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Monash Institute of Medical Research awarded

22 November 2005

Eight staff members from the Monash Institute of Medical Research have received awards for their research in areas including women's health, kidney disease and sleep disorders.

Ms Rachel Chan, a PhD student in the Centre for Women's Health Research, was awarded a $15,000 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Schering 75th Anniversary Research Grant for 2006. Ms Chan will use her scholarship to investigate endometrial stem cells using technology she has developed during her PhD.

Ms Jacqui Donoghue, a second-year PhD student from the Centre for Women's Health Research, won the Australian and New Zealand Microcirculation Society Young Investigator Award for her research into uterine lymphatics in endometrial cancer and abnormal uterine bleeding.

Associate Professor Richard Kitching, Dr Michael Hickey and third-year PhD student Mr Michael Kuligowski, from the Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, won the ANZ Society of Nephrology Basic Science Award for their research into the movement of white blood cells through the kidney and the role they may play in abnormal kidney inflammation.

It is the second consecutive year scientists from the Centre for Inflammatory Diseases have won this award.

Mr Kuligowski also received the David Garlick Young Investigator Award for his role in kidney disease research.

Dr Garun Hamilton, a PhD student in the Ritchie Centre for Baby Health Research, won the New Investigator Award at the Australasian Sleep Association Meeting for his discovery that mild infections, causing injury to the heart's blood vessels, could interfere with heart function during sleep apnea.

PhD students Ms Heidi Richardson and Ms Stephanie Yiallourou, also from the Ritchie Centre, received finalists' awards in the New Investigator Award at the Australasian Sleep Association Meeting.