News & Insights
Welcome to Bellberry’s blog. Here we publish commentary, updates, feature posts, and thought leadership on research ethics, regulation, participant experience, and system change. Discover what’s happening across the research and ethics landscape in Australia and beyond.
New Bellberry Frontline Team!
Natasha Johns started at Bellberry in April and has joined forces with long term Bellberry employee Chris Weinert to form Bellberry’s new executive assistant frontline team! Natasha who is originally from SA, has recently returned after living in QLD for four years. She has been an executive assistant for 5 years and has held previous […]
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Bellberry gets involved in the inaugural Bay to City!
Bellberry runners and walkers were amongst the 3000 people that turned out to take part in the inaugural Sunday Mail Bay-City Fun Run on Sun 19th April. The reverse route followed a path from Glenelg’s Colley Reserve to Adelaide Oval with 12km and 4.5km options for competitors. The Everyday Hero fundraising event is a new […]
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New Project Officer
In January we welcomed Simon Windsor to the Bellberry team. Simon’s previous position was at Women’s and Children’s Health Research Institute, SAHMRI where he worked for 3 years as a Clinical Trial Coordinator managing randomised controlled trials in a variety of therapeutic areas. This mainly involved coordination of site start up, recruitment, enrolment and data […]
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New Bellberry Team Member
New Committee Secretary In October we welcomed Margaret Jelbart to the Bellberry team. Margaret’s previous position was at James Cook University, North Queensland where she worked for 13 years as a Governance Officer providing secretarial and administration support to a variety of governance committees, as well as academic based working parties. This mainly involved the […]
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Bellberry Opens the Year with Doubled Meeting Numbers!
Happy New Year! Today’s is just a short message to welcome back Bellberry Members and Users. The Bellberry office re-opened on the 5th January 2015, with our first HREC meeting of the year on the 7th January. We can tell that our Investigator groups are back because the studies are flowing in! In fact, the […]
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Bellberry – Leading Corporate Champions
With the support of Bellberry funding, SAHMRI has now commenced the first Bellberry Research Fellowship. Dr Michael Musker, the recipient of the Fellowship, works within SAHMRI’s Mind and Brain theme and is examining gene-environment interactions in obesity, depression and their interface. Bellberry’s donation for this Fellowship was recognised by the SAHMRI in their latest Newsletter.
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SAHMRI’s Inaugural Bellberry Mind & Brain Research Fellow Announced
The South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute’s (SAHMRI) Mind and Brain Theme Leader, Professor Julio Licinio, is pleased to announce the recipient of the inaugural Bellberry Mind and Brain Fellowship. This unique position, newly created with philanthropic support from Bellberry, will be based within the Mind and Brain research theme at SAHMRI in Adelaide, […]
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ABC News Crossover Conference Report
‘International Conference grapples with ethics’ Bellberry was in the news again recently after the hugely successful Crossover Conference, hosted by Bellberry in October, ABC News wrote a full article on the event. To listen to ‘The World Today – Patients demand more rights in clinical cancer trials 24/10/2014’ article and hear E/Prof Lloyd Sanson and […]
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Education Initiative, VELG and ARMs
Our Education Manager, Melanie Gentgall recently spent some time in Queensland networking and attending the ARMs and VELG conferences. Please find below Mel’s feedback from these events: Education Initiative – National Networking Meetings, September 2014 Recently I had an opportunity to meet with HRECs and researchers in some of Queensland’s premier research institutes including QIMR […]
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Bellberry at AusBiotech 2014
Australian and international biotech leaders and stakeholders will gather on the Gold Coast from 29 to 31 October for the AusBiotech 2014 national conference. The conference theme ‘Life Sciences = Future. Jobs. Exports.’ brings the focus to the developments in biotechnology and the life sciences industry that will significantly boost Australia’s economic performance and build […]
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Register Now for the Crossover Conference!
With just two weeks to go until we host the International Scientific Congress into the Challenges of Early Crossover in Clinical Trial Design for Oncology, time is running out to book your place! Confirmed speakers include: E/Prof Lloyd Sansom AO Prof Davina Ghersi (NHMRC) Prof Francesco Pignatti (EMA) A/Prof Michael Coory (TGA) Prof Andrew Mitchell […]
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Bellberry Hosts International Scientific Congress
Challenges of Early Crossover in Clinical Trial Design for Oncology On Wednesday 22 October 2014, Bellberry will host a conference in Adelaide on the Challenges of Early Crossover in Clinical Trial Design for Oncology. At this important event, we will launch guidelines in this area which have been consolidated by an international panel of experts […]
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Bellberry Donations Update
Dr Shayne Bellingham, University of Melbourne and Alison Gibberd, University of Sydney both received donations in 2013 as part of the Bellberry donation scheme. Below is an update on both awards. Inaugural Bellberry Indigenous Health Fellow Dr Shayne Bellingham was awarded the inaugural Bellberry Indigenous Health Fellow at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, […]
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Bellberry Education Project Update
As we have mentioned in previous updates, Bellberry Ltd is committed to contributing to the current national aim of streamlining of current ethics review processes. This is in conjunction with our core aims of promoting and improving the welfare of research participants and promoting quality, efficiency and effectiveness of research across Australia. The need for […]
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Inaugural Queensland HREC Meeting
Bellberry achieved a significant milestone in July with the first interstate HREC meeting being successfully conducted in Queensland. Committee E, registered with the NHMRC in May, held its inaugural HREC meeting in Toowong on Wednesday 9th July with fantastic input from the six locally attending members and two members joining via teleconference from South Australia. […]
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