CET wins government funding for a project exploring AI-driven decision support in organ offering
A project from the CET exploring the role of AI-drive decision support in kidney transplant offering has been awarded funding in the latest round of the Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award. The AI Award is making £140 million available to a number of projects over four years to accelerate the testing and evaluation […]
Read moreProfessor Sir Magdi Yacoub awarded Lister Medal on 28th October.
Sir Magdi Yacoub gave the Lister Oration on October 28 at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, after which he was presented by the Acting President, Mr. Steve Cannon, with the Lister Medal. The oration was entitled “The Glory and Threat of Science and Medicine”. The Lister Medal is awarded every three to five […]
Read moreDPhil for John O’Callaghan
John O’Callaghan has successfully defended his thesis entitled “Evidence based hypothermic preservation of the kidney and liver for transplantation” and has now been notified that he has been awarded the DPhil degree. His work in this area has been outstanding and he has produced a number of critically important papers arising from the work of […]
Read morePeter Morris Inducted into the Research Hall of Fame
The Royal Melbourne Hospital is arguably the major teaching hospital of the University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health now forms a complex not only comprising the Royal Melbourne Hospital, but the Royal Children’s Hospital, the Royal Women’s hospital as well as a number of research institutes (e.g. Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, […]
Read moreOpera music prolongs survival of heart transplants
Masanori Niimi, Teikyo University, Tokyo and his colleagues have been awarded the 2013 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work showing that cardiac allografts in mice survived very much longer if the mice were exposed to La Traviata for 7 days after transplantation. Grafts survived for 26.5 days whereas in the control group the […]
Read moreLasker Prize for transplantation
Sir Roy Calne and Dr Tom Starzl have been awarded the 2012 Lasker Clinical Reserch Prize for their pioneering work in the developement of liver transplantation. This is a very well deserved, and perhaps overdue, award in the field of transplantation.
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