Dismantling barriers and chasing dreams with the Dylan Alcott Foundation
Meet UOW’s Dylan Alcott Foundation scholars
Diving into marine life mysteries with UOW’s MAVE Lab
Uncovering the work of the Marine Vertebrate Ecology Lab
Celebrating women in engineering
UOW graduates share their stories.
Transforming microfinance for women's empowerment
A call for structural change
Counting down to UOWs campus opening in India
Q&A with Campus Director Nimay Kalyani
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The Stand exists to unlock the knowledge and expertise inside the University of Wollongong (UOW), telling stories about our people and their accomplishments that inform, educate and inspire. This magazine was born out of a renewed sense of place, purpose and values that will guide the University in fulfilling its role in exploring how to resolve society’s large and complex social, environmental and economic challenges.
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Articles
Health and Medicine, Science and Technology
Can machines see things your doctor can’t?
Diagnosis and screening is integral to a clinicians’ workflow and professional identity. Authority and responsibility to diagnose conditions and interpret test results has traditionally belonged uniquely to clinicians. But some say this is about to change.
Health and Medicine
New anti-viral drugs to combat herpes
Dr Gökhan Tolun and Distinguished Professor Antoine van Oijen, both from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, Molecular Horizons and IHMRI, have been granted $636,368 from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) over three years for their project, “Revealing the molecular mechanistic details of viral DNA recombination towards developing novel anti-viral drugs”.
Health and Medicine
Refine, Reduce and Replace the use of animals in research
An in vitro testing model to better understand and treat skin infections in humans will not only reduce animal testing but also be more accurate. The 3Rs Research Grant recipient Dr Diane Ly will be aiming to reduce and eventually replace the use of rodents normally used in this type of research.
Health and Medicine
The two of us: Eden Barrett and Eleanor Beck
The University of Wollongong (UOW) has so many high achieving PhD students, working towards solving real world problems. Behind every great PhD candidate is a great supervisor (or two). We hear from both to understand their perspective of the post graduate journey.
Health and Medicine
Identifying mutations in cancer cells
Professor Marie Ranson and A/Prof. Bruce Ashford have been funded by the NHMRC to work on a project to identify specific mutations in cancer cells which could be used to more reliably predict metastasis in skin cancer.
Alumni
The changing face of medicine
We hear from four medical researchers on the way COVID-19 has affected public health and the future of medicine.