October 2019

Professor John Attia from the School of Medicine and Public Health in the Faculty of Health and Medicine, has been awarded the title of Laureate Professor, in recognition of his remarkable research career and outstanding contributions in clinical, molecular, and genetic epidemiology methods, as well as his clinical medicine practice and teaching.

Professor Michael Breakspear joined the University of Newcastle in early-2019 to establish a new brain imaging group at the Hunter Medical Research Institute’s neuroimaging facility.

University of Newcastle Senior Lecturer Dr Hannah Power, along with her research collaborators A/Prof Tom Hubble and Dr Samantha Clarke from the University of Sydney, have been awarded the exciting opportunity to join a transit voyage on the CSIRO research vessel (RV) Investigator.

Select students from ENGL3000 took up an intership to conduct interviews during the National Young Writers' Festival.

University of Newcastle researcher Professor Clare Collins is among 40 new Fellows elected to the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS).

Indonesian graduates from Food Science and Human Nutrition dual degree programOn June 19 this year, Professor Chris Scarlett, Assistant Dean Global Engagement attended the graduation ceremony for two students from Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH) who studied and received degrees from both UON and UPH.

Professor Michael Breakspear leads the Australian chapter of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping."We're developing diagnostic tests for people with mental illness". Michael says. "It’s called Precision Psychiatry. The goal is genetic testing and brain imaging tests; the genetic tests are not that far away"

Dr Hannah Power from the School of Environmental and Life Sciences, along with her research collaborators A/Prof Tom Hubble and Dr Samantha Clarke from the University of Sydney, have recently been awarded the exciting opportunity to join a transit voyage on the CSIRO research vessel (RV) Investigator.

Dr Emma Beckett, B.BiomedSc (Hons), GDip (ClinEpi), MSc.Mngt, PhD (Food Science) has been recognised as an Achiever in the Beryl Nashar Young Researcher Award in the 2019 Alumni Awards.

Faculty research examines the impact of low-frequency radio waves on human cells. In an article published in the Newcastle Herald in July 2019, Dr Geoff De Iuliis, Senior Lecturer, School of Environmental and Life Sciences (Reproductive Medicine) talks about his research into the potential effects of wi-fi and mobile technologies on human cells.

Academic surgeons from across Australia have been awarded more than $780,000 from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) to investigate the causes of surgical site infections and train the next generation of surgical researchers.

A new partnership between Hunter Cancer Biobank based at HMRI and Breast Cancer Trials will boost breast cancer research in the Hunter and beyond.