Science In Public
Science writers, communicators, media, training, and public relations
Seventeen scientists, science communicators and wildlife experts are available for interview in Victoria, Northern Territory, NSW, Queensland and Tasmania.
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Winners of the National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia’s Metcalf Prizes announced
Scientists available for interviews
The National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia supports stem cell science and educates the community about the potential and dangers of stem cell therapies.
The winners of the 2016 Metcalf Prizes for Stem Cell Research are:
Read the media release.
The winners will receive their awards at a breakfast ceremony on Wednesday 27 July in Melbourne. Visit the website: stemcellfoundation.net.au
https://www.scienceinpublic.com.au/stemcells/stemcellfoundation
Tracy Heng wants to make cancer treatment gentler and more effective for elderly patients with blood cancer and other blood disorders.
“Bone marrow transplants have transformed survival rates for blood cancers. They replace a diseased blood system with healthy blood-forming cells, but first, doctors have to wipe out a patient’s immune system, which takes a big toll on elderly patients. My goal is to change that,” says Tracy. [Read more…] about Making cancer treatment less aggressive and more effective
James Chong has two starters in the race to develop stem cell therapies for heart failure as viable alternatives to heart transplants. His research is exploring both the potential for transplanted stem cells to regenerate new heart tissue and how to repair a patient’s heart by rejuvenating their own heart stem cells.
“In Australia, 54,000 people suffer a heart attack and 20,000 die from chronic heart failure each year. I want to develop stem cell treatments that can save the lives of the thousands of people who miss out on heart transplants,” says James. [Read more…] about Stem cells healing broken hearts
National science prize for Melbourne hearing aid revolutionary Elaine Saunders
Four million Australians, young and old, need a hearing 
aid. Without one they’re at risk of losing their friends, their partner, their job and their sanity. But price, stigma and the loss of control when we see an audiologist are amongst the factors that stop most people from acting.
Elaine Saunders has changed that for tens of thousands of Australians. [Read more…] about Tens of thousands of Australian lives changed, over three million to go
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Hearing aids are not all the same, despite claims to the contrary, and price is no longer a good indicator of quality.
This is a message from Dr Elaine Saunders, who is today set to receive Australia’s top honour for our leading visionaries, a prestigious ATSE Clunies Ross Award in the Entrepreneur of the Year Category. The award recognises her successful disruption of hearing service provision in Australia. Dr Saunders has made premium hearing aids more accessible by challenging business and pricing models.
[Read more…] about (ATSE media release) Innovation and a thick skin wins out for top science award
The Defence Science and Technology Group (DST) is staging open days at its Melbourne laboratory for industry and academia to showcase innovative technologies being developed to give the Australian Defence Force a capability edge.
The Partnerships Week event (6 to 10 June) is part of DST’s outreach campaign for closer ties with companies, universities and public research organisations to undertake collaborative research projects for Defence capability.
Chief Defence Scientist, Dr Alex Zelinsky, said Partnerships Week was based on the successful event held in Adelaide last year.
“Our industry and university partners have said they value the interaction with our scientists and the opportunity to get involved with the specialist work we do for Australia’s defence and national security,” he said.
The event includes site tours, technology demonstrations, research capability displays, and access to Defence researchers to discuss new and emerging capabilities. [Read more…] about Showcasing innovative defence technologies