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Can parasitic worms protect against type 2 diabetes?
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Researchers at the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM) and the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention at James Cook University are collaborating to infect people with worms to trial their effectiveness in preventing type 2 diabetes. | |
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Common virus the key to early detection of a cancer
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Professor Denise Doolan’s research team at AITHM have identified a subset of 14 antibodies that predict, with high accuracy, an individual’s risk of developing nasopharyngeal carcinoma - an infection-related cancer. | |
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Innovative research supported
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AITHM’s Dr Severine Navarro is the first to be funded by a new $5 million research centre announced today by the Children’s Hospital Foundation.
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Current allergy testing can help identify potential causes for allergic reactions, but often do not provide a reliable guide on the severity of the reaction. This study, being conducted by researchers from James Cook University’s Molecular Allergy Research Laboratory in collaboration with Professor Dianne Campbell from The Children’s Hospital in Westmead, Sydney, will help to identify, confirm or exclude potential triggers, narrow down specific allergens and identify the severity of the reaction prior to it occurring.
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Construction of AITHM’s new facility in Cairns has been completed and the building has been occupied from 22 March 2018. The official opening of the building is scheduled for 30 April 2018. |
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The SSI/ISID Infectious Diseases Research Fellowship Program
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The SSI/ISID Infectious Diseases Research Fellowship Program, jointly sponsored by the International Society for Infection Diseases (ISID) and the Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases (SSI), is now accepting applications for a one-year multidisciplinary clinical and laboratory training at select biomedical institutions in Switzerland.
The SSI/ISID Fellowship Program supports infectious disease physicians and scientists from under-resourced countries or Eastern Europe. Opportunities are available for training and research in a variety of areas ranging from basic studies of the mechanism of disease to studies in public health, epidemiology, diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccine development.
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Tropical Medicine & Infectious Disease
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Tropical Medicine & Infectious Disease is the official journal of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine. The journal was launched in 2016, and it is planned to apply to have the journal listed in PubMed and Scopus this year.
The journal is running a special issue on “Medical Geography of Tropical Infections: Disease Patterns in a Changing Environment”, with Colleen Lau, Ricardo Soares Magalhaes, and Nicholas Clark as guest editors.
Please consider submitting a paper to this special issue, or to the journal in general.
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Short Course: Epidemiological evaluation of vaccines: efficacy, safety and policy
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The overall aim of this short course is to provide an understanding of the methods used in the evaluation of vaccines; from early human trials through to assessment of population impact and policy. |
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2018 Seminar Series – information on how to request a speaker
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The AITHM Seminar Series is focused on the exchange of research in the field of tropical health and medicine and we are calling for suggestions for potential seminar speakers for 2018.
Information on how to nominate a speaker for the AITHM Seminar Series can be found on the AITHM website.
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Peter Westwood
Mr Peter Westwood has commenced as Head, AITHM Operations.
Peter brings with him a wealth of knowledge and expertise with over 22 years working in the administration and management of large educational institutions.
Peter joins AITHM from New South Wales where he has been Centre Manager for the University Centre for Rural Health at the University of Sydney, and prior to this was Executive Officer for the Griffith University Health Group. These roles have included oversight and executive leadership, planning and establishment of new academic programs and schools, and leadership of health clinics and research initiatives. Peter holds an MBA with first class honours, awarded in 2002 from Griffith University.
Throughout his executive career, Peter has gained significant skills in negotiation, management, research and analysis, as well as experience in organisational budgeting, financial modelling and demonstrated success in securing external funding. |
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David Pattinson
Dr David Pattinson has joined AITHM as Research Fellow (Infectious Diseases Immunology) and will be working with a consortium of researchers and product developers in Europe, the USA, and Africa on a European Union Horizon 20:20 funded programme of antigen discovery science linked to rapid clinical development of new vaccine candidates against malaria. David is based in Cairns.
David completed his Doctorate of Philosophy (Molecular Immunology) working on novel vaccine platforms for malaria in Professor Doolan’s group at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, together with Anton Middelburg at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. He then undertook a postdoctoral research Blood Stage Vaccines group at the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
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Oyelola Adegboye
Dr Oyelola Adegboye has commenced as Research Fellow, Clinical Research with Professor Damon Eisen’s research group and will be investigating data from patients hospitalised due to infectious diseases at the Townsville Hospital.
With a background in biostatistics, disease mapping, epidemiology, correlated and multi-level modelling with applications in population- and public- health studies as well as strong programming skills, Oyelola is particularly interested in public health and joins us from Qatar University, where he has most recently been working with network models for highly infectious diseases.
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Katie Tungatt
Dr Katie Tungatt has commenced as a Research Officer with Professor John Miles’ research group. Katie has come to us from Cardiff University, U.K., having recently completed her PhD. Katie’s PhD project encompassed working with both human and porcine T-cells. The former involved improving the detection of clinically relevant human T-cells by peptide-MHC multimers. The latter, researched T-cell responses to influenza in pigs. |
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Jana Dwyer
Jana Dwyer has commenced as the senior animal technician at AITHM, Cairns. AITHM has joined us from The University of Queensland, and brings with her a wealth of knowledge in regards to working with and breeding genetically modified mice in an SPF barrier facility.
She has six years’ experience working in different types of facilities from high barrier SPF, to low barrier and conventional type facilities, and is also a qualified Vet nurse. |
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Mara Faulkner
Mara Faulkner has commenced a six month contract at AITHM Cairns as Administrative Officer, and has extensive administrative experience. |
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AITHM Cairns Official Opening
30 April 2018 |
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