MIPS Seminar Program
All university staff (research and academic), alumni, all higher degree by research students and honours research students are invited to attend these Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences seminars.
The seminars will be held every third Wednesday from Wed 4th March 12-1pm at Monash University's Parkville campus, 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria (unless otherwise stipulated).
If you wish to be added to the seminar mailing list email Asuntha.Munasinghe@monash.edu.
The 2020 MIPS Meet the Fellows seminar program will be scheduled soon.
Date | Presenter | Topic | Host | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Feb (special MIPS seminar) | Dr Timothy Wells Medicines for Malaria Venture | Lessons from Malaria drug development and how to apply | Professor Sue Charman | Lecture Theatre 1 |
| 4 Mar | Professor Rebecca Ritchie Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences | Introducing the Heart Failure Pharmacology team to MIPS - an overview of our strategies for preserving and restoring the function of the heart in health and disease | Professor Patrick Sexton | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 15 Apr | Associate Professor Bradley Turner The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health | Using a personalised medicine approach for MND | Associate Professor Joe Nicolazzo | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 27 May | Professor Stephen J Simpson The University of Sydney | Eat Like the Animals | Professor Arthur Christopoulos | Lecture Theatre 3 |
29 Jul | Professor Trevor Kilpatrick The University of Melbourne | TBA | Professor Ray Norton | Lecture Theatre 3 |
2019 MIPS seminar program :
| Date | Presenter | Topic | Host | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Feb | Prof Mark Febbraio Drug Discovery Biology, Monash University | Metabolism in Health & Disease | Prof Chris Porter | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 27 Feb | Mr Mark Sullivan Medicines Development for Global Health | Turning our research into medicines: throwing a spotlight on development | Prof Sue Charman | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 13 Mar | Prof Natasha Harvey Centre for Cancer Biology, UniSA | Defining the genetic and developmental basis of human lymphatic vascular disease | Dr Natalie Trevaskis | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 4 Apr | Prof Robert Young Simon Fraser University, Canada | Bone Targeting Pro-drug Conjugates for treatment of Osteoporosis and Other Bone related Conditions | Prof Chris Porter | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 10 Apr | Dr Cornelia Landersdorfer Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash University | Optimising antibiotic therapy against ‘superbugs’: towards precision medicine | Prof Simon Bell | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 22 May | Prof Andrew Scott Olivia Newton John Cancer Research Institute | Development of novel therapies for brain tumours | A/Prof Joe Nicolazzo | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 5 Jun | Dr Denise Wootten Monash University | Structural and molecular insights into the control of signalling at class B GPCRs | Prof Arthur Christopoulos | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 19 Jun | Dr Ben Capuano Monash University | Antipsychotic Drug Discovery... The Long And Winding Road | Prof Peter Scammells | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 3 Jul | Prof Jonathan Cebon Olivia Newton John Cancer Research Institute | Antigen targeted cancer therapy in the era of immune checkpoint inhibition | Prof Colin Pouton | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 17 Jul | Prof Steven Petrou Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health | Precision medicine in epilepsy | Prof Ray Norton | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 31 Jul | Prof Grant McArthur Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre | Novel approaches to overcome resistance to BRAF-targeted therapy for melanoma | A/Prof Erica Sloan | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 14 Aug | Prof Glenda Halliday The University of Sydney | Catching Parkinon’s disease – does the evidence stack up? | A/Prof Joe Nicolazzo | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 28 Aug | A/Prof Megan Munsie The University of Melbourne | Clash of hopes: The challenge of managing expectations in stem cell science | Prof Colin Pouton | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 11 Sep | Prof Michael Sailor University of California, San Diego | Treatments of bacterial infections with porous silicon Nanoparticles | Prof Nico Voelcker | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 23 Oct | A/Prof Jonathon Arnold The University of Sydney | Beyond cannabidiol: the discovery of novel cannabis-based therapeutics for drug-resistant epilepsy | A/Prof Joe Nicolazzo | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 6 Nov | Prof Mark von Itzstein Griffith University | Structure-guided inhibitor discovery in targeting clinically-important viruses | Prof Peter Scammells | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 20 Nov | Prof Fabienne Mackay The University of Melbourne | Novel immune checkpoint in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia | Prof Mark Febbraio | Lecture Theatre 1 |