Today, as we reflect on #ANZACDay , let us shine a light on the extraordinary life of Mavis Louisa Freeman – a true heroine of science and service.  

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Bird flu has spread to many states in the United States. A Texas dairy farm worker has tested positive for bird flu, a virus that has caused outbreaks in dairy cows in multiple states. #US
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Australia’s industry body for biotechnology, AusBiotech, has announced ex-Sanofi leader Rebekah Cassidy as its incoming Chief Executive Officer.

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Remembering Charles Darwin #OnThisDay , as he died today in 1882. 'There is grandeur in this view of life...from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.'

We're thrilled to have Associate Professor Jess Nithianantharajah as the new Head of the Florey Department at the University of Melbourne!

A/Prof Nithianantharajah is also Head of our Synapse Biology and Cognition Group, and a Research Co-Lead of The Florey’s Mental Health Mission.

Fantastic to see this The IMJ Editorial out today! Australian public funding via MBS Item Numbers has been broadly successful, particularly in the kidney space 😊

A/Prof Jodie Ingles Ilias Goranitis Prof Zornitza Stark Australian Genomics Kidney Health ANZSN

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#bmh2024 Indigenous Perspectives in Biomolecular Science features Plenary Speaker Misty Jenkins AO on novel immunotherapy targets for adult and paediatric brain cancer. Join us in Melbourne, 22-26th September, 2024 bmh2024.com ...the future is biomolecular.

I’m very honoured to be amongst these talented #WomenInSTEMM and #dementia researchers in the latest Dementia Australia Research Foundation impact report. Read about these innovators (and so many more!) making a difference with their work at
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Key Theme at Biomolecular Horizons 2024, Indigenous Perspectives in Biomolecular Science features plenary speaker, Misty Jenkins AO, on discovering novel immunotherapy targets for adult and paediatric brain cancer. Join us in Melbourne, 22-26 September 2024, #bmh2024 .

The Australian Academy of the Humanities has opened applications for publishing subsidies and travelling fellowships for #EMCRs conducting research overseas. All applications for the 2024 round are due 5 May 2024. Apply NOW and share widely!

Link: humanities.org.au/grants-and-awa…

Seaport Therapeutics has received US$100M in Series A round funding, supercharging its work to leverage the Glyph platform - invented by Monash University’s Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences researchers - to improve drug delivery for CNS conditions.

Read more 📖: mona.sh/FXcJ50RcNoB

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So wonderful these Pacific islands grant personhood to #whales . telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/0…

Indigenous leaders of New Zealand, Tonga, Tahiti and the Cook Islands have singed a treaty granting whales legal personhood
- by Julie Depenbrock
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The Australian Army now has three impressive women 3-star generals!

This was unthinkable when I joined the ADF and even 10 years ago.

While the other two services are a bit behind, we’re all moving in the right direction.

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