An experience inspiring a career in medicine

When Soumi Gopalakrishnan was five years old, she had an open heart surgery that changed her life.

Read Soumi's story

Research

Canberra Brain Cancer Collaborative, headed by Professor Leonie Quinn and her team, created the biobank using the $300,000 grant awarded at the 2022 Research Innovation Fund funding round.

Research projects

This repository shows a sample of science, health and medicine research at ANU. Visit our research school websites for more detail.
An illustration of a brain

30 Aug 2023

Developing research suggests transcranial magnetic stimulation could help autism, ADHD and OCD

Since the start of the COVID pandemic, there has been more attention given to problems of mental ill-health including depression than ever before. A new therapeutic option, especially for depression, transcranial magnetic stimulation, is slowly helping to address some of these considerable unmet needs in our community.

Professor Leonie Quinn (L) and ACT Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith (R) in a lab of the John Curtin School of Medical Research

28 Aug 2023

Innovative research improving brain cancer treatment

Canberra Brain Cancer Collaborative, headed by Professor Leonie Quinn and her team, created the biobank using the $300,000 grant awarded at the 2022 Research Innovation Fund funding round.

Event banner: Mad knowledges and user-led research: a conversation.

5.30–7.30pm 28 September 2023

Mad Knowledges and User-Led Research - A Conversation

Diana Rose and Michelle Banfield will be in discussion about Diana’s book Mad Knowledges and User Led Research (Palgrave, 2022) which combines theory, research and activism around 'madness' and proposes the conditions needed to address the development of Mad epistemologies.

3pm 29 September 2023

Environmental Protection and Reconciliation in the Solomon Islands: A Case Study

Join us at a special seminar featuring acclaimed scientist, explorer and conservationist, Professor Tim Flannery. Professor Flannery's presentation promises to shed light on critical aspects of biodiversity conservation and reconciliation in the Solomon Islands.