The ASMR advocates for health & medical research for a healthy, equitable future. Tweets: @rockatscientist @ivybarratt
The Bill remains only to be voted on by the Senate before it will severely impact on Universities, academics, students and the sector. The ASMR has serious concerns regarding the Bill and how it will adversely affect health + medical research in Australia
Dr Nunki Hassan @NunkiHassan is the co-convenor of NSW ASMR. She is currently a Research Officer at the @KidsCancerInst and an associate lecturer @UNSW. She is passionate about cancer research and spreading awareness about medical research to the community. 
We will hear from investigators who have been successful with both EL1 and EL2 fellowships :
Training in the performing arts after graduating high school and working both onstage and behind the scenes in the theatre industry, medical research wasn’t an obvious destination.
Meet Michelle Forgione @ForgioneAu. 
The meeting was scheduled to be held in Melbourne, however, due to the restrictions on in-person gatherings and travel (not part of our 2020 vision...) we are now hosting an online event to ensure we still all get a chance to "meet"
The inception of the MRFF gave us two sources of government funding for health and medical research – the @nhmrc grants (which are expertly managed) and the MRFF.
2h on YouTube is no substitute for the knowledge of experts with decades of medical or scientific education, a century of fervent progressive research and refinement, stringent quality control, and huge advances in technology.
Through our advocacy, the @nhmrc budget doubled in 1999 and 2006.
For almost a century, the @nhmrc has overseen the distribution of research funding in Australia, using a series of robust processes that are directly underpinned by transparency and peer review.
The coagulation system prevents the body from bleeding after injury, but what you might not know is this system continuously develops with age. This means children & adults have different risks of blood clotting + bleeding. This alters how they react to blood-thinning medications
Through our advocacy, the @nhmrc budget doubled in 1999 and 2006.
Over one quarter of Australian children are obese or overweight. What can we learn from science to reduce this alarming statistic?
Including a Presidents report from A/Prof Christoph Hagemeyer @cehagemeyer of @MonashUni about the advocacy work we do for our members and the entire Australian health and medical research workforce
We, the ASMR, are Australia's peak body representing health and medical researchers, call upon the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition to commit to bipartisan support of further investment into health and medical research to adequately maintain the research pipeline.
While our immune system is important for eliminating harmful foreign molecules and/or pathogens (like the virus causing COVID-19), it is equally important that it does not attack our own cells and organs (which is what occurs in autoimmune diseases).
Our blood is composed of red blood cells, in charge of carrying oxygen; and white blood cells, whose main function is to help the immune response to fight infections and diseases.