life Sciences and Life Sciences Queensland Ltd (LSQ) for contributions in showing how we support research translation/commercialisation. We also showed how we are building scale-up biomedical manufacturing capability.

Australia's largest health and medical research funding body has recommended sex, gender, variations of sex characteristics and sexual orientation be routinely considered in health and medical research. ab.co/478HVqD

This week marked AAMRI's fourth annual Fundraising and Philanthropy event - as always, a great chance for networking and to delve into fundraising challenges and opportunities across the entire medical research sector. Thanks to our hosts WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) & Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI)!

Researchers led by #MCRI have made a breakthrough into creating blood #stemcells that closely resemble those in the human body. And the discovery could soon lead to personalised treatments for children with #leukaemia and bone marrow failure disorders. 👉 direc.to/mfWk

In case you missed it: Aus Chief Scientist Dr Cathy Foley Australia's Chief Scientist issued recommendations to Gov for #OpenAccess to academic journals, which we welcome. Increasing access to research literature will unlock enormous benefits, research shows. Read: chiefscientist.gov.au/news-and-media…