Enjoyed end of year celebrations with this fantastic team who played a crucial role in our 2023 grant success. Looking forward to what 2024 holds.

I work in Melbourne's West. Where my patients (who are mostly poor, and often have complicated pregnancies) are denied contraception every week by the local Catholic public hospital. In 2023.

”In the lab, COVID is a Level 3 biohazard. In schools, it's no big deal. I don't think you can reconcile those two statements”. ~Colin Furness, infection control epidemiologist We aren’t protecting kids enough. #COVID HT Sass cbc.ca/news/canada/ne…

I wrote down my rules on how to Science. I hope you find it useful!

Four years into the COVID pandemic we're living in a "public health Barbieland", says Professor Brendan Crabb, director and chief executive of the Burnet Institute. Too many of us are playing "make-believe" that life has returned to "normal" ab.co/42aI9LE

Australia being ‘left behind’ as federal research and development funding sinks to 30-year low theguardian.com/business/2024/…

The latest from MRC Prion Unit at UCL Institute of Prion Diseases published today in Nature Medicine👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 nature.com/articles/s4159… We describe a new type of Alzheimer’s disease – iatrogenic Alzheimer’s disease – occurring after treatment with cadaveric human growth hormone many decades earlier Thread 🧵 1/10

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Thrilled to share our perspective article on the involvement of Gram-negative bacterial vesicles in inflammation in Parkinson’s disease. Tiana Koukoulis, Beauchamp, Maria Kaparakis-Liaskos, McQuade, Purnianto, Finkelstein, Barnham. #gutbrain The Florey University of Melbourne content.iospress.com/articles/journ…

Replace the buttons with pipettes and we harnessed casinos for high throughput screening

Reinfection increases the risk of serious outcomes, including in kids. Given what we now know about COVID's long-term health impacts, schools need to minimise the risk of COVID spreading - for the sake of kids, teachers, their families and the wider community. Prof Brendan Crabb

COVID Safety For Schools A very useful summary paper on LC in children. publications.aap.org/pediatrics/art…

"...and then after 4 years - it didn't have a phenotype!!!!"

After #ISEV2024 there are more EV conferences to come! We are very grateful and excited about the fantastic line-up of speakers at The Gordon Research Conference #GRC on #ExtracellularVesicles (July 28-Aug 2 2024, Maine). Check the program! Apply to join! shorturl.at/ghiw1

The Florey, University of Melbourne EV lab at @ISEV2024 1 expert talk, 5 posters and 1 scholarship. What a privilege to work with this awesome bunch of young scientists Huaqi Kate Su Adityas Purnianto The Florey UniMelb MDHS

Missing the EVs in neurodegeneration meeting in QLD #EViND today. Enjoy the meeting everyone. Kenneth W Witwer (he/him) Andy Hill Jason Howitt Tsuneya Ikezu Juergen Goetz Joy Wolfram, PhD @juancarlospolanco #ISEV2024

Okay friends. It’s rare that I ask for anything but can you please RT this far and wide. It’s for the kids’ cancer charity I run. We very much need support for the physiotherapy sessions we provide across Australia. 🙏

New data show COVID-19 caused about 15% of all pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. in 2020. Learn more here: cdc.gov/maternal-morta…

#ChemistWarehouse owns Wagner Health. Now they change their in house generic prescription meds to- you guessed it Wagner- where’s the competition? Now with the Sigma merger what’s next in affordable generics and choice? The transparency? ACCC TGA Australia