MIME News - Wednesday 29 June
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2016 MIME Seed Fund - Phase 2 Deadline Extended to 1st August
Phase 2 of the 2016 MIME Seed Fund is now open. We invite all Monash researchers to peruse the clinical opportunities put forward in phase 1 to identify how your research expertise could potentially contribute to solving a major clinical need. The range of research expertise needed is very broad – such as biomaterials, microfluidics, sensors, mechatronics, wearable technologies, image analysis, data mining, industrial design, CFD, biomarkers and bioinformatics, nanotechnology, decision support and app development.
For those topics where you have relevant expertise and are interested in being part of the solution team, please contact the clinician researcher to discuss the area further. Contact details for each clinician are available on the MIME website within each phase 1 application http://monash.edu/mime/funding/phase-1/.
As many of the clinical needs will require a multidisciplinary team to solve the challenge, MIME is able to assist in arranging workshops or brainstorming sessions for potential team members. Please contact MIME's Executive Officer, Susan Newland susan.newland@monash.edu.
When your team has formulated a proposed R&D program that addresses the clinical challenge, the lead researcher should submit a phase 2 application for MIME seed funding. This form is available to download from the MIME website http://monash.edu/mime/funding/about-mime-seed-fund.html.
Up to $50,000 may be requested per project area, to deliver a meaningful outcome within 12-18 months. An additional $50,000 maybe requested if your research team includes one or more CSIRO collaborators.
Phase 2 applications must be submitted to Susan Newland, susan.newland@monash.edu by Monday, 1 August. Any Monash staff member may submit the application or be part of the team, but the team must include the initiating clinician researcher, and a researcher from either Faculty of Engineering or Faculty of IT. In phase 2, only submissions directly responding to a clinical opportunity put forward in phase 1 are eligible for MIME seed funding.
MIME Medtech Industry Innovators Day
The event was part of MIME's series of forums to bring together clinicians, researchers and industry leaders at the forefront of medtech product innovation to explore new opportunities for collaboration. The event featured a plenary session showcasing presentations from industry leaders who are driving growth of the medtech sector and improved patient outcomes through innovation. Plenary presenters and their topics included:
- Sue MacLeman, MTPConnect – Growth through innovation and collaboration
- Paul D’Urso, Anatomics – 3D Printing revolution in Healthcare
- George Margelis, Intel – Digital health
- Kathy Connell, J&J New ventures – Innovation models
- Susi Tegen, Medical Technologies Association of Australia - An update from MTAA
- Wearables, sensors & monitoring
- Biomaterials & regen med
- Digital health & design
- Surgical simulation & training, 3D printed devices, robotics
- Neuro devices & bionics
- Diagnostics
- Tim Staker, Cabrini Technologies – Integrating healthcare
- David Rhodes, Admedus – New materials for regenerative medicine
- Derek Minihane, Cochlear – Building an innovative culture
- Sam Lanyon, Planet Innovation – Make it real: beyond R&D to product development
- Elpis Barons, Trajan Scientific and Medical – Trajan Accelerator
In addition to our industry and clinical champions the seminar sessions also featured presentations from MIME researchers at the forefront of research and new technologies that will underpin the next generation of medical technologies.
Over lunch attendees had the opportunity to view posters on display from our PhD students and ECR and network with the students and other participants.
The afternoon saw the group reconvene for a panel Q&A session on funding schemes that support collaborative medtech projects. The day ended with the opportunity for attendees to participate in a range of platform and facility tours at the University in key areas of the medtech sector.
Many participants also stayed on for networking drinks in the evening at the AusBiotech BioBeer and Bubbles event, which was co-hosted with Monash Innovation.
The day was action packed and was an amazing success. We received wonderful feedback from all involved and look forward to planning our next industry innovators day. If you would like to attend or present at our next event, please let us know.
Congratulations to our PhD and ECR Poster Winners
We extend our congratulations to our successful applicants Jessica Lyndon and Ramya Chandrasekaran. Further details regarding their posters are outlined below.
Jessica Lyndon from Materials Science and Engineering with a poster in the area of temporary magnesium orthopaedic implants and their application as drug delivery devices.
Ramya Chandrasekaran from the Department of Chemical Engineering with a poster in the area of DNA Aptamer targeted Gold nanorods for image guided photothermal therapy: In vitro and In vivo studies.
We look forward to receiving both Jessica and Ramya's report after their travel.
We received a large number of applications for the poster program as part of the MIME Medtech Industry Innovators Day held on Thursday, 23 June. The prize for the poster program was a $2,500 MIME Travel Grant. The poster program was open to PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and early career researchers working on projects that involve medical technologies. Attendees at the MIME Medtech Industry Innovators Day from industry, government, our partner hospitals and Monash were able to peruse the posters throughout the day with a specific time set aside during their lunch break from 12.15pm - 1.00pm for students to man their posters and be available for a Q&A session to provide further details on their posters to attendees.
Posters were judged on the following criteria:
- Potential for impact - does the research have the potential to lead to high impact outcomes?
- Quality of the science - does the poster contain high quality science?
- Presentation - how effectively does the poster convey the key information?
- Communication - how engaged is the student with the audience during the presentation period?
Two prizes were awarded as part of the competition valued at $2,500 to be used to cover costs of items such as international conference attendance, visits to key groups for further learning, career development to establish networks or collaborations with high profile international research groups.
2016 Victorian BioMed Honours & PhD Expo - Attract New Students!
The 2016 Victorian Honours & PhD Expo Hosted by UROP@BioMedVic is scheduled for Friday, 22 July from 4.00pm - 6.00pm at the Melbourne Exhibition & Convention Centre. MIME has secured a booth at this event. The event is designed to showcase opportunities for Honours and PhD projects for 2017 and hence is an excellent opportunity for supervisors to attract new students. All MIME researchers are welcome to join the MIME booth or supply us with a one page flyer to hand out to potential students on the day and one slide to include as part of our rolling slide presentation. We strongly encourage MIME funded PhD scholarship teams who have not yet secured a suitable applicant for their project to participate in this event. Please contact MIME's Executive Officer, Susan Newland susan.newland@monash.edu if you would like to participate in this event as a MIME affiliate.
Funding Opportunities - Diabetes and International Research Scholarship Program
Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Research Network's Innovation Award
JDRF is pleased to announce that the Australian Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Research Network’s Innovation Award is open for applications.
Innovation Award
Innovation Award
This Request for Applications (RFA) for the Innovation Award is open to the best and brightest researchers with innovative ideas that have the potential to improve the lives of people with type 1 diabetes, regardless of whether you are currently in the field of type 1 diabetes research or completely external to it. We are seeking innovative proposals describing cutting-edge innovation falling outside current type 1 diabetes research paradigms supported by collaborative teams.
This award provides project funding of up to $1.5M for a period of two to three years.
Apply
This first round of application is open to Letters of Intent (LOI) and will be reviewed by an independent panel of experts. Only shortlisted applicants will be invited to apply for full submission.
Please reference the RFA for more information.
This award provides project funding of up to $1.5M for a period of two to three years.
Apply
This first round of application is open to Letters of Intent (LOI) and will be reviewed by an independent panel of experts. Only shortlisted applicants will be invited to apply for full submission.
Please reference the RFA for more information.
Applications must be submitted via RMS360, our online grants management system. For information on how to register on RMS360 and complete the online application, please refer to our User Guide. Please do not use Internet Explorer – only use Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox when accessing RMS360.
Important dates and deadlines
| LOI application opens LOI application deadline Invitation to full submission Full submission deadline** Interviews Notification to applicants | 15 April 2016 22 July 2016 - 17:00 AEST 31 August 2016 26 October 2016 - 17:00 AEDT 6-7 December 2016 January 2017 |
**Applicants must note that the Research Office of each Administering Organisation is required to certify to JDRF all “full submission” applications in RMS360 and may have an internal closing time which precedes this deadline. International Research Scholars Program | |
MIME News - Thursday 9 June
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2016 MIME Seed Fund - Phase 2 Now Open
Phase 2 is now open – we invite all Monash researchers to peruse the clinical opportunities put forward in phase 1 to identify how your research expertise could potentially contribute to solving a major clinical need. The range of research expertise needed is also very broad – such as biomaterials, microfluidics, sensors, mechatronics, wearable technologies, image analysis, data mining, industrial design, CFD, biomarkers and bioinformatics, nanotechnology, decision support and app development.
For those topics where you have relevant expertise and are interested in being part of the solution team, please contact the clinician researcher to discuss the area further. Contact details for each clinician are available on the MIME website within each phase 1 application http://monash.edu/mime/funding/phase-1/.
As many of the clinical needs will require a multidisciplinary team to solve the challenge, MIME is able to assist in arranging workshops or brainstorming sessions for potential team members. Please contact MIME's Executive Officer, Susan Newland susan.newland@monash.edu.
When your team has formulated a proposed R&D program that addresses the clinical challenge, the lead researcher should submit a phase 2 application for MIME seed funding. This form is available to download from the MIME website http://monash.edu/mime/funding/about-mime-seed-fund.html.
Up to $50,000 may be requested per project area, to deliver a meaningful outcome within 12-18 months. An additional $50,000 maybe requested if your research team includes one or more CSIRO collaborators.
Phase 2 applications must be submitted to Susan Newland, susan.newland@monash.edu by Wednesday, 6 July. Any Monash staff member may submit the application or be part of the team, but the team must include the initiating clinician researcher, and a researcher from either Faculty of Engineering or Faculty of IT. In phase 2, only submissions directly responding to a clinical opportunity put forward in phase 1 are eligible for MIME seed funding.
MIME Medtech Industry Innovators Day - Thursday 23 June
The day will include a series of seminars presented by industry leaders who are driving growth of the medtech sector and improved patient outcomes through innovation. Some of our speakers include:
George Margelis, Intel – Digital Health
Paul D’Urso, Anatomics – 3D Printing revolution in Healthcare
Tim Staker – Cabrini Technologies – Integrating Healthcare
David Rhodes – Admedus – New materials for Regenerative Medicine
Derek Minihane – Cochlear – Building an Innovative Culture
Sam Lanyon – Planet Innovation – Make it real: beyond R&D to product development
Kathy Connell – J&J New Ventures – Innovation models
Elpis Barons – Trajan Scientific and Medical – Trajan Accelerator
Sue MacLeman – MTPConnect – Growth through innovation and collaboration
A series of seminars presented by our researchers and clinicians at the forefront of new technologies that will underpin the next generation of medical technologies will also be conducted throughout the day. Some of the themes throughout the day will include:
Wearables, sensors and monitoring
Surgical simulation and training
New diagnostic platforms
Biomaterials and regenerative medicine
Medical robotics and 3D printing
Neuro devices and imaging
Health ICT and bioinformatics
In the afternoon a panel Q&A session will be available for all attendees to hear about funding schemes that support collaborative medtech projects. This event is now fully subscribed. To be put on the waiting list or for further details regarding the MIME Medtech Industry Innovators Day please contact MIME's Executive Officer, Susan Newland susan.newland@monash.edu.
PhD and ECR Poster Program - Win a Travel Scholarship
The MIME Medtech Industry Innovators Day is fully subscribed with 140 attendees expected throughout the day including over 70 external guests from industry and government. Guests will be able to peruse the posters throughout the day with a specific time set aside during their lunch break from 12.15pm - 1.00pm for students to man their posters and be available for a Q&A session. Two travel scholarships worth $2,500 each will be awarded to the two most successful posters. Posters will be judged on the following criteria:
- Potential for impact - does the research have the potential to lead to high impact outcomes?
- Quality of the science - does the poster contain high quality science?
- Presentation - how effectively does the poster convey the key information?
- Communication - how engaged is the student with the audience during the presentation period?
To be part of this exciting opportunity, students must submit an expression of interest to participate in the program to MIME's Executive Officer Susan Newland via email susan.newland@monash.edu by 5.00pm on Thursday, 16 June.
Please include the following details in your expression of interest:
- Your name and email address
- Your department
- Whether you are a PhD student or an ECR
- Your area of research and how it relates to the medtech or health ICT sector
- A short synopsis of your poster
PhD and ECR who submit an expression of interest that is deemed eligible will be contacted by return email on Friday, 17 June to advise them to prepare their poster for the session. If you already have an existing poster you may use this. Alternatively, MIME can provide you with a template. Please contact MIME's Executive Officer, Susan Newland susan.newland@monash.edu for further details regarding the template.
Participants must be available to set up their poster board from 2.00pm on Wednesday, 22 June and be available to take part in the Q&A session between 12.15pm - 1.00pm on Thursday, 23 June.
A template for the poster will be available from MIME's Executive Officer Susan Newland susan.newland@monash.edu.
SPARK Global - Bioinnovations Course - Scholarships Awarded
This year MIME was approached to send two students to attend the highly prestigious international course which attracts students globally from many different universities. Some of the participating universities include:
- Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
- University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- The Kolling Institute at University of Sydney
- Tokyo University, Japan
- Academia Sinica, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- Korea University
- University of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- University of Vermont
- Witswatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa
MIME issued a call for interested participants through the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences and students were invited to apply. We received many high quality applications. Applications were assessed on their research area of relevance, their research history and capability and their overall application highlighting why they would like to attend the course. Two students were then each awarded a $5,000 travel scholarship from MIME to cover their registration, flights and accommodation for the course.
MIME would like to congratulate Sepideh Motamed from the Faculty of Engineering and Christopher Daly from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences who are this years inaugural MIME representatives. We wish both Sepideh and Christopher an exciting and rewarding experience.
Review of 2016 MIME Affinity Meetings
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