16th Victorian Annual Scientific Meeting

ASMR’s Victorian Committee is delighted to announce that abstracts are now open for the 16th Annual Scientific Meeting!

Date: Thursday, 31 July 2025
Venue: Deakin Downtown, Level 12, Tower 2 – 727 Collins Street, Docklands
Time: 8:45am (Registration 8.00am – 8.45am)

Registration: ASMR Members: Students $30, ECRs and MCRs $90
Non-members: Students $100, ECRs and MCRs $235 (plus credit card processing fees)

Abstract submissions close at 11:59pm on 22 June 2025.

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

We look forward to seeing you at the Victorian Annual Scientific Meeting on 31 July 2025!

Melbourne Gala Dinner on Thursday, 23 October 2025

Health and medical researchers will once again come together for a convivial evening celebrating the achievements of Victoria’s health and medical researchers at the 2025 ASMR Medical Research Week® Gala Dinner.

Venue: The Arts Centre Melbourne
Date: Thursday, 23 October 2025
Time: 6.00pm
Cost: $TBA per ticket

Table bookings (tables of 10) are also available for purchase. 

The Gala Dinner is a formal dinner uniting esteemed researchers, students, industry professionals, politicians and our ASMR Medallist. Prize recipients at the Victorian annual 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.

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.