TRI Digital Comms and Marketing Officer Carla interviews QUT Intern Carly Booth and Clinician Researcher Dr Ingrid Hickman about their plans for the podcast series and the importance of bridge careers in nutrition healthcare. The trio discuss the challenges involved for researchers and clinicians in bridging the communication gap to the general public, suggesting that future career paths will include bridge roles requiring both communication and science skills.

The Intern Series - Bridge Careers In Translational Research

In this episode of The Intern Series, QUT Intern Carly Booth and Clinician Researcher Dr Ingrid Hickman discuss the progression of liver disease from obesity to insulin resistance, fatty liver, cirrhosis and transplant. Dr Hickman explains this process from a dietetics perspective, highlighting the importance of nutrition in the treatment and management of liver disease.

The Intern Series - Liver Disease & Dietetics Research

The Intern Series takes a slightly different direction this week with a special guest, Ena Music, who talks to intern Carly Booth about her work in communicating stem cell research. Ena is a PhD student at TRI who recently won a contest from visual animation company Animated Biomedical Productions to produce an animation which will explain the process of collecting storing stem cells. Ena is the Brisbane organiser of Pint of Science, a regular Tweeter, TRI social media club member and an all around champion of science communication.

The Intern Series - Communicating stem cell research

Clinical trials are essential practice within the research space, particularly here at the Translational Research Institute with 2 clinical research facilties - one at the PA Hospital and another at the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital. In this podcast QUT Intern Carly Booth and Clinician Researcher Dr Ingrid Hickman discuss the critical role that nutrition and dietetics plays within the clinical trial process.

The Intern Series - Dietetics, Nutrition and Clinical Trials

The potential beneficial role of coffee consumption for preventing progressive liver disease, known as liver cirrhosis, has received quite the reception in the media recently. In this podcast Ingrid delves into the latest research around the topic, including a recent systematic review and meta analysis, from which claims were made that two cups of coffee a day can halve the risk of developing liver cirrhosis.

The Intern Series - Is Coffee Protective of Liver Cirrhosis?

Dietary Methodology In Clinical Research From Blue Zone Diets To The Mediterranean Diet. In this podcast QUT Intern Carly Booth and Clinician Researcher Dr Ingrid Hickman explore the ways in which dietary methodologies are measured and used in clinical research. Discussing all things from Blue Zone Diets to the popular Mediterranean Diet, Ingrid highlights what we can learn from different cuisines and how they may be of benefit to clinical research.

The Intern Series - Dietary Methodology In Clinical Research

Moving to UQDI at TRI this year from Victoria, Dr Chris Slape is a blood cancer researcher. While his main area of expertise is Leukaemia, we put Chris on the spot to ask him about another blood cancer, "Myeloma". Carly and Chris discuss the importance of accuracy in reporting medical science and the roles of researcher and journalist in the process while we get to know a bit about the work Chris does in his lab.

The Intern Series - Blood Cancer

The 2017 Climb For Cancer teams are getting ready to climb 810 stairs, so we took the opportunity to get to know a few of the climbers from our 11 teams. This interview features the Naevi Centre for Research Excellence team who are part of the University of Queensland's Faculty of Medicine based here at TRI, conducting skin cancer research specifically into moles and melanoma. Meet the Naevi Ending Story team in this podcast interview or find out more at www.tri.edu.au/ClimbForCancer

Climb For Cancer 2017 - Meet Naevi Ending Story

The 2017 Climb For Cancer teams are getting ready to climb 810 stairs, so we took the opportunity to get to know a few of the climbers from our 11 teams. This interview features the ResistoBreaks team who are part of the University of Queensland's Dermatology Research Centre (UQDRC) based here at TRI, conducting skin cancer research specifically into skin cancer drug resistance. Meet the Resistobreaks team in this podcast interview or find out more at www.tri.edu.au/ClimbForCancer

Climb For Cancer 2017 - Meet Resistobreaks

Emily introduces you to TRI PhD candidate, Nathan Tosh, and learns about his work in radiology, PTSD and adolescent brain development. The team are working to develop MRI technologies which detect chemical changes in the brain, with the goal of diagnosing PTSD and brain changes earlier, and more accurately.

Interview - Nathan Tosh

The Translational Research Institute Australia (TRI) is a medical research facility working directly with hospitals and clinicians to use the latest scientific discoveries for better treatments and cures. We house more than 800 researchers under 4 partners - The University of Qld (UQ), The Qld University of Technology (QUT), Mater Medical Research and Metro South Health. Our podcasts aim to introduce you to the diverse research work underway by TRI based researchers in diseases and conditions such as diabetes, skin cancer, prostate cancer, arthritis, autoimmune diseases and PTSD.

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