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Professor Edward Byrne, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Vice-Provost (Health), has been appointed to the role of Vice-Chancellor of Monash University, Australia. He will commence his position at Monash at the end of °×С½ãÂÛ̳'s academic year.

Professor Byrne is Head of the Medical School at °×С½ãÂÛ̳ and Executive Dean of the new °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, which was founded in 2006 from the merger of the former °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Faculty of Clinical Sciences with the postgraduate medical research institutes at °×С½ãÂÛ̳.

Together with °×С½ãÂÛ̳'s Professor Peter Mobbs, Professor Byrne has been instrumental in the consolidation of biomedical and life sciences expertise through the °×С½ãÂÛ̳ School of Medical & Life Sciences, helping to draw together °×С½ãÂÛ̳'s capabilities from basic research through to effective treatments for disease.

In August 2008, Professor Byrne also represented °×С½ãÂÛ̳ in the creation of °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Partners, in which °×С½ãÂÛ̳ has joined forces with its teaching hospitals to create the largest academic health science partnership in Europe. The venture brings °×С½ãÂÛ̳ together with the Great Ormond Street, Moorfields, Royal Free, and °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Hospitals NHS Trusts - creating a combined partnership comprising over 3,500 scientists, senior researchers and consultants. The creation of °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Partners provides a significant boost to NHS patients in London.

Professor Byrne said: "°×С½ãÂÛ̳ is the leading biomedical research university in Europe and will go from strength to strength in the years ahead. I will be looking to strengthen collaborative links when I return to Australia."

°×С½ãÂÛ̳ Provost and President, Professor Malcolm Grant, added: "Our warmest congratulations go to Ed Byrne on this appointment, though we shall all be sorry indeed to lose him. In his time at °×С½ãÂÛ̳ he has made an outstanding contribution to the strategic direction of biomedical sciences here, with a view to cementing °×С½ãÂÛ̳'s position as Europe's leading centre for biomedical teaching and research. Under his leadership we have succeeded both in consolidating and refocusing our efforts, while at the same time taking on board several major new projects and challenges."

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Image: Professor Ed Byrne