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Podcast on how ANZAC’s Dr. Vivien Chen helping reduce deaths from TTS blood-clotting condition.
Dr. Vivien Chen, Laboratory Leader for the ANZAC Research Institute’s Platelet, Thrombosis and Cancer Research Laboratory discuss how deaths were prevented from thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) on a podcast with Guardian Australia’s Medical editor, Melissa Davey. “The AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has been linked with a rare blood-clotting condition called thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS).…
Read MoreARI’s Professor Marina Kennerson one of the lead researchers awarded a $3 million MRFF Genomics Health Futures Mission grant.
Professor Kennerson combined forces with Professor Nigel Laing at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research in Western Australia for a project to improve the diagnosis of rare late onset neurogenetics diseases including Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) neuropathy. The team at ANZAC is now part of a trans-Australian collaboration involving teams in Western Australia, Victoria and South…
Read MoreARI’s Neurobiology Lab Winning Presentations
Congratulations to Dr Anthony Cutrupi on receiving the award for Best Postdoctoral presentation and Ally Boyling receiving the award for Best PhD Student presentation at the NSW Australian Society of Stem Cell Research (ASSCR) meeting held last Friday at Westmead Hospital. Both the presentations were about using motor neurons derived from re-programmed patient skin cells,…
Read MoreThe ANZAC Research Institute Commemorates its 20th ANZAC Day with a Rich History
This year marks the 20th ANZAC Day commemorated by the ANZAC Research Institute since its opening in April 2002. At reaching the 106th anniversary of the landings at Gallipoli, we at the ANZAC Research Institute are more conscious than most in the community of the debt all Australians owe our veterans. Our Institute carries the name…
Read MoreDr Nicholas Hunt awarded 2021 ADS Skip Martin Early Career Fellowship Award
The ANZAC Research Institute would like to congratulate Dr Nicholas Hunt on winning the “2021 Australian Diabetes Society Skip Martin Early Career Fellowship Award” for his research project on “Nanotechnology for the oral delivery of regular insulin”
Read MoreRemembrance Day
Each year, at 11am on the 11th of November, Australians observe one minute’s silence in memory of those who have died or suffered in all wars and armed conflicts. Known as Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day, the day is commemorated across the country in different ways. In the Covid era, many will participate in virtual…
Read More2020 Griffith Hack Concord Research Awards supported by Griffith Hack, the CRGH Research Committee and the ANZAC Research Institute.
The 2020 Griffith Hack Concord Innovation Research Awards are presented to researchers or research groups that have developed research that has the potential for commercialisation. Griffith Hack will then work with them over the next 12 months to evaluate and/or capture their IP or develop a monetisation roadmap that would assist them going forward. Over…
Read MoreANZAC Day – A Day of Remembrance
Commemorating ANZAC Day The word ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The soldiers who fought together became known as Anzacs, exemplifying a tradition of service, selflessness and mateship. April 25th was officially designated ANZAC Day in 1916 by Australia and New Zealand. It is a national holiday in both countries and a…
Read MoreANZAC’s Dendritic Cell Research laboratory instrumental in commercialism of a potential therapeutic
Kira Biotech’s research program is based on decades of research led by the late Professor Derek Hart and Associate Professor Georgina Clark while working at the Mater Medical Research Institute, the ANZAC Research Institute and The University of Sydney. Many Australian collaborators over the past decade have also contributed to the research, in particular, those…
Read MoreNew Discovery Newsletter Available – August 2019
See our latest ANZAC Research Institute Discovery Newsletter – August 2019. Some of the main news items: Discover why some Australians are more likely to have cardiovascular disease Sydney hosts International Asian Oceanic CMT Conference Young Investigator Award for Andrology Research into Male Fertility A Rewarding Partnership – NSW Ministery of Health Grant Sacrifice Was…
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