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Session 1: Opening, Welcome to Country and Keynote Addresses
- Opening - The Hon Mark Butler MP
- Extraordinary Opportunities - Sir Mark Walport
- Immunity to Influenza - Laureate Professor Peter Doherty
- Mr Simon McKeon
- Dr Susan Alberti
Announcement
Session 2: Improving Indigenous health through health and medical research
- The Hon Warren Snowdon MP
- Voices from the Centre of the Fringe: Chronic Disease in Indigenous Australians - Dr Alex Brown
NHMRC, 75 Years Young
Session 3: Building national wealth through innovation and new industries
- Dr Chris Roberts
- Translating Basic Biomedical Research in Australia: Opportunities and challenges - Professor Ian Frazer
- Australian Medicines industry – Supporting the Nation’s Health and Wealth: Mr Will Delaat
- Benefiting from Health and Medical Research: Improving Patient Care - Dr Anna Lavelle
Session 4: Benefiting from health and medical research - improving patient care
- Dogs, Dermis and Dementia: Regeneration and Degeneration in Man’s Best Friend - Professor Michael Valenzuela
- Epigenomics in Clinical and Preclinical Diagnosis - Professor Emma Whitelaw
- Unravelling how malaria parasites make red blood cells their home - Dr Tania de Koning-Ward
- “Bragging rights” - Professor Jenny Martin
Session 5: Benefiting from health and medical research - improving patient care
- Mendel’s Long tail: the impact of mis-sense mutations on immunity - Professor Christopher Goodnow
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The novel Tfh cell subset: key to resistance against infection, effective vaccines and autoantibodymediated
autoimmune diseases - Professor Carola Vinuesa - Follicular helper T cells: At the interface of animal models and human studies - Dr Di Yu
- Translation of Basic Medical Research: the early stages - Professor James Whisstock
Session 6: Improving policy and practice in the health system
- Improving Research’s Useability and Use - Professor Paul Glasziou
- Improving Translation of Research into Policy and Practice: completing the circle - Professor Helena Teede
- Health services research: “the brains of the health system” - Professor Jane Hall
Session 7: Mental health and dementia
- Can we predict who will develop bipolar disorder? - Professor Philip Mitchell
- Delivering depression and anxiety prevention interventions through the internet - Professor Helen Christensen
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Activation of different neurogenic precursor populations in the hippocampus: potential for dementia and
depression therapy - Professor Perry Bartlett - Dementia: A national health priority - Professor Henry Brodaty
- From bench to clinic: antidepressant-induced weight gain - Professor Julio Licinio
Session 8: Improving prevention and public health
- Skin cancer prevention research: goals, opportunities, challenges - Professor Adèle Green
- Professor Josephine Forbes
- Climate Change and Human Health: Understanding Present and Future Risks - Professor Anthony McMichael
Session 9: Future of health and medical research: challenges and opportunities
- Dr Francis Collins
- Dr Alain Beaudet
- Dr Ruxandra Draghia-Akli
- Dr Depei Lui
- Dr Robin Olds
- Professor Mats Ulfendahl
- Dr Xuetao Cao
- Dr Jiarui Wu
- Professor Tasuku Honjo
- Professor Iain Mattaj
- Dr Bela Shah
- Sir Mark Walport
Closing Session: Thinking about the future