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Research in the Department of Medicine


Timeline of research projects (pdf)

Photos of research activities


 Photos of research activities

A gallery of photos from 50 years of research in the Department of Medicine.
Click on the images below for an enlarged view.

 

Research staff measuring the effect of posture on blood pressure through the use of a specially constructed tilting bed within the Department of Medicine in 1957.
  Testing a patient's lung capacity in the Department of Medicine in 1958.
  The electron microscope in the University Department of Medicine in 1964. It provided magnification of up to one million times and cost £17,000 following a grant from the Wellcome Foundation.
  The Department of Medicine’s Dr Richard Larkins and Laboratory Technician, Lilly Simenova, in 1972 conducting research into diabetes using a strain of mice that develop obesity, leading to the observation that increasing weight gain can affect the nature of the pancreas’ response to different stimuli.
   Professor Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, c.1978.
  Long-time staff member, Associate Professor J.R.E. Fraser, in the laboratory, c.1989.
  The Department of Medicine’s Dr Len Harrison in 1980.
   

Dr Ken Muirden treating a patient in 1981.

  Quantitating enzyme activity in rheumatoid arthritic patients in the Department of Medicine in 1983.
 

Dr Ross Bury measuring drug levels in patients within the Department of Medicine’s laboratories in 1983.

 

The Department of Medicine's ‘Brown’s Corner’ in 1984, where technical assistants Kerry Brown and Tracey Brown assist with research on viruses and arthritis, in particular the culture of the lining cells of joints and hyaluronic acid.

  Professor Richard Larkins, Dr Marjorie Dunlop and Dr Michael Hill in 1987. The researchers from the Department of Medicine were studying the early changes in diabetic kidney disease and diabetic disease of the small blood vessels.
  Professor Graham Young and research assistants examining microscopic changes in the development of large bowel cancer in 1992.
 

Collaboration between the Department of Medicine and the RMH Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology with Associate Professor Joe Proietto and Dr Anne Thornburn in 1997.

 

Department of Medicine staff and guest in 2005: Ms Vesna Markovska (Honorary Research Fellow), Mr Nick Christopher (Department Manager), Professor James Angus (Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne), Ms Margaret Chang (Postgraduate Student), Professor Graham Brown (Head of the Department of Medicine), and Professor John Hamilton (Senior Principal Research Fellow).

Senior Research Fellow, Nigel Jones, from the Department of Medicine’s Epilepsy and Neuropharmacology Unit undertaking investigations into psychiatric disturbance in epilepsy models, 2007. 

 

 

    

 



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