The Chief Medical Officer, Prof Gary Geelhoed, and Prof Jonathan Carapetis, head of Telethon Kids Institute, have been appointed to the National Health and Medical Research Council. Also appointed is Mt Barker raised Prof Sandra Eades, currently working in Aboriginal Health at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute.
Ophthalmologist Dr Fred Chen, Dr Tom Snelling from Telethon Kids Institute and Prof Willem Joost Lesterhuis from UWA Medical School are three of seven people sharing grants from the New Independent Research Infrastructure Support fund.
Australia’s first listed medical marijuana company PhytoTech Medical Limited has been given the nod by shareholders and merged with MMJ Bioscience Inc. to rebrand as MMJ PhytoTech Limited (ASX=MMJ). Phytotech researches in Israel and will loan the Canadian based MMJ CAN$1.35m, with board mergers aimed to grow the international medical cannabis market, especially its European operations focused on sales of its dietary supplement Cannabidiol (CBD).
Resonance Health’s Chief Scientific Officer Prof Tim St Pierre has won the Commonwealth Bank sponsored Western Region EY Entrepreneur of the Year™ in the technology category (see www.ey.com/au/eoy). He competes for the national award in Sydney in October. He and UWA have developed FerriScan® (an MRI-based technology to measure liver iron) and now the HepaFat-Scan that measures fat in the liver (for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease linked to obesity).
Curtin University has appointed Prof Rachel Huxley as its new Head of School of Public Health. She comes from University of Queensland and has worked at Oxford UK, Sydney Uni, and Minnesota Uni. Her research focus is on major and modifiable risk factors for chronic disease, and any sex and ethnic disparities. She replaces Prof Bruce Maycock.
Dr Maria Garefalakis is no longer medical director at Sexual and Reproductive Health WA (formerly Family Planning WA). A replacement has not been announced.
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p class=”MsoNormal” style=”margin-bottom: 6.0pt;”>Fiona Stanley Hospital has won the top prize at this year’s WA Architecture Awards, with Hassell, Hames Sharley and Silver Thomas Hanley commended for their design efforts.