Perth urologist Prof Dickon Hayne has accepted the British Journal of Urology’s Global Prize for 2023, on behalf of the Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group, for research on local anaesthesia to reduce the discomfort of prostate biopsy.
Dr Charmaine Green, a woman of the Yamaji Nation and a research fellow with the WA Centre for Rural Health in Geraldton, has become the first to be awarded a PhD through Kurongkurl Katitjin, Edith Cowan University’s Centre for Indigenous Australian Education and Research.
WA’s Perron Institute has appointed Emeritus Professor John Finlay-Jones as a board director. With a background in clinical microbiology and immunology, he also takes over as chair of the institute’s research advisory committee.
In other moves, Telethon Kids Institute and the University of Western Australia have appointed Professor Melissa Penny, a leading researcher in malaria and infectious diseases, as the inaugural Fiona Stanley Chair of Child Health Research.
Sherl Westlund, the long-serving executive of Diabetes Research WA, has stepped down from the role she has held since 2007, after first joining the organisation in 1997.
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