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Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute PhD student Karina Khambatta is primed to share her discoveries with the world after making it to the finals of the Western Australian Fresh Science competition. Karina was one of 10 finalists selected from WA, which saw her recently undertake two days of intensive training in public speaking, media and […]

Two Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) researchers have co-authored research linking the use of statin medication to an increased risk of skin infections and diabetes. Congratulations to lead author, PhD student Humphrey Ko, his CHIRI supervisor Dr Ricky Lareu and their fellow Curtin University collaborators Dr Brett Dix, Professor Jeffery Hughes and Dr Richard […]

Super proud of CHIRI researcher Dr Mark Hackett, from Curtin’s School of Molecular and Life Sciences, who was recently awarded a prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowship of $739,302 to progress his research into brain function with ageing. During the course of his 4-year fellowship, Mark’s focus will be on delivering new tools to visualise […]

Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute is thrilled with the announcement of $35 million in funding from the Australian Research Council for a new Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology spearheaded by Sydney’s Macquarie University from 2020. Our synthetic biologist Professor Oliver Rackham is part of the consortium that secured the funds and as the WA […]

An international collaborative study, of which Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute researcher Associate Professor Pieter Eichhorn is one of the lead authors, has discovered that using drugs to target a pathway in the body that causes cancerous cells to spread aggressively may help to reduce the severity of bladder cancer. The research is published in […]

The inaugural biennial meeting of the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology was particularly rewarding for PhD student Yi Jer (Richard) Tan, whose research poster won him the International Journal of Molecular Sciences prize. Richard, who is undertaking his studies at the Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine (INFORMM) at Universiti Sains Malaysia in […]