Sunday 12 July 2015

New Papers

Have been accepted for the IEEE BigDataSecurity conference in New York and for the IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration in San Francisco.

Tuesday 28 April 2015

New paper

A new paper involving MEG & CSIRO has just been accepted for the IEEE Cloud Conference 2015 in New York.  (14% acceptance rate)

C. Wise, C. Friedrich, S. Nepal, S. Chen, R.O. Sinnott, CloudDocs: Secure Scalable Document Sharing on Public Clouds, IEEE Cloud Conference 2015, New York, USA, July 2015.



Media coverage

The Melbourne eResearch Group are the IT providers for the ENDIA study (www.endia.org.au) that has recently received significant further funding from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and the Helmsley Charitable Trust. This recently received quite a lot of national TV coverage:

Nine News Adelaide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRJMUFC8B5I
Seven News Adelaide: https://au.news.yahoo.com/qld/video/watch/27383707/women-and-babies-hold-key-to-diabetes-cure/#page1
Nine News Melbourne: http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/04/27/18/25/researchers-to-shadow-1400-mums-and-babies-in-thorough-diabetes-study
Seven News Melbourne: https://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/video/watch/27383784/study-to-examine-cause-of-childhood-diabetes/#page1

Sunday 29 March 2015

New papers

Two new papers have recently been published in the health domain by the Melbourne eResearch Group. These are:

R.O. Sinnott, J. Han, W. Hu, K. Yu, X. Ma, Application of Mobile Games to Support Clinical Data Collection for Niemann-Pick Disease, 28th IEEE International Conference on Computer Based Medical Systems, Sao Paolo, Brazil, June 2015.

S. Kanwal, A. Lonie, R.O. Sinnott, C. Anderson, Challenges of Large-scale Biomedical Workflows on the Cloud – A Case Study on the Need for Reproducibility of Results, 28th IEEE International Conference on Computer Based Medical Systems, Sao Paolo, Brazil, June 2015.


...and

The Melbourne eResearch Group are the technology providers for the NHMRC funded ($2.5m) Centre for Research Excellence in Protection of Pancreatic Beta Cells also lead by the University of Adelaide.

More grants

The Melbourne eResearch Group have been successful in the Horizon2020 ENSAT-HT grant. This is an ~$12m project that builds upon the work of the highly successful ENSAT-CANCER project (which has 66 centres involved globally and supports over 20 major international clinical trials!). The Melbourne eResearch Group are the primary software infrastructure providers of this grant.

Tuesday 23 December 2014

new grant

Melbourne eResearch Group are involved as the technology/platform providers for the Department of the Environment funded $8.8m Clean Air and Urban Landscapes project. See http://www.environment.gov.au/minister/hunt/2014/mr20141210.html for details of the announcement.