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Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Faculty news and events

Richard Larkins AO Vice ChancellorThe Vice-Chancellor's Ancora Imparo Student Leadership Program
Applications are now open for positions in the 2009 Vice Chancellors Ancora Imparo Student Leadership Program. The aim of the program is to provide students with an understanding of the visionary and inspirational principles that guide current leaders and have guided leaders in the past. For more information please visit  Student Leadership Program, or email leadership.enquires@adm.monash.edu.au

DNA CodeIdentikit for new life: Monash researchers first to use DNA fingerprinting to identify viable embryos
Monash researchers have used DNA fingerprinting for the first time to identify which embryos have implanted after in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and developed successfully to result in the births of healthy babies.

Ruth Maddison, The beginning of absence, 1996, printed 2006, 11 inkjet prints from Polaroid originals, © Ruth Maddison 1996/2006 Snapshots of Mortality
Currently showing at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Reveries: photography and mortality presents images inspired by the cycle of life and death.

Professor James WhisstockMonash researchers recognised with Federation Fellowships
Professor James Whisstock and Associate Professor Trevor Lithgow have been named among the top Australian scientists for the year and awarded a Federation Fellowship.

Professor Pat CroskerryMisdiagnosis and treatment leads to unnecessary deaths
One of the world’s leading experts in human error in patient treatments has told a Monash University lecture that Australian doctors could be misdiagnosing patient conditions in at least 20 per cent of cases.

MATF RobotsThe Robots have Landed
The Monoclonal Antibody Technologies Facility unpacks for business. They are no bigger or more imposing than a family barbecue, but the six new robots that arrived at MATF can together store and produce thousands of monoclonal antibodies for use in scientific research.

Mid-year entry

We are now taking applications for mid-year entry into some Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses.

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Peninsula
Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
at Peninsula:
The Peninsula campus is a dynamic part of Monash University. Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences has an exciting array of courses available at this location.