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Switching the immune system off: the keys to autoimmunity, allergy, immune deficiency and cancer (November 16 2011)

Professor Chris Goodnow

, Head of the Department of Immunology at JCSMR

2nd Annual John Curtin Lecture in 

Medical Research, entitled 'Switching the immune system off: the keys to 

autoimmunity, allergy, immune…

Centre of Research Excellence round 3 information session (November 07 2011)

Dr Bob Wells

, Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute

The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute held an Information Session for prospective applicants for funding…

Coordinating public & private sector efforts to improve healthcare quality & performance (July 27 2011)

Dr Brian Mittman

, Brian Mittman, PhD is Director of the VA Center for Implementation Practice and Research Support at the Veteran Affairs Greater

Improvements in healthcare quality, safety and efficiency require the coordinated involvement and contributions…

Professor Perminder Sachdev - New research criteria for vascular cognitive disorders (April 04 2011)

Professor Perminder Sachdev

New research criteria for vascular cognitive disorders: Toward a VASCOG consensus

1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry - Welcome and overview (April 04 2011)

Professor Julio Licinio

Welcome and overview, 1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry

Professor Colim Masters - Biomarkers inform therapeutic strategies in neuropsychiatry (April 04 2011)

Professor Colin Masters

Professor Colim Masters - Biomarkers inform therapeutic strategies in neuropsychiatric disease

Professor Ian Everall - Gene expression in schizophrenia (April 04 2011)

Professor Ian Everall

Professor Ian Everall - Gene expression in schizophrenia: Mechanism and biomarkers

Professor Philip Mitchell - A high risk longitudinal study of offspring of patients with bipolar (April 04 2011)

Professor Philip Mitchell

1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry

Professor Philip Mitchell - A high risk…

Professor Malcolm Horne - Plasma alpha synuclein as risk marker for Parkinsons (April 04 2011)

Professor Malcolm Horne

Professor Malcolm Horne - Plasma alpha synuclein as risk marker for Parkinson's disease

1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry - Keynote Address (April 04 2011)

Professor Julio Licinio

1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry - Keynote Address

A sneak peak at the future of psychiatry

Professor Ian Hickie - Predictors of illness progression in young people with mood disorders (April 04 2011)

Professor Ian Hickie

Professor Ian Hickie - Neuropsychological and circadian predictors of illness progression in young people with mood disorders 

1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry - Round Table Panel Discussion (April 04 2011)

1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry

1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry - Round table discussion

The future of scienctific publishing: When to go to new venues, When to stick to traditioanl journals.

Chaired…

Prof Helen Christensen & Dr Kathy Griffiths - From population trials to public health practice (April 04 2011)

Professor Helen Christensen and Dr Kathy Griffiths

From population trials to public health practice: An example of a Global Health Service

Professor Michael Berk - Early intervention neuroprogression and neuroprotection (April 04 2011)

Professor Michael Berk

Early in tervention neuroprogression and neuroprotection: Pathways to progressive brain changes and novel therapeutic targets.

Diffusion, spread & sustainability of proven innovations in health care Pt1 (March 29 2011)

Professor Jonathan Lomas

Diffusion, spread & sustainability of proven innovations in health care Pt2 (March 29 2011)

Professor Jonathan Lomas

Information for prospective Applicants to CRE (March 21 2011)

Mr Bob Wells, Dir APHCRI; Ms Vicki Murphy, Dept of Health and Ageing; Dr Dagmar Ceramidas, APHCRI, and Mr Will Wright

The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) at The Australian National University (ANU) has opened…

Professor Stanley Ulijaszek

Obesity as a Complex Problem (September 24 2009)

Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology & Director, Unit for Biocultural Variation & Obesity, University of Oxford

Obesity has increased dramatically across the world, and there is currently no solution to its control. While obesity is easily understood as the positive imbalance of energy intake and…

Professor Simon Conway Morris

Darwin’s Compass: Why the evolution of humans is inevitable (September 23 2009)

Professor Simon Conway Morris, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge

Orthodox neo-Darwinism very much emphasises the random and contingent. Re-run the tape of life, as Steven Jay Gould famously observed, and the outcomes would be utterly different. Terrestrial…

Professor Debra Humphris

Working Together for a Better Health Care System (August 05 2009)

Professor Debra Humphris, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Education & Professor of Health Care Development, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Research findings and government reports indicate Australia's primary health care workforce is facing significant challenges and is lagging behind in its use of teamwork approaches. The National Health…

Professor W. Graham Richards

How to Become a Millionaire without Losing your Soul (June 04 2009)

Professor W. Graham Richards, Head of the Centre for Computational Drug Discovery, Oxford University

One of the few attractive ways of escaping the current economic depression is to create new companies and new industries. Scientific research provides perhaps the best starting point. Just how this…

Professor Michael Good AO

Promises & challenges in developing new vaccines, with a focus on diseases of the developing world (April 29 2009)

Professor Michael Good AO, Director of The Queensland Institute for Medical Research

Learning how to harness the power of the immune system to combat infectious killers has been one of the most dramatic developments in the history of medicine.  Eradication of smallpox and the near…

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The 14th Annual Lions Oratory Competition 2008 (September 17 2008)

Andaleeb Akhand, Amanda Alford, Hae-Young (Connie) Chong, Kirill Talanine, Tamie Balaga, Thomas Conyers, Contestants in the 2008 Lions Oratory Competition

The 14th Annual Lions Oratory Competition saw selected ANU students from across the University present eight minute orations to convince the judges and the audience that they deserved to win the ANU…

JCSMR

Sustainable Funding for Australia’s Future Health Care (September 09 2008)

Professor Jim Butler, Dr Francesco Paolucci and Henry Ergas

Like many other countries, Australia is facing significantly increased costs in the future in maintaining the health of its people.  In coming decades we will have more people suffering from chronic…

Professor Michael Wesley

Risk, Uncertainty & The Future of National Security (May 08 2008)

Professor Michael Wesley, Professor of International Relations and Director of the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University

Officially we are still fighting a "War on Terror", but few people in Australia would say we are still living in an "Age of Terror". Oil prices have quadrupled, but we have not seen the same panicked…

JCSMR

Immunity & Altered Self - The Struggle Between Our Self, Our Genome Sequence & Our Microbes (April 29 2008)

Professor Christopher C Goodnow, Director, Immunology and Genetics Division, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU

World Day of Immunology 2008 Public Lecture

What defines us as individuals? What makes us both similar and different to other individuals, other species?

These are great…

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Socratic Forum: That Canberra is Taking Too Much Power from The States (March 11 2008)

Hosted by Professor Ian Chubb AC

In this debate, ANU plays host to a number of influential public figures including ACT Attorney General Simon Corbell; Dr Clive Hamilton, The Australia Institute; Professor Peter Bailey, ANU; Channel…

Professor Malcolm Dando

Biosecurity: Upgrading the Web of Prevention (February 13 2008)

Professor Malcolm Dando, Professor, International Security, Department of Peace Sudies, University of Bradford, UK

In this lecture Professor Dando reviews international control of the biotechnology revolution, the threat of deliberate disease - from biowarfare, bioterrorism, and the possible misuse of benignly…

Just War Theory & Chemical/Biological Weapons (November 21 2007)

Professor Larry May, Professor of Philosophy, Washington University

For several thousand years, philosophers, lawyers, and theologians have developed a theory of the just war, where rules are set for deciding when a war should be fought and what tactics can be employed…

Sir Richard G A Feachem

Fighting the Great Pandemics (May 15 2007)

Sir Richard G A Feachem, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (2002-2007)

The last five years have seen a remarkable increase in the level of financing and commitment in the war against AIDS, TB and Malaria. This period has also witnessed remarkable innovations in the business…