Austin Graham Milton

Austin Milton works for the Stroke Research Programme and the Cardiology Department of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in the Basil Hetzel Institute for Translational Health Research at Woodville South, South Australia.

Austin has extensive experience in immunodiagnostics, including two episodes as NATA assessor of immunodiagnostic laboratories and several years of experience in a renal immunology team. His skills include PCR assays, electrophoresis techniques, cell cultures, immuno-histochemistry and both light and ultraviolet microscopy.

He has co-authored 16 publications in the last 5 years (including conference abstracts) and has previously co-authored a chapter on microbiological tests in a medical textbook, and helped with the editing and publication of three medical textbooks. He has 34 original peer-reviewed publications recognised by Google Scholar. He undertakes critical editing of scientific manuscripts for publication and thesis review and is skilled at writing grant applications to funding bodies like the NHMRC.

In 2011 a grant application to the Rebecca L Cooper Medical Research Foundation for which Mr Milton was principal writer was awarded the prestigious Leo Dintenfass medal for “the most interesting or innovative research grant application of the year”. In 2016, Austin was awarded a runner-up prize in the inaugural SAHMRI 'Shark Tank' competition.

He has also helped other researchers publish their findings by assisting them with critical manuscript editing and submission, most recently with “CT Angiography (CTA) in the Assessment of Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)” by Benedict et al., Stroke 2013;44(4):e32, a communication by Appleton et al., Int J Stroke 2015;10:e23 and also Moey et al., Int J Stroke 2015; 10(5) E49.