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Flinders Clinical and Molecular Medicine

From molecules to best practice: from prevention to cure

Head: Prof Lynne Cobiac

Flinders Clinical and Molecular Medicine comprises teams of clinicians who take the problems they see as health professionals back to the bench to create groundbreaking molecular approaches to prevention and treatment.  It incorporates our internationally recognised Cancer, Nutrition, Eye and Vision, Immune Strategies and Surgical research and teaching groups.

Key undergraduate courses currently taught or contributed to in this cluster are Nutrition and Dietetics, the Graduate Entry Medical Program, Medical Science and Health Sciences.  The cluster also offers higher degrees by research.

News

School of Medicine News - FCMM

  • Professor Graeme Young awarded distinguished research prize
    Professor Graeme Young has been awarded the 2009 distinguished research prize by the Gastroenterological Society of Australia. Graeme, who is the Director of the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer, received the award in recognition of his sustained and high quality research in the fi eld of gastroenterology and its impact on health care in Australia [...]
  • Excellence in palliative care
    The Southern Adelaide Health Service has been recognised as one of three centres in Australia and one of 73 in the world as a centre for excellence in palliative care for cancer patients. The designated centres program has been established by the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO). The prestigious ‘ESMO Designated Centers of Integrated Oncology and [...]
  • Resistant starch balances red meat risks
    Flinders researchers are studying the potential role of a dietary fibre supplement in reducing the risk for bowel cancer in people who consume a diet rich in red meat. ‘The aim of the study is to ascertain whether the consumption of a diet high in red meat causes changes in certain markers for bowel cancer, and [...]

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    CRICOS Provider: 00114A | Updated: 04 Feb 2010