MIME PhD Scholarships Awarded in 2015

MIME offers postgraduate students the opportunity to study with some of Australia's leading medical engineering researchers and clinicians.

As part of phase I of the 2015 MIME Seed Fund round, clinicians submitting an unmet clinical need proposal were asked if they would be interested in the project being a PhD scholarship. Additionally, as part of phase II of the 2015 MIME Seed Fund round, researchers were asked to indicate if they would be interested in funding in the form of a PhD scholarship. 

As a result, 17 projects were identified as PhD projects and were offered PhD funding. Additionally, 3 summer school projects were also awarded. 

As with the 2015 MIME Seed Fund round, we would like to thank all clinicians who submitted an unmet clinical need identifying that the project was a suitable PhD topic and all researchers who submitted a project proposal response. We extend our congratulations to the successful project teams below. 

Applications for the PhD scholarships will be welcomed in 2016 via the MIME website www.monash.edu/mime or by contacting Professor Laurence Meagher, Deputy Director, Director of Research, MIME laurence.meagher@monash.edu

	Clinical champion	Project title	Short description	Researchers from Eng/IT	Others	Hospital
MIME 2015 PhD Scholarship Awardees
Cardiovascular and lung disease
28	Professor David Kaye	Heart attack	Develop 3D-printed muscle patch for heart repair	Professor Laurence Meagher (ENG)	Dr Almar Postma (CSIRO)	Alfred Health
40	Dr Randall Moshinsky	Cardiac surgery	Develop minimally invasive surgical needle holder for complex cardiac procedures, improving quality and reducing cardiac surgery times	Professor Bijan Shirinzadeh (ENG), Dr Chao Chen (ENG), Dr Bernard Chen (ENG)		Monash Health
75	Associate Professor Bing Wang, Professor Anthony Dart	Wearable cardiac rhythm monitor	Development of a wearable, non-invasive monitor of cardiac rhythm for long term, 24 h monitoring of at risk patients	Professor Wenlong Cheng (ENG)	Associate Professor Bing Wang (AH)	Alfred Health
Musculoskeletal disease
8	Professor Flavia Cicuttini	Hand osteoarthritis	Develop a non-invasive therapy based on high-intensity ultrasound	Professor Sunita Chauhan (ENG), Professor Malin Premaratne (ENG)	Professor Catriona McLean (AH)	Alfred Health
61	Dr Stehphen Tham	Synthetic ligaments	Synthetic ligaments – develop a synthetic material that replicates the properties of normal ligament.	Professor Neil Cameron (Eng)		Monash Health
Regenerative medicine
10	Dr Heather Cleland, Mr Stephen Goldie	Burn injuries	Develop a tissue engineered skin substitute, which will enable rapid and permanent wound closure, as well as functional and aesthetic reconstruction	Professor Neil Cameron (ENG)	Mr Stephen Goldie (AH), Dr Shiva Akbarzadeh (AH), Dr Marisa Herson (AH), Professor Anton Peleg (AH), Dr Ana Traven (MNHS)	Alfred Health
Neural, vision and mental health
3	Associate Professor Winston Chong	Brain aneurysms	Use of computational fluid dynamics to develop a clinical diagnostic tool that assesses risk of rupture of an individual aneurysm	Professor Mark Thompson (ENG)	Leon Tat Lai (MH), Mr Eldho Paul (FMNHS), Professor Yi Qian (Macquarie)	Monash Health
Trauma, emergency and intensive care
32	Professor Dan Lubman	Mental health and addiction	Develop emergency service electronic data analysis system to aid emergency response to overdose, self-harm and acute mental health emergencies	Professor Geoff Webb (FIT), Professor Wray Buntine (FIT), Professor Falk Schreiber (FIT), Dr Christoph Bergmeir (FIT), Mr Matthias Klapperstueck (FIT)	Associate Professor Belinda Lloyd (EHCS, MNHS), Mr Gene Bawden (MADA), Dr Caroline Gao (EHCS, MNHS), Dr Cherie Heilbronn (EHCS, MNHS)	Eastern Health
18	Professor Mark Fitzgerald	Trauma resuscitation	Trauma resuscitation – develop wireless heads-up display for real-time decision support	FIT researchers - algorithm development		Alfred Health
Cancer
31b	Dr Jason Lickliter, Dr Andrew Hayden (Lickliter, Hayden and Suzuki)	Cancer	Utilise advances in nanotechnology to develop novel cancer therapeutics	Professor Kiyonori Suzuki (ENG), Professor Laurence Meagher (ENG), Associate Professor Cordelia Selomulya (ENG)	Professor Magdalena Plebanski (AH)	Alfred Health
69	Dr Stephen Ting	Leukemia stem cell detection	Single cell identification, separation, isolation and assay of bone marrow and leukemia stem cells	Associate Professor Adrian Neild (ENG)		Alfred Health
Kidney disease
25	Professor David Kaye, Professor Karin Jandeleit-Dahm	Chronic kidney disease	Development of a diagnostic device for simultaneous detection of two important biomarkers in chronic kidney disease	Dr Tuncay Alan (ENG)	Professor Ian Smith (MNHS), Professor Mark Sleeman (MATF), Dr Sanjay Kuruppu (MNHS)	Alfred Health
Paediatrics
64	Dr Kenneth Tan	Newborn intensive care	Decision support tool development for care of pre-term infants in intensive care – avoidance of alert fatigue	Associate Professor Vincent Lee (FIT), Ye Lu (ENG)	Mr Dawei Sun (FIT)	Monash Health
Surgical training and instrumentation – paediatrics
42, 44, 47	Mr Ram Nataraja	Surgical training tools and simulators	Training tool development for optimisation of movement economy in surgical procedures	Professor Sunita Chauhan (ENG)	Professor Paul McMenamin (MNHS)	Monash Health
Surgical training and instrumentation
33	Dr Stuart Marshall	Nerve damage	Develop pressure-sensing endotracheal tube to minimise laryngeal nerve damage during thyroid surgery	Dr Jean-Michel Redoute, Dr Mehmet Yuce (ENG)	Dr Jonathan Serpell (AH), Professor Paul Myles (AH), Dr James Lee (Alfred HH)	Alfred Health
Imaging and diagnostics
68	Professor Ken Thomson	Automated diagnostic report analysis	Development of a system to analyse diagnostic reports and provide alerts for significant findings to clinicians	Professor Ingrid Zukerman (FIT), Dr Reza Haffari (FIT)	Associate Professor Karin Verspoor (Uni Melb), Associate Professor Lawrence Cavedon (RMIT)	Alfred Health

Clinical champion

Project title

Short description

Researchers from Eng/IT

Others

Hospital

MIME Student Summer Projects

Cardiovascular and lung disease

77

Dr Tony White

Call to resuscitation by mobile phone

Development of a system identifying and calling cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) trained individuals to attend cardiac events occurring within a 500 m radius via smart phone and GPS

Associate Professor David Taniar (FIT), Dr Maria Indrawan-Santiago (FIT)

Monash Heart

Musculoskeletal

1

Professor Rachelle Buchbinder

Fibromyalgia

Social media analysis of patient experience to develop an online data collection tool

Professor Frada Burstein (FIT), Dr Pari Delir Haghighi (FIT)

Cabrini

Neural, vision and mental health

15

Dr Joanne Enticott

Mental Health

Develop web-based interactive map that provides information on area-based mental health needs

Mr Martin Atchison (FIT)

Monash Health

Review of MIME Stakeholders Meeting

The inaugural MIME Stakeholders Meeting was held on Tuesday, 27 October 2015 at Monash University Caulfield Campus. The meeting was attended by senior members of the University, clinicians, researchers, government representatives, the CSIRO and key industry partners. Much enthusiasm and support from the participants was demonstrated, creating a successful forum to plan MIME's strategic initiatives moving forward and allowing for participants to help shape the future of MIME. A key feature was presentations from two of the successful MIME seed fund project teams.

2015 MIME Showcase Event

We invited 20 senior executive, industry, finance and legal leaders to the first MIME ‘Showcase Event’ on Thursday, November 12 at the Monash Law Chambers in the City of Melbourne. The event was organised by Mr Ed Smith, the Monash Advancement Office and MIME staff. The aim was to highlight MIME and the medical technologies that are being developed by our researchers. We hope that this type of meeting will generate philanthropy or investment in MIME projects. We plan to hold these Showcase events at least once a year.

At this event we were fortunate to have the Professor Frieder Seible, Dean of Engineering and Mr Peter Rogers, Chair of the Monash Engineering Foundation speaking about MIME. We also had three presentations from the Director MIME, Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld on progress in developing the Monash Bionic Vision Device, Professor David Kaye, Senior Cardiologist and Researcher at the Alfred Hospital and the Baker IDI Institute on the community burden of heart disease and new heart devices that he is developing and Professor Paul Fitzgerald from the Alfred Psychiatry Research Institute on a new device he is developing using trans-cranial magnetic stimulation to potentially treat patients with depression and other psychiatric illness. The invited guests showed a great deal of interest in MIME by the questions they posed after the presentations and in the productive informal discussions with MIME staff over wine and cocktails after the event.

Outcome of the 2015 MIME Travel Scholarships

We received a large number of applications for the 2015 MIME Travel Grant Program. The travel grant program was open to PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and early career researchers working on projects that involve medical technologies. The final result was that 20 grants valued at $2,500 were awarded to be used to cover costs towards international conference attendance, visits to key groups for further learning, career development and to establish networks and collaborations with high profile international research groups.

We thank all participants who submitted an application for their time and effort. We extend our congratulations to the successful applicants listed in the table below and look forward to receiving your report after your travel.