An experience inspiring a career in medicine

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

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Research

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.

Research projects

This repository shows a sample of science, health and medicine research at ANU. Visit our research school websites for more detail.
Professor Patrick Kluth in his lab

20 Sep 2023

Simple test could help predict risk of Alzheimer’s disease 20 years in advance

Physicists from The Australian National University (ANU) have come up with a way to use nanotechnology, combined with artificial intelligence (AI), to analyse proteins in our blood and search for signs of early neurodegeneration, or tell-tale ‘biomarkers’ that point to the onset of Alzheimer’s.

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.

Lime Connection X

22–25 October 2023

LIME Connection X: Decolonising education – through critique to transformative learning and teaching

The tenth biennial Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Network LIME Connection conference will be hosted by the Australian National University (ANU) on Ngunnawal Country, Canberra, Australia from 22-25 October 2023.