NSW Annual Scientific Meeting on Thursday, 7 August 2025

ASMR’s NSW Committee is delighted to announce that abstracts are now open for the 33rd Annual Scientific Meeting!

Venue: Teachers’ Federation Conference Centre, Surry Hills
Date: Thursday, 7 August 2025
Time: 8am – 6:30pm
Cost: ASMR Members: Students $30, ECRs and MCRs $110
Non-Members: Students $100, ECRs and MCRs $235

Important dates are:
Abstracts Extended to: 5pm on 11 July 2025
Notification of Acceptance: 14 July 2025
Registrations Close: 30 July 2025

Abstracts will be submitted during the registration process, please consult the Instructions for Authors before submitting your abstract.

There are cash prizes for students, RAs, PhDs and ECRs, see details in the Instructions for Authors.

Special prizes also available:
The ASMR Communication Excellence Award – this new award consists of a $2,000 cash prize plus more (all orals by registrants from Hons up to three years post PhD are eligible)
The Instats Skills Development Prize – this new award is a 12-month membership of the Instats global education platform worth $1,500 (all orals by registrants from Hons up to three years post PhD are eligible)
The Alan Skyring Memorial Award – $1,000 cash prize (MCRs only, see Instructions for Authors, abstract submission deadline 5pm on Monday, 21 July 2025)

We look forward to seeing you at the NSW Annual Scientific Meeting on 7 August 2025!

ASMR NSW Gala Dinner on Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Please join us for a convivial evening celebrating the achievements of NSW’s health and medical researchers at the 2025 ASMR Medical Research Week® Gala Dinner. This year, the Gala Dinner will be held in the Strangers’ Room at the iconic NSW Parliament House, providing a rare opportunity for our members and supporters to experience fine dining at Parliament House. 

Venue: The Strangers’ Room, NSW Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney
Date: Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Time: 6.00 – 10:30pm
Cost: $180 per ticket or $1,600 for a table of 10 – table bookings can be made online using the link below or by invoice using the table order form (note: online bookings incur a credit card surcharge).

The Gala Dinner is a formal dinner uniting esteemed researchers, students, industry professionals, politicians and our ASMR Medallist. Prize recipients at the NSW and Hunter scientific meeting will also be recognised at the Gala Dinner.

As well as celebrating the best and brightest researchers in our state, the dinner will feature the 2025 ASMR Medallist, Dr Daniel Timms. Dr Timms is an innovative biomedical engineer whose journey began in Brisbane, where he spent countless hours alongside his plumber father, tinkering with water pumps and constructing imaginative devices. A personal tragedy ignited Dr Timms’ unwavering commitment to revolutionise cardiovascular care by developing a total automatic heart (TAH).

A graduate of the Queensland University of Technology, Dr Timms’ research journey took him from Brisbane’s Prince Charles Hospital to prestigious institutions worldwide. Collaborating with Germany’s Helmholtz Institute – one of Europe’s foremost cardiovascular engineering research centres – and the Texas Heart Institute, he contributed to groundbreaking work in the TAH design and development. In 2023, he was nominated for Queensland’s “Australian of the Year” award.

Dr Timms continues to collaborate with global experts to develop cutting-edge cardiovascular medical devices, and his unwavering dedication underscores his pivotal role in advancing cardiac care and saving lives.