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Some stories from 2006:
Geelong man
receives bionic ear mantle
2 August 2006
Professor Rob Shepherd has been
appointed as Director to Australia's Bionic Ear Institute, following in the
footsteps of Professor Graeme Clark, the inventor of the bionic ear.
His appointment follows a global
search for the right person. Portland-born, Geelong-education-the local man
shone through.
Bionic Ear creator wins eminent medal – and files more
patents
27 July 2006
Award and new patents mark the next steps for
Australia’s Bionic Ear.
The patents will contribute to a future bionic ear
giving greater clarity, music appreciation, and help for people with partial
hearing loss, according to the Bionic Ear’s inventor, Graeme Clark who will
receive the Ian Wark Medal at a lecture and dinner to be held in his honour
in Melbourne today.
Campaign to map human mutations
14 June 2006
From 20 to 23 June, Melbourne hosted an elite group of international
geneticists, meeting to plan a global project that will catalogue human
mutations and help transform our understanding and treatment of genetic and
common diseases.
Will our genetic heritage
disappear overseas?
8 February 2006
Australian geneticists are
meeting in Canberra today to discuss how we can harvest Australia’s unique
genetic heritage, before other countries do it for us.
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