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ESA Newsletter: November 2003

Australasian Women In Endocrinology

The 4th meeting of the “Australasian Branch of Women in Endocrinology ” (AWE) was held on Sunday September 14th at The Melbourne Convention Centre. The reception again was well attended with over 50 registered for the event and was generously sponsored by DSL-Australia with the continued support of their Managing Director, Dr Sylvia Johnson.

Dr Johnson attended the evening, and accepting the 2003 AWE-DSL Travel Award on behalf of Nicola Solomon, was her supervisor, Dr Paul Thomas of the Murdoch Children 's Research Centre. Unfortunately, Nicola was unable to attend the ceremony due to family illness. Daniel Mulvey of Novo Nordisk, also attended the evening and presented the 2003 AWE-Novo Nordisk Travel Award to Dr Carolyn Allan of Prince Henry 's Institute for Medical Research. AWE Certificate of Merit Travel Awards were also awarded to Lauren Miles, Marie Misso and Amanda Notini.

Annual AWE-DSL and AWE-Novo Nordisk Travel grants of $1000 each, will be available again to attend ENDO 2004. These awards are to assist senior PhD students and post-doctoral fellows who are AWE members, application forms will be available from the ESA website in January 2004, and the deadline for receipt of applications is April 15th 2004.The 5th meeting of AWE will again be supported by DSL-Australia and will be held on Sunday August 22nd 2003, in conjunction with the commencement of the ESA-SRB conference in Sydney.

Cathie Coulter
Founder and Director, AWE

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