University of Melbourne

GTG Global Collaborations and Innovation Update

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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MELBOURNE, Australia, March 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Genetic Technologies Limited (ASX: GTG; NASDAQ: GENE, “Company”, “GTG”), a global leader in genomics-based tests in health, wellness and serious disease, is pleased to highlight a summary of the Company’s commitment to innovation.

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  • MELBOURNE, Australia, March 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Genetic Technologies Limited (ASX: GTG; NASDAQ: GENE, “Company”, “GTG”), a global leader in genomics-based tests in health, wellness and serious disease, is pleased to highlight a summary of the Company’s commitment to innovation.
  • GTG is one of the co-co-principal investigators of this trial led by Professor Jon Emery.
  • GTG regards adding new expanded risk assessment tests to the company’s portfolio as a critical step in improving patient care.
  • Leveraging this approach GTG is expanding the portfolio with the following new tests:
    Leveraging the BRCA-modifier research projects GTG will develop a test that incorporates high penetrant pathogenic variant risk with PRS.

COGNIZANT REPORTS FOURTH QUARTER AND FULL-YEAR 2023 RESULTS

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024
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Bookings in the fourth quarter declined 6% year-over-year.

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  • Bookings in the fourth quarter declined 6% year-over-year.
  • Total headcount at the end of the fourth quarter was 347,700, an increase of 1,100 from Q3 2023 and a decrease of 7,600 from Q4 2022.
  • Voluntary attrition - Tech Services for the year ended December 31, 2023 was 13.8% as compared to 25.6% for the year ended December 31, 2022.
  • The Company repurchased 4.2 million shares for $298 million during the fourth quarter under its share repurchase program.

My life as a 'Jillposter': the radical feminist poster group that pasted prints around Melbourne in the ‘80s

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024
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Jillposters was a self-funded radical feminist poster group active in Melbourne from 1983 until 1988.

Key Points: 
  • Jillposters was a self-funded radical feminist poster group active in Melbourne from 1983 until 1988.
  • Yet we produced an amazing range of posters and postcards, most of which are held in Australia’s national collection.


Read more:
From Duchamp to AI: the transformation of authorship in art

A medium for political messages

  • Women were at the forefront of postermaking in Australia in the early 1980s.
  • Silkscreen printing, as it was taught at art schools, was and is a laborious, hand-driven process.


But our posters were ideal as a medium for conveying political messages and disseminating information. Many poster workshops and groups were born in the 1970s and 80s in various locations; including Megalo Workshop in Canberra, Tin Sheds and Earthworks Poster Collective in Sydney, and Red Letter Press and Another Planet Posters in Melbourne.

Off to a flying start

  • Jillposters got off to a flying start in February 1983 when a group of friends met at the University of Melbourne student union to discuss forming a political poster group.
  • We each contributed the grand sum of A$10 to get things started and to open a bank account.
  • Our initial plan was to paste up all of our posters around the streets of Melbourne.
  • Going out late at night with a bucket of sloppy wallpaper paste, large brushes and a roll of posters was all very exciting.
  • Our aim was to find walls where our political posters wouldn’t be covered up by other groups pasting up band posters.

Shifting gear


We then shifted gear slightly and allocated a smaller portion for street paste up and the larger portion for sales through retail outlets such as galleries and bookshops in Australia and New Zealand. Poster production soon increased and our designs became more detailed and colourful.

  • We were also contacted by mainstream galleries wanting to acquire our posters for their collections.
  • Both the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of Ballarat bought posters in 1983 and then continued to collect all the posters we produced.
  • The State Library of Victoria also collected them and, in more recent years, the Ian Potter Museum at the University of Melbourne collected a range of posters.


Carole Wilson received government arts funding from federal and state arts bodies when she worked for Another Planet Posters between 1988 and 1990. She was a founding member of Jillposters and then went on to work at Another Planet Posters.

What will you read on the beach this summer? We asked 6 avid readers

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Saturday, December 30, 2023
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That might be a traditional beach read – typically a genre paperback with a propulsive plot – or an opportunity to catch up on the classics you never got around to during the year.

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  • That might be a traditional beach read – typically a genre paperback with a propulsive plot – or an opportunity to catch up on the classics you never got around to during the year.
  • We asked six experts in reading and writing to share what they plan to read on the beach.

Love and Other Scores by Abra Pressler (and other Australian romantic comedies)

  • The book I’ll be taking to the beach this summer, just in time for the tennis, is one of Pan Macmillan’s latest offerings: Love and Other Scores by Abra Pressler.
  • • Harper Collins published Steph Vizard’s The Love Contract (what if pretending to date your neighbour was the solution to your childcare problems?).
  • • Simon & Schuster published Amy Hutton’s Sit, Stay, Love (the ultimate rom-com for dog people), my own Can I Steal You For A Second?

Three Assassins by Kotaro Isaka

  • With winter receding (David Copperfield, followed by Demon Copperhead), I am looking to what kinds of books might fill my summer, so I’m reading a new-to-me crime/thriller writer, Kotaro Isaka.
  • The novel follows three men who’ve made careers out of hiring themselves as assassins.
  • And best of all, there is a new Kotaro Isaka novel, Mantis, published this month – just in time for the height of summer, under a shady tree by the sea.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and The Flying Doctor’s Christmas Wish by Kathleen Ryder

  • Middlemarch and Moby Dick, and this year will be War and Peace.
  • On a recent trip to central Australia, I met romance fiction author Kathleen Ryder.
  • Her books include Christmas-themed novellas set in Alice Springs, and my pick for this summer is The Flying Doctor’s Christmas Wish.

Skeletons in the Closet by Jean-Patrick Manchette

  • The much-anticipated English translation of the only untranslated novel by the reinventor of dark and darkly witty crime novels, Jean-Patrick Manchette, is the book I most hope to read this summer.
  • Skeletons in the Closet features the hermetic, alcoholic Parisian private eye Eugène Trapon, the only fictional creation of Manchette’s to appear in more than one novel.
  • Trapon is obviously an heir to Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade, but Manchette’s novels are only superficially hard-boiled.

Daisy and Woolf by Michelle Cahill and Between You and Me by Joanna Horton

  • Some books can’t be digested at once, so this summer I will be returning to Daisy and Woolf by Goan-Anglo-Indian poet and author, Michelle Cahill.
  • Also on my list is Between You and Me by Brisbane author, Joanna Horton.

The science fiction of Samuel R. Delany and Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang

  • This summer, I’m aiming to dive deeper into the works of Samuel R. Delany, who was memorably profiled in the New Yorker earlier this year.
  • Delany is most commonly associated with the New Wave science fiction movement of the 60s and 70s, but his writing spans a fascinating range of genres and subjects.
  • I’ve also wanted to read Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R.F.
  • Beth Driscoll receives funding from ARC Linkage Project grant LP210300666 Community Publishing in Regional Australia Liz Evans' debut novel will be published by Ultimo Press in 2024.
  • Michelle Cahill is the current Hedberg Writer-in-Residence at the University of Tasmania.

Empatica Announces Plans for Landmark Clinical Study to Develop an AI-Based Seizure Forecast Based on Wearable Real-World Data

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Thursday, November 30, 2023
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View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231130692933/en/

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  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231130692933/en/
    Empatica announces plans to develop an AI-based seizure forecasting algorithm based on wearable real-world Data (Graphic: Business Wire)
    More than 3 million Americans suffer from epilepsy, according to numbers from the Centers for Disease Control.
  • And around one third of people with epilepsy have refractory epilepsy which occurs when medications no longer control seizures1.
  • We are excited to announce our plans to begin a large clinical study aimed at using wearable technology to enable reliable seizure forecasting,” said Dr. Rosalind Picard, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Empatica.
  • Individuals who are interested in being contacted for study participation when recruitment begins can visit empatica.com/seizure-forecasting to learn more.

The University of Melbourne Collaborates with Cognizant to boost student engagement

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Monday, December 4, 2023
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TEANECK, N.J., Dec. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) today announced that it was selected by The University of Melbourne (UoM or the University), a leading international university with a tradition of excellence in teaching and research, to help implement the Tealium Customer Data Platform (CDP). The University of Melbourne is consistently ranked among the world's top universities. 

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  • The University of Melbourne is consistently ranked among the world's top universities.
  • The University of Melbourne awarded Cognizant the brief to support the creation of data-led and personalised experiences for students, staff and alumni as it looks to enhance meaningful constituent engagement.
  • Speaking to the collaboration, Kristen Anderson, Director at Cognizant leading marketing modernisation, highlighted the company's enthusiasm in working with The University of Melbourne.
  • And, through the implementation of Tealium CDP, we look forward to helping UoM improve engagement with students, alumni, and community."

The University of Melbourne Collaborates with Cognizant to boost student engagement

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Monday, December 4, 2023
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TEANECK, N.J., Dec. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) today announced that it was selected by The University of Melbourne (UoM or the University), a leading international university with a tradition of excellence in teaching and research, to help implement the Tealium Customer Data Platform (CDP). The University of Melbourne is consistently ranked among the world's top universities. 

Key Points: 
  • The University of Melbourne is consistently ranked among the world's top universities.
  • The University of Melbourne awarded Cognizant the brief to support the creation of data-led and personalised experiences for students, staff and alumni as it looks to enhance meaningful constituent engagement.
  • Speaking to the collaboration, Kristen Anderson, Director at Cognizant leading marketing modernisation, highlighted the company's enthusiasm in working with The University of Melbourne.
  • And, through the implementation of Tealium CDP, we look forward to helping UoM improve engagement with students, alumni, and community."

Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute: Priority List Provides Governments with New Tool To Monitor and Improve Adolescent Menstrual Health and Hygiene

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Thursday, November 30, 2023
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MADISON, N.J. , Nov. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers have developed a priority list of indicators to improve the monitoring of the menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) of adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).

Key Points: 
  • MADISON, N.J. , Nov. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers have developed a priority list of indicators to improve the monitoring of the menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) of adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).
  • "Despite the importance of menstrual health and hygiene for adolescent girls' health, education, and gender equality, few countries monitor MHH.
  • The priority list includes 21 indicators  including access to menstrual educational materials; the availability of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facilities; and policies.
  • "This priority list was developed to improve the monitoring of adolescent menstrual health and hygiene globally," said lead author Dr. Julie Hennegan, Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute (RGHI) fellow and senior research fellow at the Burnet Institute, an Australian-based medical research institute, where she also serves as co-head of the its Global Adolescent Health Working Group.

Australian universities have dropped in the latest round of global rankings – should we be worried?

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Thursday, September 28, 2023
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In Australia, headlines have talked about a “slide” down the world rankings for Australian universities, with our reputation also “slipping”.

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  • In Australia, headlines have talked about a “slide” down the world rankings for Australian universities, with our reputation also “slipping”.
  • For example, The University of Sydney dropped six places to 60 and the Australian National University dropped five places to 67.
  • The Conversation spoke to Associate Professor Gwilym Croucher, a higher education researcher at the University of Melbourne about what the latest rankings mean.
  • Given international student fees have played a key role in funding much research in Australian universities, this is important.

GENE Positioned at the Forefront of Multi-cancer Clinical Utility Research - MRFF Grant names GTG as sole Industry Partner

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Monday, September 11, 2023
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The grant will provide funding for the CASSOWARY Trial: a randomised controlled trial of the clinical utility and cost-effectiveness of a multi-cancer polygenic risk score in general practice.

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  • The grant will provide funding for the CASSOWARY Trial: a randomised controlled trial of the clinical utility and cost-effectiveness of a multi-cancer polygenic risk score in general practice.
  • GTG is the National Research Partner for trial which is to be led by Professor Jon Emery.
  • The trial results will inform future policy including the 5-year goal in the Australian Cancer Plan of using genomics for risk-stratified cancer screening.
  • As the sole industry partner, GTG will receive funding to cover the supply of test kits and the analysis of the sample returned.