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NHMRC Tracker May 2nd 2008
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National Health and Medical Research Council Meeting
Minister for Health and Ageing Nicola Roxon attended the NHMRC’s 170th Session on Thursday 24th April. Information on the 170th session will shortly be on the NHRMC website, as the first of our regular post-Council meeting communiqués.
Applications for Group Leaders at European Molecular Biology Laboratory
A call for applications is open for Group Leaders at the EMBL laboratories. The positions are available for 5 years Europe / 4 years Australia, supported in part by NHMRC.
Further information in PDF format is available from the EMBL website here.
The closing date for applications is May 16, 2008.
NHMRC announces new NICS Fellows
On 29 April NHMRC announced the 2008 NICS Fellowships awarded to 10 promising Australian health care professionals identified as future leaders in evidence implementation and knowledge transfer. More information about the 2008 NICS Fellowships is available at the NHMRC-NICS website.
Evidence-Practice Gaps Report Volume 1: A review of developments 2004 – 2007
NHMRC has released a review of its Evidence-Practice Gaps Report Volume 1. The report can be downloaded from the NHMRC-NICS website.
This new publication was launched on 3 April in Melbourne by Professor James Best, Chair of NHMRC’s Research Committee, at an event to mark the first anniversary of NICS’ merger with NHMRC.
NHMRC Complaints Policy & NHMRC Service Charter
NHMRC has a policy on how it investigates complaints about the services of the office, the results associated with peer review or allegations of scientific fraud and ethical breaches.
All complaints will be centrally received, registered and tracked to ensure they are handled effectively and efficiently. When appropriate, the CEO will be able to call on the advice of the new External Review Panel, a group of qualified and distinguished experts in their field.
The NHMRC Service Charter is our commitment to providing timely, considerate and reliable service to our stakeholders.
Download Great Minds in Health
Subscribe to our new podcast series and you can download conversations with some of the great minds in Australian medical research.
This week, Professor Barry Marshall, from the University of Western Australia and 2005 Nobel Prize winner for his work with Robin Warren on the role of Helicobacter pylori, in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease, talks about growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, how he became interested in studying medicine, and the discovery of a germ that lives in the stomach and causes ulcers.
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