We're delighted to announce the finalists for the Tasmanian ASMR Medical Research Week® Awards! The winner will be announced at the ASMR Medical Research Week® Tasmanian Virtual Symposium on 11 June facebook.com/events/8993273… Meet the finalists + find out what they'll present 👇

Yasmine Doust Dr Yasmine Doust of WickingDementiaCentre University of Tasmania will present their talk titled: Recovery after a concussion; if in doubt sit them out.

Laura Sutton of University of Tasmania is a finalist

Catherine Foster Catherine Foster of University of Tasmania @TasSchoolMed will present their talk titled: Do immune cells in the brain interact with blood vessels?

Dr Zhen Zhou of University of Tasmania is a finalist

Hannah Fair Hannah Fair of University of Tasmania will present their talk titled: Telling people to keep their bodies and brains active

To mark #WorldMSDay we are hosting a forum today called #ResearchwithConnections to share our work with people living with MS and the wider community. Over 100 people in attendance and a fascinating program

🚨 New Paper out now in RACGP exploring #trans #healthcare in #Tasmania! @anthonykjsmith @babybumpproject Lyndsay Newett UTAS Medical Sciences #RichardTurner #LouiseOwen & I note need for further development in this space in Tassie. University of Tasmania Open access at: www1.racgp.org.au/ajgp/2021/june…

TSoM Public Health Thank you so much TSoM Public Health - I am very fortunate to have benefited from inspiring teaching in #pathology I received as a medical undergraduate University of Tasmania UTAS Medical Sciences

The RM Johnston Medal is awarded by the Royal Socety of Tasmania to acknowledge mid-career scholars of great distinction in any field. Nominations are open until 31 August 2021. Read more here: rst.org.au/mr-banks-medal/

August is Science Month at TMAG and this week we’re kicking things off in style with the 2021 Beaker Street Festival! Join us from 6-8 August for a great program, find out more and book here: beakerstreet.com.au/tmag-hub/

Wonderful news and, as Jamie said, well deserved! Congratulations to all!

🧬🚨Learn more about multiple sclerosis with Understanding MS, a FREE online course for everyone. Enrolments for September are now open, so sign up or find out more here: ms.mooc.utas.edu.au 🚨🧬

Want to watch me spend 10 minutes destroying your faith in science using only memes? Livestream tonight's Science in the Pub talk! 🍺

Now available open access 👀 @ABindoff found participating in later life university study had a sustained positive impact on cognitive trajectories over 7 years, read the full pub here: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tr… 👀 Prof Jane Alty James Vickers WickingDementiaCentre University of Tasmania

One of our excellent academics, NeuroBill - neurobill.bsky.social, has published his first paper since establishing his new lab & working with one of our terrific MBBS students Vivian Imbriotis. They've developed a low-cost system to display visual stimuli for visual neuroscience experiments.

PhD candidate Nina Daniels recently gave a 3 minute thesis talk titled “Understanding axon pathology in ageing and disease”. Nina has been researching how axonal pathology develops inside the brain in order to understand the changes that occur in dementia. Well done Nina!

We're thrilled to be part of the more than $5.5 million awarded to University of Tasmania for 14 new research projects – 11 of which are led by women. These are from the Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects round. Australian Research Council utas.edu.au/communications…

Stoked to share news of my first CIA grant! A privilege to present the project at the grants launch & I can't wait to get stuck in with an awesome team to improve CVD prevention by connecting acute and primary care via chest pain clinics. @HBPRCA ACvA That's What I Call Science 🎙 University of Tasmania

New research from a PhD student of one of our academic researchers, Associate Professor Guna Karupiah: Targeting ectromelia virus and TNF/NF-κB or STAT3 signaling for effective treatment of viral pneumonia pnas.org/content/119/8/…