Stuart Ralph

The NHMRC yesterday announced final allocations for the year. The 2025 success rate for Ideas grants was 10%, Investigator grants 13%, and Clinical Trials 9%. Australia's total spend on healthcare and technology innovation in medicine and biotech from the Medical Research Endowment Account and Medical Research Future Fund this year will equate to the cost of 0.004 submarines. We're spending more on a single submarine than we'll spend on medical research in 30 years. Medical research matters. A clever country invests in the things that matter.

@MarkusCovertLab @UniMelb Looking forward to welcoming you next week

So honored to receive this award, can't wait to visit @UniMelb! And thanks a million to my incredible lab, a brilliant and wonderful group of people who inspire me every day ❤️🦠💻

Thanks to the @MiM_Melbourne organisers for a terrific Malaria in Melbourne conference. Nice talks from @lkhuynh_ and Haowen Deng

@georgieparker Nice ad prompt twitter

Is there a Bunnings nearby Lords? Asking for 11 friends.

@MESAmalaria @MarieMa05 Oh dear, it’s official! Oops! If you happen to be in Barcelona during the meeting, have a look at how many spires la sagrada familia has too

@sturalph @MarieMa05 grc.org/malaria-grs-co…

🚨 This weekend (May 24–25) is the #MalariaGRS 2025! 🔬 Join early-career researchers in Castelldefels, Spain to share work on microscopy, genetics, vaccines & surveillance. More info 👉 shorturl.at/MqbP0

@KingOfPathogens @McfaddenGeoff Yes I suspected that was the business model

@sturalph @McfaddenGeoff Was @McfaddenGeoff 's question "what's an antibody"? Glad you were finally able to sit through an immunology session and, for the record, none of us are 100% agreed on anything immunological. Keeps us in business.

Hey @KingOfPathogens we had a terrific Immunology session at BioMalPar this week in Heidelberg. @McfaddenGeoff even asked a immunologyish question. But am I correct in understanding from the session that you folks are still not all *100%* agreed about how we aquire immunity?

Malaria colleagues, please do join in this online game of “Where’s Wally?” at BioMalPar, as well as the advanced version for we ageing members: “Where’s Wally’s growing bald patch?” #EMBLMalaria

Congratulations @SophieLCollier on a fantastic presentation on organelle inheritance in malaria parasites at BioMalPar #EMBLMalaria @EMBLEvents

Go Long @lkhuynh_. Fancy cell biology and fancy microscopy on artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium parasites at the BioMalPar conference #depremoldu EMBLMalaria @EMBLEvents

Very fortunate to have Abdoulaye Djimdé @djimdeab kicking off the BioMalPar XXI meeting @EMBLEvents #EMBLMalaria

Somewhat waylaid, but still on my way to BioMalPar by whatever mode of transport I can find #EMBLMalaria

@Gladbaqs @Huynh_ @SophieLCollier I think I took a wrong turn at Clifton Hill

@sturalph @Huynh_ @SophieLCollier That’s on the Hurstbridge line, right?

BioMalPar bound! Looking forward to meeting up with malaria folks soon in Heidelberg #EMBLMalaria embl.org/about/info/cou…

Join us online tomorrow to hear two @AS_Para talks on malaria for World Malaria Day. Frankie Lyons @WEHI_research talking about Transmission-blocking nanobodies and Ashton Kelly @IMBatUQ on Immune heterogeneity in NK cells during controlled infection parasite.org.au/blog/asp-onlin…

@KingOfPathogens @jueberhard @LouridoLab If there’s one thing I hate more in a manuscript than cytokine names, it’s pompous formulae with Greek symbols. But grudging congrats, great paper.

For those interested in infection and the CNS - a mix of math, parasites and immunology (@sturalph) to understand why latency matters and is host protective. Does take a village and congrats to @jueberhard @LouridoLab and all involved! rdcu.be/efknc

Thanks to our @UniMelbMDHS SBS Early-Mid Career Researchers Association @sbsemcra and panellists for running an inspiring event for #InternationalWomensDay. Great messages on “Amplifying Brilliant Career Moves”. #IWD2025

Is it only parasitologists that are happy to sit through one talk on maggots, then another on worms in horseshit before an evening meal together? What other weirdos do this? Great to get together with the Melbourne @AS_Para folks- thanks @LucasHuggins3 for organising.

Terrific scheme - particularly note the support for longer study travel by, for example parasitologists and other biomedical scientists