Upcoming Student Events

NICM Health Research Institute presents Dr Paola Pedrelli, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School; and Associate in Psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital, United States. Join guest seminar speaker Dr Pedrelli on 10 June, as she discusses how digital phenotyping, using personal digital devices such as smartphones to assess human behaviour, can be used to assess depression.

ABSTRACT

Unlike other fields of medicine, psychiatry does not rely on objective indices to diagnose mental health disorders and to assess symptoms severity. Recent advances in the fields of engineering, computer science, and computational science have led to the development of novel methods to quantify and measure behavioural phenotypes of mental health disorders. In this presentation, Dr Pedrelli will describe the concept of digital phenotyping and outline research measuring depressive symptoms severity by collecting behavioural and physiological data with wearable and mobile sensors.

VENUE: Zoom webinar

COST: Free and open to all

RSVP: Register by visiting the link below.

NICM Health Research Institute presents Professor Christopher Scarlett, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle. Join guest seminar speaker, Professor Scarlett on 19 August, as he discusses novel therapeutic approaches in the treatment of pancreatic cancer. ABSTRACT Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with an abysmal survival rate of approximately 10% at five years. In Australia there were 3,900 new cases and 3,300 deaths in 2020. Current therapies are palliative at best highlighting the urgent need for novel therapeutic agents targeting molecular phenotypes not responsive to current treatments. The highly heterogeneic and metastatic nature of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), a type of pancreatic cancer, presents a major challenge in therapeutic development. Professor Scarlett, along with the Pancreatic Cancer Research Group he leads, are searching on land, at sea, and within the laboratory for potential therapeutic agents targeting molecular mechanisms that contribute to these aggressive, metastatic subtypes. WHEN: Thursday 19 August 2021 TIME: 12.00pm - 1.00pm AEST VENUE: Zoom webinar COST: Free and open to all RSVP: Register by visiting https://nicm.edu.au/news/events