Students

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Students make a significant contribution to the research output of the Menzies Research Institute.

There are opportunities for postgraduate, honours and undergraduate students to join the Institute and participate in our world-class research.

POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS

The research topics of PhD and Masters students currently studying at the Institute focus on some of the most common and chronic diseases affecting Australians today, ranging from osteoarthritis to mental illness, nutrition, prostate cancer and neuroscience.

The University of Tasmania offers research scholarships to suitably qualified and highly motivated applicants to undertake PhD or masters studies in the research areas of the Institute.

Applicants may be Australian citizens, permanent residents or international students. International students may be required to pay tuition fees. They should hold at least an upper second class Honours degree or equivalent with a major from a relevant discipline, such as health, social, biological or biomedical science, psychology or mathematics. Applicants must be able to work cooperatively in a multi-disciplinary team.

We currently have projects available for PhD and Masters students in a number of our research programs and projects including:

• Chronic disease and genetic epidemiology
  The Genetics Program conducts research into the underlying genetic causes of disease. There are potential projects available involving the study of genetic control of response to infectious disease, underlying genetic susceptibility to multiple sclerosis, cancers of the blood (leukaemias and lymphomas) and prostate cancer.
  
  
• Neuroscience
  Projects on disorders related to the nervous system including diseases of the brain and nervous system, such as epilepsy, depression, learning difficulties, stroke, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease.

• Immunology and host response to infection
  There are very few diseases that do not involve the immune system, and many therapeutic approaches are aimed at boosting the immune response.  The study of our immune system, known as immunology, has important implications in almost every disease.

• Cancer biology and cancer genetics
  Research is conducted to contribute to the growing body of knowledge on the causes and treatment of many types of cancer.

• Muscle metabolism and diabetes
  Projects to explore the control of muscle metabolism by microvascular perfusion and the present study looking at the effect of the nitric oxide-dependent vasodilator on insulin action in muscle are just two projects in this area.

• Cardiorespiratory Health
  We have a number of potential projects within the broad aims of the study including respiratory health and chronic respiratory diseases. This research involves bronchoscopic assessment and tissue sampling of smokers with normal and abnormal airflow. 

• Bone and Joint Research
  These projects aim to identify factors associated with the development of healthy bones in children and osteoarthritis and osteoporosis as well as other disease such as rheumatoid arthritis in the elderly.
  
  
• Biostatistics
  The Biostatistics group has projects available in a number of areas supporting the genetics program and the analysis of cohort data.

Details on each of these research programs and the project leaders can be found on our Research web page.

More information can be found at www.research.utas.edu.au/gr or contact the University's Graduate Research Unit on (03) 6226 2762, facsimile (03) 6226 7497 or email scholarships@research.utas.edu.au

For additional information contact:

Dr Leigh Blizzard

Graduate Research Coordinator

Telephone: (03) 6226 7719

HONOURS SCHOLARSHIPS

The Menzies Research Institute offers at least three honours scholarships with a value of $5000 each year to students eligible to undertake an honours research program in any area of research undertaken by the Institute.

More information can be found at http://www.studentcentre.utas.edu.au/scholarships/
or contact the University's Graduate Research Unit on (03) 6226 2762, facsimile (03) 6226 7497 or email Tas.Scholarships@utas.edu.au

For additional information contact:

Dr Sue Pearson
Lecturer/Research Fellow
Telephone: (03) 6226 4712

Dr Adele Holloway
Senior Research Fellow
Telephone: (03) 6226 2670

Dr Steve Richards
Senior Research Fellow
Telephone: (03) 6226 2673

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

2008 Australian Cochrane Airways Group Network Student Scholarship

A scholarship of up to $2,000 will be offered to two students enrolled in their first health professional course in 2008, to study Evidence-Based Medicine. The scholarship is designed to support activities of the Cochrane Collaboration, which aims to provide a systematic and up-to-date summary of reliable evidence of the benefits and risks of healthcare.

Applications, addressing the scholarship criteria and including a brief curriculum vitae (cv maximum 2 pages), should be submitted to Richard Wood-Baker at Richard.WoodBaker@utas.edu.au by COB Friday 29 th March. Click here for More information

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program

The Institute's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) is a scheme designed to give undergraduate students at the University of Tasmania an early opportunity to experience real life in a research laboratory and gain insight into careers in biomedical research.

For more information, go to the UROP page.

For additional information contact:

Dr Sue Pearson
UROP Coordinator

Telephone: (03) 6226 4712