MIME News - Wednesday 14 September
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Congratulations to the Successful 2016 MIME Seed Fund Teams
Building on the success of the inaugural 2015 MIME Seed Fund round, the 2016 MIME Seed Fund round has proven to be an overwhelming success with 57 unmet clinical need statements submitted by our clinicians as part of phase 1 of the program. In phase 2 of the program, where researchers and clinicians came together to submit joint research proposals, we received over 43 applications in total. After extensive review and interviews, over $800 000 in seed funding has been awarded, and a further $150 000 co-committed by CSIRO.
We would like to thank all clinicians who submitted an unmet clinical need and all researchers and clinicians who submitted a project proposal. We extend our congratulations to the top sixteen successful project teams listed below.
We look forward to the 2017 MIME Seed Fund round being as successful. Details regarding the 2017 round will be available on the MIME website early in 2017.
| ID | Title of Project | Clinical Champion |
Collaborators |
| 51 | Robotic transperineal prostate cancer biopsy |
A/Prof Jeremy Grummet Urologist |
Lead CI Dr Chao Chen (eng)
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| 33 | Enhancing colonoscopic visualisation and control |
Dr Mayur Garg Consultant Gastroenterologist |
Lead CI Dr Song Chaoyang (eng) Additional Team Prof Sunita Chauhan (eng) |
| 57 | 3D-bioprinted scaffold of trapezium in basal thumb arthritis management |
Prof Julian Smith Head of Department of Surgery Monash Medical Centre |
Lead CI Laurence Meagher (eng) Additional Team Dr Andrey Molotnikov (eng), Dr Jessica Frith (eng), A/Prof David Hunter-Smith (med), Dr Warren Rozen (med), Dr Michael P. Chae (med), Prof Graham Jenkin (Monash Health), Prof Anthony Atala (Wake Forest Institute), Dr Sean V Murphy (Wake Forest School of Medicine), Dr Kanika Jain (Hudson Institute) |
| 9 | Jaundiced infants-Expanding home care | Dr Katrina Harris Medical lead, Monash Children's@Home |
Lead CI Prof Wei Shen (eng) Additional Team Dr Charles Barfield (Monash Medical Centre), Dr James Doery (Monash Medical Centre), Dr Liyuan Zhang, Ms Amanda Vantin (Monash Medical Centre), Dr Stephen Wang (MADA), Dr Mark Bown (CSIRO), Dr Jenny O’Connell (CSIRO), Dr Andrew Scully (CSIRO), Dr Chris Dunn (CSIRO) |
| 6 | Rational mesh design for urogynaecological surgery | A/Prof Anna Rosamilia Head Pelvic Floor Clinic, Monash Health |
Lead CI A/Prof Caroline Gargett (med) Additional Team Prof Chris Davies (eng), Professor Jerome Werkmeister (CSIRO),Dr Dayalan Gunasegaram (CSIRO), Dr Sharon Edwards (CSIRO) |
| 25 | Surface modifications prevent driveline infection | Prof David McGiffin Director Cardiothoracic Surgery & Transplantation Alfred Health |
Lead CI A/Prof John Forsythe (eng) Additional Team Prof Laurence Meagher (eng), Dr Yue Qu (eng), Dr. Helmut Thissen (CSIRO) |
| 21 | Monitoring back movement and function | Prof Flavia Cicuttini Head Musculoskeletal Unit Alfred Health |
Lead CI Dr Pari Delir Haghighi (IT) Additional Team Prof Frada Burstein (IT), Dr Stephen Jia Wang (MADA), Prof Wenlong Cheng (eng) |
| 39 | The diabetic sensate footwear project | Dr Alan Saunder Unit Head Vascular and Transplant Surgery Monash Health |
Lead CI Prof Jon McCormack (IT) Additional Team Prof Mark Armstrong (MADA), Prof Daphne Flynn (MADA), Prof Arthur de Bono (MADA), Tina Dinh (MADA), Kieran John (MADA) |
| 18a | Personalizing cancer treatments | Prof Magdalena Plebanski Head of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Unit |
Lead CI Prof Magdalena Plebanski (med) Additional Team Dr Simon Corrie (eng), A/Prof Tom Jobling (Monash Health), Dr Andrew Stephens (Hudson) |
| 20 | Cardiovascular modeling with MRI | A/Prof Andrew Taylor Head of Non-Invasive Imaging, Alfred Cardiology |
Lead CI Prof Murray Rudman (eng) Additional Team Prof Mark Thompson (eng), Dr Ben Costello (Baker), Dr Sina Sinaie (eng), A/Prof Andre La Gerche (Baker) |
| 37 | Risk-adjusted reporting intensive care efficiency | Prof David Pilcher, Senior Intensivist, Alfred Intensive Care Unit, & Chair of ANZICS Centre for Outcomes and Resource Evaluation | Lead CI Prof Geoff Webb (IT) Additional Team Dr Christoph Bergmeir (IT), Dr Lahn Straney (med) |
| 35a | 3D printer hand prostheses | Dr Lisa O'Brien, State Convenor (Vic/Tas) of Australian Hand Therapy Association special interest group | Lead CI Dr Chao Chen (eng) |
| 2 | Health behaviours in dysglycaemia | Prof Christopher Gilfillan, Director of Endocrinology Eastern Health |
Lead CI Prof Sunita Chauhan (eng) Additional Team Dr Faezeh Marzbanrad (eng), Prof Frada Burstein (IT), Dr Sarah Boyd (IT), Prof Daphne Flynn (MADA) |
| 4 | Virtual reality social cognitive training | Prof Paul Fitzgerald, Professor of Psychiatry, Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre | Lead CI Prof Jon McCormack (IT) Additional Team Elliott Wilson (IT), Mike Yeats, Patrick Hutchings (IT) |
| 50 | 3D printed arm splints | A/Prof Jim Buttery, Research Director, Monash Children's Hospital | Lead CI Dr Andrey Molotnikov (eng) Additional Team Prof Chris Davies (eng) |
| 7b | Burn wound management: Bioactive technology | Dr Heather Cleland Director, Victorian Adult Burns Service Alfred Health |
Lead CI Dr Jess Frith (eng) Additional Team Prof Laurence Meagher (eng), Prof Neil Cameron (eng) Dr Rebecca Lim (med), A/Prof Mikaël Martino (med) |
Call for Submissions for MIME Travel Grants - $2500
i. International conference attendance in concert with visits to key groups for further learning, career development and to establish networks and collaborations with high profile international research groups, or
ii. Travel for new collaborative work or continue existing collaborations with key international research groups.
The travel should be carried out within the next 12 months, i.e. by 30 September 2017. The closing date for applications is 5 October 2016. Applications should be submitted via the Google Form.
Upcoming MIME Seminars and Events
11 - 13 October - Monash Health Innovation and Improvement Expo, Monash Medical Centre
Friday 28 October - Eastern Clinical School Affinity Meeting, Eastern Health
Congratulations to Andrew Rodda and his successful application with the Jack Brockhoff Foundation
MIME Seminar Series Review - Wearable and Point of Care Biodiagnostics Workshop
Professor Joseph Wang provided a truly engaging morning plenary session on Wearable Electrochemical Sensors: Stretching the Imagination. We received wonderful feedback from our industry partners and our general attendees regarding his session. Professor Joseph Wang is the SAIC Endowed Chair professor and Chairman of the NanoEngineering Department at University of California, San Diego and is Director of the Center for Wearable Sensors at UC San Diego. Professor Wang's research focuses on field of nanobioelectronics aimed at integrating nano- and biomaterials with electronic transducers. He is a leader in a wide range of research areas including nanomachines, nanobioelectronics, and sensing technologies for applications including clinical diagnostics, environmental and security monitoring and remote sensing.
Mr Joseph Winter presented an interesting and insightful afternoon plenary session on Wearable Sensors in Elite Sport, which all attendees found beneficial. Mr Joseph Winter is the Head of Discipline for the AIS Innovation, Research and Development (iRD) area. He provides leadership within the iRD team; coordinating communication with the national network; coordination of the ASC Research, Research to Action and Competitive Innovation funds processes and interfacing with NSWO and AIS high performance personnel including athletes, coaches and support teams. Joseph's professional areas of interest include use of GNSS technologies for high precision metrology applications, leadership, innovation processes and advanced manufacturing methods.
MIME Funded Scholarship SPARK Program
This year MIME was approached to send two students, Chris Daly and Sepideh Motamed to attend the highly prestigious international SPARK Bioinnovation and Entrepreneurship Course hosted by Stanford University, which attracts students globally from many different universities.
The SPARK program was started at Stanford as a partnership between university and industry with the purpose of providing education and mentorship to facilitate the advancement of research discoveries from the bench to the bedside. The program was initiated based on the experiences of two Stanford Professors, Daria Mochly-Rosen and Kevin Grimes, and a recent PhD student, Dr Leon Chen, regarding taking a novel therapy from the laboratory through the translational process. Since the inception of the SPARK program in 2007 the program has spread to more than 12 countries as a model of translational research.
Dr Chris Daly has provided us with a brief synopsis relating to his experience.
"The SPARK Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Course was an incredible experience that opened my eyes to the endless opportunities available to impact the lives of others through healthcare and translational research. I look forward to applying this knowledge during my PhD, throughout my career and also look forward to future collaborations with the international SPARK network. I highly recommend the SPARK program to all those interested in learning more about the process of translating research from the bench to the bedside and look forward to the realization of the potential of the MIME, Monash and Australia in research translation in the future".
MIME hopes to be able to send a further two students to attend the course in 2017.
MIME News - Wednesday 29 June
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2016 MIME Seed Fund - Phase 2 Deadline Extended to 1st August
Phase 2 of the 2016 MIME Seed Fund is now open. We invite all Monash researchers to peruse the clinical opportunities put forward in phase 1 to identify how your research expertise could potentially contribute to solving a major clinical need. The range of research expertise needed is very broad – such as biomaterials, microfluidics, sensors, mechatronics, wearable technologies, image analysis, data mining, industrial design, CFD, biomarkers and bioinformatics, nanotechnology, decision support and app development.
For those topics where you have relevant expertise and are interested in being part of the solution team, please contact the clinician researcher to discuss the area further. Contact details for each clinician are available on the MIME website within each phase 1 application http://monash.edu/mime/funding/phase-1/.
As many of the clinical needs will require a multidisciplinary team to solve the challenge, MIME is able to assist in arranging workshops or brainstorming sessions for potential team members. Please contact MIME's Executive Officer, Susan Newland susan.newland@monash.edu.
When your team has formulated a proposed R&D program that addresses the clinical challenge, the lead researcher should submit a phase 2 application for MIME seed funding. This form is available to download from the MIME website http://monash.edu/mime/funding/about-mime-seed-fund.html.
Up to $50,000 may be requested per project area, to deliver a meaningful outcome within 12-18 months. An additional $50,000 maybe requested if your research team includes one or more CSIRO collaborators.
Phase 2 applications must be submitted to Susan Newland, susan.newland@monash.edu by Monday, 1 August. Any Monash staff member may submit the application or be part of the team, but the team must include the initiating clinician researcher, and a researcher from either Faculty of Engineering or Faculty of IT. In phase 2, only submissions directly responding to a clinical opportunity put forward in phase 1 are eligible for MIME seed funding.
MIME Medtech Industry Innovators Day
The event was part of MIME's series of forums to bring together clinicians, researchers and industry leaders at the forefront of medtech product innovation to explore new opportunities for collaboration. The event featured a plenary session showcasing presentations from industry leaders who are driving growth of the medtech sector and improved patient outcomes through innovation. Plenary presenters and their topics included:
- Sue MacLeman, MTPConnect – Growth through innovation and collaboration
- Paul D’Urso, Anatomics – 3D Printing revolution in Healthcare
- George Margelis, Intel – Digital health
- Kathy Connell, J&J New ventures – Innovation models
- Susi Tegen, Medical Technologies Association of Australia - An update from MTAA
- Wearables, sensors & monitoring
- Biomaterials & regen med
- Digital health & design
- Surgical simulation & training, 3D printed devices, robotics
- Neuro devices & bionics
- Diagnostics
- Tim Staker, Cabrini Technologies – Integrating healthcare
- David Rhodes, Admedus – New materials for regenerative medicine
- Derek Minihane, Cochlear – Building an innovative culture
- Sam Lanyon, Planet Innovation – Make it real: beyond R&D to product development
- Elpis Barons, Trajan Scientific and Medical – Trajan Accelerator
In addition to our industry and clinical champions the seminar sessions also featured presentations from MIME researchers at the forefront of research and new technologies that will underpin the next generation of medical technologies.
Over lunch attendees had the opportunity to view posters on display from our PhD students and ECR and network with the students and other participants.
The afternoon saw the group reconvene for a panel Q&A session on funding schemes that support collaborative medtech projects. The day ended with the opportunity for attendees to participate in a range of platform and facility tours at the University in key areas of the medtech sector.
Many participants also stayed on for networking drinks in the evening at the AusBiotech BioBeer and Bubbles event, which was co-hosted with Monash Innovation.
The day was action packed and was an amazing success. We received wonderful feedback from all involved and look forward to planning our next industry innovators day. If you would like to attend or present at our next event, please let us know.
Congratulations to our PhD and ECR Poster Winners
We extend our congratulations to our successful applicants Jessica Lyndon and Ramya Chandrasekaran. Further details regarding their posters are outlined below.
Jessica Lyndon from Materials Science and Engineering with a poster in the area of temporary magnesium orthopaedic implants and their application as drug delivery devices.
Ramya Chandrasekaran from the Department of Chemical Engineering with a poster in the area of DNA Aptamer targeted Gold nanorods for image guided photothermal therapy: In vitro and In vivo studies.
We look forward to receiving both Jessica and Ramya's report after their travel.
We received a large number of applications for the poster program as part of the MIME Medtech Industry Innovators Day held on Thursday, 23 June. The prize for the poster program was a $2,500 MIME Travel Grant. The poster program was open to PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and early career researchers working on projects that involve medical technologies. Attendees at the MIME Medtech Industry Innovators Day from industry, government, our partner hospitals and Monash were able to peruse the posters throughout the day with a specific time set aside during their lunch break from 12.15pm - 1.00pm for students to man their posters and be available for a Q&A session to provide further details on their posters to attendees.
Posters were judged on the following criteria:
- Potential for impact - does the research have the potential to lead to high impact outcomes?
- Quality of the science - does the poster contain high quality science?
- Presentation - how effectively does the poster convey the key information?
- Communication - how engaged is the student with the audience during the presentation period?
Two prizes were awarded as part of the competition valued at $2,500 to be used to cover costs of items such as international conference attendance, visits to key groups for further learning, career development to establish networks or collaborations with high profile international research groups.
2016 Victorian BioMed Honours & PhD Expo - Attract New Students!
The 2016 Victorian Honours & PhD Expo Hosted by UROP@BioMedVic is scheduled for Friday, 22 July from 4.00pm - 6.00pm at the Melbourne Exhibition & Convention Centre. MIME has secured a booth at this event. The event is designed to showcase opportunities for Honours and PhD projects for 2017 and hence is an excellent opportunity for supervisors to attract new students. All MIME researchers are welcome to join the MIME booth or supply us with a one page flyer to hand out to potential students on the day and one slide to include as part of our rolling slide presentation. We strongly encourage MIME funded PhD scholarship teams who have not yet secured a suitable applicant for their project to participate in this event. Please contact MIME's Executive Officer, Susan Newland susan.newland@monash.edu if you would like to participate in this event as a MIME affiliate.
Funding Opportunities - Diabetes and International Research Scholarship Program
Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Research Network's Innovation Award
JDRF is pleased to announce that the Australian Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Research Network’s Innovation Award is open for applications.
Innovation Award
Innovation Award
This Request for Applications (RFA) for the Innovation Award is open to the best and brightest researchers with innovative ideas that have the potential to improve the lives of people with type 1 diabetes, regardless of whether you are currently in the field of type 1 diabetes research or completely external to it. We are seeking innovative proposals describing cutting-edge innovation falling outside current type 1 diabetes research paradigms supported by collaborative teams.
This award provides project funding of up to $1.5M for a period of two to three years.
Apply
This first round of application is open to Letters of Intent (LOI) and will be reviewed by an independent panel of experts. Only shortlisted applicants will be invited to apply for full submission.
Please reference the RFA for more information.
This award provides project funding of up to $1.5M for a period of two to three years.
Apply
This first round of application is open to Letters of Intent (LOI) and will be reviewed by an independent panel of experts. Only shortlisted applicants will be invited to apply for full submission.
Please reference the RFA for more information.
Applications must be submitted via RMS360, our online grants management system. For information on how to register on RMS360 and complete the online application, please refer to our User Guide. Please do not use Internet Explorer – only use Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox when accessing RMS360.
Important dates and deadlines
| LOI application opens LOI application deadline Invitation to full submission Full submission deadline** Interviews Notification to applicants | 15 April 2016 22 July 2016 - 17:00 AEST 31 August 2016 26 October 2016 - 17:00 AEDT 6-7 December 2016 January 2017 |
**Applicants must note that the Research Office of each Administering Organisation is required to certify to JDRF all “full submission” applications in RMS360 and may have an internal closing time which precedes this deadline. International Research Scholars Program | |
MIME News - Thursday 9 June
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2016 MIME Seed Fund - Phase 2 Now Open
Phase 2 is now open – we invite all Monash researchers to peruse the clinical opportunities put forward in phase 1 to identify how your research expertise could potentially contribute to solving a major clinical need. The range of research expertise needed is also very broad – such as biomaterials, microfluidics, sensors, mechatronics, wearable technologies, image analysis, data mining, industrial design, CFD, biomarkers and bioinformatics, nanotechnology, decision support and app development.
For those topics where you have relevant expertise and are interested in being part of the solution team, please contact the clinician researcher to discuss the area further. Contact details for each clinician are available on the MIME website within each phase 1 application http://monash.edu/mime/funding/phase-1/.
As many of the clinical needs will require a multidisciplinary team to solve the challenge, MIME is able to assist in arranging workshops or brainstorming sessions for potential team members. Please contact MIME's Executive Officer, Susan Newland susan.newland@monash.edu.
When your team has formulated a proposed R&D program that addresses the clinical challenge, the lead researcher should submit a phase 2 application for MIME seed funding. This form is available to download from the MIME website http://monash.edu/mime/funding/about-mime-seed-fund.html.
Up to $50,000 may be requested per project area, to deliver a meaningful outcome within 12-18 months. An additional $50,000 maybe requested if your research team includes one or more CSIRO collaborators.
Phase 2 applications must be submitted to Susan Newland, susan.newland@monash.edu by Wednesday, 6 July. Any Monash staff member may submit the application or be part of the team, but the team must include the initiating clinician researcher, and a researcher from either Faculty of Engineering or Faculty of IT. In phase 2, only submissions directly responding to a clinical opportunity put forward in phase 1 are eligible for MIME seed funding.
MIME Medtech Industry Innovators Day - Thursday 23 June
The day will include a series of seminars presented by industry leaders who are driving growth of the medtech sector and improved patient outcomes through innovation. Some of our speakers include:
George Margelis, Intel – Digital Health
Paul D’Urso, Anatomics – 3D Printing revolution in Healthcare
Tim Staker – Cabrini Technologies – Integrating Healthcare
David Rhodes – Admedus – New materials for Regenerative Medicine
Derek Minihane – Cochlear – Building an Innovative Culture
Sam Lanyon – Planet Innovation – Make it real: beyond R&D to product development
Kathy Connell – J&J New Ventures – Innovation models
Elpis Barons – Trajan Scientific and Medical – Trajan Accelerator
Sue MacLeman – MTPConnect – Growth through innovation and collaboration
A series of seminars presented by our researchers and clinicians at the forefront of new technologies that will underpin the next generation of medical technologies will also be conducted throughout the day. Some of the themes throughout the day will include:
Wearables, sensors and monitoring
Surgical simulation and training
New diagnostic platforms
Biomaterials and regenerative medicine
Medical robotics and 3D printing
Neuro devices and imaging
Health ICT and bioinformatics
In the afternoon a panel Q&A session will be available for all attendees to hear about funding schemes that support collaborative medtech projects. This event is now fully subscribed. To be put on the waiting list or for further details regarding the MIME Medtech Industry Innovators Day please contact MIME's Executive Officer, Susan Newland susan.newland@monash.edu.
PhD and ECR Poster Program - Win a Travel Scholarship
The MIME Medtech Industry Innovators Day is fully subscribed with 140 attendees expected throughout the day including over 70 external guests from industry and government. Guests will be able to peruse the posters throughout the day with a specific time set aside during their lunch break from 12.15pm - 1.00pm for students to man their posters and be available for a Q&A session. Two travel scholarships worth $2,500 each will be awarded to the two most successful posters. Posters will be judged on the following criteria:
- Potential for impact - does the research have the potential to lead to high impact outcomes?
- Quality of the science - does the poster contain high quality science?
- Presentation - how effectively does the poster convey the key information?
- Communication - how engaged is the student with the audience during the presentation period?
To be part of this exciting opportunity, students must submit an expression of interest to participate in the program to MIME's Executive Officer Susan Newland via email susan.newland@monash.edu by 5.00pm on Thursday, 16 June.
Please include the following details in your expression of interest:
- Your name and email address
- Your department
- Whether you are a PhD student or an ECR
- Your area of research and how it relates to the medtech or health ICT sector
- A short synopsis of your poster
PhD and ECR who submit an expression of interest that is deemed eligible will be contacted by return email on Friday, 17 June to advise them to prepare their poster for the session. If you already have an existing poster you may use this. Alternatively, MIME can provide you with a template. Please contact MIME's Executive Officer, Susan Newland susan.newland@monash.edu for further details regarding the template.
Participants must be available to set up their poster board from 2.00pm on Wednesday, 22 June and be available to take part in the Q&A session between 12.15pm - 1.00pm on Thursday, 23 June.
A template for the poster will be available from MIME's Executive Officer Susan Newland susan.newland@monash.edu.
SPARK Global - Bioinnovations Course - Scholarships Awarded
This year MIME was approached to send two students to attend the highly prestigious international course which attracts students globally from many different universities. Some of the participating universities include:
- Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
- University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- The Kolling Institute at University of Sydney
- Tokyo University, Japan
- Academia Sinica, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- Korea University
- University of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- University of Vermont
- Witswatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa
MIME issued a call for interested participants through the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences and students were invited to apply. We received many high quality applications. Applications were assessed on their research area of relevance, their research history and capability and their overall application highlighting why they would like to attend the course. Two students were then each awarded a $5,000 travel scholarship from MIME to cover their registration, flights and accommodation for the course.
MIME would like to congratulate Sepideh Motamed from the Faculty of Engineering and Christopher Daly from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences who are this years inaugural MIME representatives. We wish both Sepideh and Christopher an exciting and rewarding experience.
Review of 2016 MIME Affinity Meetings
MIME News - Monday 21 March
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Welcome to 2016
The executive team at MIME have spent the first few months of 2016 planning and preparing for the launch of the 2016 MIME Seed Fund round, which officially opens with Phase 1 applications on Friday, 8 April. Following on from the success of the 2015 MIME Seed Fund round, a further $500,000 will be available in 2016, with up to $50,000 available per project.
In the first quarter of this year MIME has hosted visits from several companies, international delegations and visitors from interstate universities. We have also launched our MIME seminar series with additional seminars throughout the year to be advertised through our regular MIME News bulletin. We hope you will be able to join various activities and collaborations throughout the year.
2016 MIME Affinity Meetings
MIME Affinity Meetings provide an opportunity for clinician researchers at our hospital sites to connect to researchers with enabling expertise in the areas of engineering, IT, design, science and biomedicine, etc. The meetings aim to foster new collaborative connections for clinicians and researchers interested in developing leading edge medical technologies.
In April 2016, MIME will be facilitating two Affinity Meetings which have been scheduled to coincide with Phase 1 of the MIME seed funding process, - i.e. the Call to Clinicians to nominate areas of significant unmet clinical need that could potentially be addressed by engineering or IT innovation.
Clinician researchers from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences are invited to give a 5 minute presentation outlining a clinical need or opportunity they are willing to champion. Please advise susan.newland@monash.edu or complete the appropriate registration form below if you wish to present. Engineering, IT & other researchers seeking a clinical collaborator are also invited to give a 5 minute presentation on aspects of their research that could make a significant difference to clinical diagnostics, treatment or care.
Engineering, IT and other MIME researchers are strongly encouraged to attend these events, to identify new opportunities to apply your expertise, and meet potential clinical collaborators. Networking time will be available. Researchers attending these events should then be well positioned to respond to Phase 2 of the MIME seed fund process - the call for Engineering or IT-enabled R&D programs addressing unmet clinical needs.
Researchers wishing to attend the Affinity Meetings should complete the online form below. MIME will provide transport between the Clayton site and the Affinity meetings.
Researchers from MIME partner organisations i.e. CSIRO, Hudson Institute and BakerIDI are also welcome to attend the MIME Affinity meetings.
The first meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, 20 April at Monash Medical Centre from 2.00pm - 4.00pm. If you would like to attend or present at this meeting please complete the registration form by Wednesday, 13 April.
The second meeting is scheduled for Thursday, 28 April at the Alfred from 9.00am - 11.00am, If you would like to attend or present at this meeting please complete the registration form by Thursday, 21 April.
Applications for clinicians to submit unmet clinical needs for the 2016 MIME Seed Fund round will open on Friday, 8 April. Applications should be submitted through the link on our website under the MIME Seed Funding tab. Up to $50,000 per project may be requested.
In April 2016, MIME will be facilitating two Affinity Meetings which have been scheduled to coincide with Phase 1 of the MIME seed funding process, - i.e. the Call to Clinicians to nominate areas of significant unmet clinical need that could potentially be addressed by engineering or IT innovation.
Clinician researchers from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences are invited to give a 5 minute presentation outlining a clinical need or opportunity they are willing to champion. Please advise susan.newland@monash.edu or complete the appropriate registration form below if you wish to present. Engineering, IT & other researchers seeking a clinical collaborator are also invited to give a 5 minute presentation on aspects of their research that could make a significant difference to clinical diagnostics, treatment or care.
Engineering, IT and other MIME researchers are strongly encouraged to attend these events, to identify new opportunities to apply your expertise, and meet potential clinical collaborators. Networking time will be available. Researchers attending these events should then be well positioned to respond to Phase 2 of the MIME seed fund process - the call for Engineering or IT-enabled R&D programs addressing unmet clinical needs.
Researchers wishing to attend the Affinity Meetings should complete the online form below. MIME will provide transport between the Clayton site and the Affinity meetings.
Researchers from MIME partner organisations i.e. CSIRO, Hudson Institute and BakerIDI are also welcome to attend the MIME Affinity meetings.
The second meeting is scheduled for Thursday, 28 April at the Alfred from 9.00am - 11.00am, If you would like to attend or present at this meeting please complete the registration form by Thursday, 21 April.
Applications for clinicians to submit unmet clinical needs for the 2016 MIME Seed Fund round will open on Friday, 8 April. Applications should be submitted through the link on our website under the MIME Seed Funding tab. Up to $50,000 per project may be requested.
Launch of the 2016 MIME Seed Fund Round
The 2016 round aims to continue building on the purpose of the 2015 round, which was designed to lay the foundations for the collaborative framework of MIME, by encouraging early clinician involvement in identifying areas of significant clinical need enabling our research to be directed to areas where it can deliver the greatest impact. Additionally, we are aiming to continue building and strengthening collaborative relationships between MNHS clinicians in Monash's partner hospitals and researchers in the Faculties of Engineering and IT, as well as reaching out to researchers in other disciplines and partner organisations.
Like the 2015 round, there will be two stages to the application process: an initial call to clinicians to define areas of unmet clinical need, followed by an invitation to all Monash staff to respond with proposed solutions. All Monash staff are eligible to participate in the multidisciplinary ‘solution' teams. Researchers from MIME partner institutions are also invited to participate as members of the collaborative teams.
Following on from the success of 2015, there will be up to $500,000 available in the 2016 funding round. Applications may be for any amount between $10,000 - $50,000. The funding will be directed to projects that can achieve a meaningful outcome within 12 - 18 months, e.g. proof-of-concept data or initial prototype. The seed funding is aimed at progressing a project to the point that the research team is well positioned to then secure external funding from industry or grants to progress the next phase of the R&D.
Further details regarding the 2016 MIME Seed Fund round including key dates are available on the MIME website.
Update on PhD Scholarships
The portfolio of available PhD project topics has been established via the 2015 seed fund process. For unmet clinical needs that require a challenging longer term research program, appropriate PhD projects were scoped by the multidisciplinary solution teams.
We are now actively seeking applications from prospective students, interested in carrying out world-leading medical engineering research in these project areas. These students will have the benefit of a truly multidisciplinary learning experience, being co-supervised by both the clinical champion and the leading STEM academics and mentored by the broader research team.
16 PhD living allowance scholarships have been made available for the MIME projects through the generous contributions of the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of IT, Central Clinical School, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Clinical Science Monash Health, Monash Health, the Alfred Foundation, Alfred Health Research Trust and CSIRO.
Further information is available on the MIME website.
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