Research Roundup:
October 2017
Welcome Message
Please be reminded, the Thoracic Society Awards for Research and Career Development are open until the 13th of November. Some awards are new and some are different to previous years. We would like to encourage you to have a look below at the Open Awards and see which ones may help you in your research endeavours.
We would also like to draw your attention to the NHMRC Peer Review Consultation which is now open on the NHMRC Public Consultations Portal. The consultation paper is available here. TSANZ will submit a response to this consultation on behalf of the society and you are encouraged to send in your opinion to the office to ensure our response is representative of our membership. Please let us know your opinion on the NHMRC peer review paper by the 17th of November by responding to hayley.see@thoracic.org.au
Enjoy the October edition of your research roundup. This edition is focused on awards so please delve into the opportunities below as they span many area of research and different career stages.
Prof Phil Hansbro
Prof Sandra Hodge
Co-Chairs, Research Sub-Committee
The following articles will take you to thelimbic.com
TSANZ statement highlights the benefits of multidisciplinary input in ILD
PBS restrictions on COPD meds a nudge towards best practice
Get excited about 50 shades of green
Hundreds of lung cancer cases caused by silica dust
Why neonatal ARDs is a unique clinical entity
Patients need to know the potential risks of montelukast (Singulair)
Open Awards
Thoracic Society Awards
TSANZ Research and Career Development Awards now open
TSANZ Peter Phelan Research Award
TSANZ Indigenous Respiratory Nursing Award
TSANZ / National Asthma Council Australia – Asthma and Airways Fellowship
Boeringher Ingelheim COPD Research Award
Maurice Blackburn Grant-in-Aid for Occupational Lung Disease
TSANZ Rob Pierce Grant-in-Aid for Indigenous Lung Health
TSANZ/LFA CSL Behring Research Award for Alpha-1 anti-trypsin deficiency
Awards close 13 November 2017
For more information visit https://www.thoracic.org.au/researchawards/tsanz-awards
More coming soon!
Lung Foundation Australia Awards
Lung Foundation Australia / Cochrane Airways Australia Scholarship 2018
Lung Foundation Australia and Cochrane Airways Australia invite applications for the Lung Foundation Australia/Cochrane Airways Australia Scholarship 2018 valued at $2,500. This scholarship is intended to assist with the completion, update and/or presentation of a Systematic Review. Cochrane Review Scholarships have been awarded on an annual basis since 2001, and have been highly productive.
A Cochrane review is an ideal topic for an advanced trainee in any health profession, or when initiating a PhD program, as most reviews can be completed within a year. Completed reviews are published on the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Impact Factor 6.124 effective July 2016) and indexed in Medline. Conducting a review provides experience in critical appraisal of the literature, and other aspects of Evidence-Based Medicine.
Re-launched: Lung Foundation Australia and the Better Breathing Foundation Allied Health PhD Scholarship in Chronic Lung Disease – 2018/2021
Valued at $20,000 per year for four years for a full-time student (total funding $80,000) or $10,000 per year for four years for a part-tome student (total funding $40,000). Co-funding from a University is optional but desirable.
Deadline 6 November 2017
Partnership form | Application form
How to participate
Follow the links above to access each award application form and download the information sheet.
Please email the TSANZ Awards Coordinator with any questions, comments or enquires.
Watch this space for more award announcements…
TSANZ Awards by Nomination
Deadline midnight AEDT Sunday 29 October
The Society Medal was conceived as an acknowledgment of excellence in fields other than research, i.e. for the advancement of the practice of thoracic medicine in its widest sense by outstanding teaching or advocacy.
The Research Medal
The Research Medal is awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions to the advancement of knowledge in respiratory medicine or science carried out primarily in Australia or New Zealand. The award recognises an individual who has demonstrated sustained excellence in their field of research.
The 50th Anniversary Medal for Education & Training
The 50th Anniversary Medal for Education & Training was introduced in 2011 to mark the Society’s 50th Anniversary. The 50th Anniversary Medal is awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions to respiratory education and training in Australia or New Zealand. The award recognises an individual who has demonstrated sustained excellence in education and training.
This might take the form of formal and informal teaching within a university, hospital or other health care setting; curriculum development at an undergraduate or postgraduate level; using research to enhance the efficacy of educational activities; career mentoring of junior members of the Society; integration of teaching into clinical practice; or advocacy on behalf of medical education as applied to respiratory medicine.
New NHMRC grant program public consultation on peer review
NHMRC invites submissions to its consultation paper on peer review in the new grant program. Submissions close 5:00pm (AEDT) on Monday 4 December 2017.
To complement the consultation paper, NHMRC is hosting a series of public forums across Australia between 29 September and 24 November 2017 on elements of peer review. Registrations are currently being accepted.
TSANZ will submit a response to this consultation on behalf of the society and you are encouraged to send in your opinion to the office to ensure our response is representative of our membership. Please let us know your opinion on the NHMRC peer review paper by the 17th of November by responding to hayley.see@thoracic.org.au
Grant Bulletin
This grant bulletin contains direct-to-researcher grants and awards due in 2017:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations Round 20 – closes 08/11/17
Early-stage innovative research projects from a range of disciplines and regions. The challenges for Round 20 are: Healthy Minds for Adolescent Mothers: Achieving Healthy Outcomes for the Family; Innovations for Integrated Diagnostics Systems; Novel Approaches for Improving Timeliness of Routine Immunisation Birthdose and Healthcare Worker Skill in Low-Resource Settings.
Integra Underground Community Investment – closes 01/12/17
Funding is provided for the following focus areas: Capacity Building, including education/training, enterprise development, and economic diversification; Health; Environment.
Pro Bono Australia – Impact 25 Awards (2017) – closes 01/12/17
Award to name the year’s most influential people who have made a significant and positive impact. Nominees should embody the principles of integrity, initiative, foresight, and collaboration.
Auswide Community Grants Scheme – closes 01/12/17.
Supports local activities, organisations, events and projects covering a wide range of sporting, cultural and community interests and endeavours. Includes community services, events and celebrations, buildings, public spaces and facilities, research, and organisational development.
Australian Respiratory Council Harry Windsor Research Grants Scheme – closes 07/12/17
For projects which address research in tuberculosis, respiratory diseases due to other infections, or respiratory diseases related to tobacco use. Within these categories, projects examining TB/HIV, community issues or the health of disadvantaged groups that relate to the work that the ARC undertakes within Australia and the Pacific Region are particularly encouraged. The proposals can encompass clinical research, public health research or basic scientific research. Grants are available for projects submitted to the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) which are considered fundable but which do not reach the cut-off mark for funding in any one year.
Perpetual Trustees 2018 IMPACT Philanthropy Application Program – closes 08/12/17
Perpetual distributes to all sectors including social welfare, health, medical research, conservation and environment, education, and arts and culture. As is consistent with Perpetual’s IMPACT Philanthropy Application Program process, an organisation’s submission will be assessed against Leadership, Capability, Strategy and Outcomes. Further 2018 information will be released later in 2017.
Allen Foundation Grants (2018) – closes 31/12/17
Priorities are: to fund relevant nutritional research; to support programs for the education and training of mothers during pregnancy and after the birth of their children; to assist in the training of persons to work as educators and demonstrators of good nutritional practices; to encourage the dissemination of information regarding healthful nutritional practices and habits; in limited situations to make grants to help solve immediate emergency hunger and malnutrition problems.
Rolling Grants
John Templeton Foundation
Interest areas are: science and the big questions; character virtue development; freedom and free enterprise; exceptional cognitive talent and genius; genetics; voluntary family planning.
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Travel Grants
Grants for non-European researchers to travel to Europe for up to three months to pursue an experimental project in basic biomedical research.
Baxalta Bioscience Grants – Medical Education & Fellowship Grants
Baxalta provides Medical Education & Fellowship Grants to support accredited or unaccredited educational symposia, seminars, web-based sessions, or fellowship programs directed at certified healthcare professionals. They are currently interested in supporting the following areas: Immunology; Hematology; Oncology.
The Balnaves Foundation
The Balnaves Foundation supports organisations that aim to create a better Australia through education, medicine and the arts with a focus on young people, the disadvantaged, and Indigenous communities.
Research Project and Survey Requests
Current Opinions of Severe Asthma Specialists on the Utility of Biomarkers for the Management of Corticosteroid Treatment: A Survey
If you are an Australian clinician involved in the care of patients with severe asthma, we would be very grateful if you could complete a brief questionnaire.
We would ideally like to sample opinions from specialists involved in the care and management of patients with severe asthma. This is the first round of a multi-national Delphi process to reach a consensus and there will be follow-up questions based on the answers we receive from round one (with likely three rounds in total).
A strategy to optimize corticosteroid use in the severe asthma population using biomarkers is currently being investigated. Professors Peter Wark and Jodie Simpson at the University of Newcastle, Australia are looking at an algorithm to adjust corticosteroid dose using exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO), and peripheral blood eosinophils. This survey is being conducted by them, and will also be part of a Research Masters degree by Dr. James Michael Ramsahai. As part of this project, we would like to seek your views on some aspects of biomarker based corticosteroid adjustment in severe asthma.
For more details, please see the attached information statement. Please note that completion of the survey will imply consent to participate, and for the data collected to be used for analysis. You may withdraw at any time.
If you agree to participate, please follow the link to complete the survey
http://selectsurvey.hnehealth.nsw.gov.au/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=l6M2m5m3
Thank you,
Peter Wark
Jodie Simpson
J. Michael Ramsahai JamesMichael.Ramsahai@uon.edu.au
Case Management of Venous thromboembolism
Many thanks for your time in completing this short survey, which should take no longer than 5 minutes. At St. John of God, we are exploring the management of VTE in patients with or without malignancy and in the perioperative setting.
We appreciate there are a large number of guidelines, many of which can be contradictory in their recommendation. Irrespective of this, we would greatly value your feedback on how you would manage the following cases, recognising that several answers may be appropriate.
This survey consists of 4 short cases which will cover a range of clinical scenarios with regards the management of VTE in the immediate post-operative and preoperative period, as well as the management of VTE in the setting of suspected and confirmed solid organ malignancy.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/IVCFilter
All results are completely anonymised and your participation is greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Prof Eli Gabbay egabbay@respiratorywest.com.au
Dr Philip Craven
Australian Society for Medical Research National Scientific Conference
Held in Sydney, at the Charles Perkins Centre, from November 14th to 15th, 2017 the NSC has an exciting new design all packed up in a shorter format.
In these highly competitive times, the NSC 2017 will fulfil an important yet unmet need for early to mid career health and medical researchers.
Entitled “Science and Survival – equipping you with the tools to further your research career” the aims of the conference are:
- To empower and inspire our present and future scientific leaders.
- To provide a springboard for early to mid-career researchers to showcase their research.
- To promote scientific excellence, collaboration and transdisciplinary research.
- To upskill in grantsmanship and understand the promotion process.
We are very excited about the new format of NSC 2017 with both scientific presentations and visionary professional development workshops.
Conference highlights
Mock GRP session with all the elements of a GRP and the perspective of a narrator.
Inside the scientist studio – Norman Swan interviews Nobel Prize Winner Professor Peter Doherty.
Politics of promotion to provide invaluable insights into the intricate and necessary journey to Associate Professorship.
The Edwards Orator is Distinguished Professor Jagadish Chennupati from ANU. A stellar transdisciplinary researcher and a nanotechnology pioneer. He is also a charismatic leader and mentor who will inspire our participants.
Dr Bon-Kyoung Koo from the University of Cambridge will deliver the Firkin Oration. Dr Koo is an ascending star in stem cell research and a world leading researcher in the experimental dissection of human stomach development – all generated from stem cells.
ASMR Peter Doherty Leading Lights Award. This year ASMR will launch a new award aimed at recognising the outstanding contributions of Australian mid-career researchers.
The Networking and Mentoring Breakfast. A unique opportunity for students in particular to share their concerns and ask questions of experienced mentors.