We are delighted to announce that CHIRI and School of Biomedical Sciences Professor Dharma and members of his team including Dr Frank Arfuso, Sebastian Pohl, Malini Visweswaran, Abhijeet Deshmukh, Toby Price and Sarah Chee were announced winners of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin Innovation Award 2016. The Awards ceremony was held at Frasers State Function Centre and presented in front of an audience of 350 VIP and distinguished guests.  The award of $5000 was given for their pioneering studies in ‘Selectively targeting the seeds of cancer using peptides’.  A short video of their study can be viewed at www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYkRg2I3Pfw  Please join me in wishing Dharma and his team continued success with this exciting line of investigation.

Congratulations to Nick Fimognari for winning the latest Image of the Month!

Coronal section of a SAMR-1 mouse hippocampus at 18 weeks detailing elemental tomography of Iron (red), Zinc (blue) and Potassium (green) using X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy.

We welcome all images from any experiments generated within the facility, whether it be samples prepared in the facility or through images generated with the facility microscopy equipment. At the end of the year a camera prize will be presented to the best image from the year, sponsored by Nikon/Coherent Scientific. If you wish to enter the next round please send through images to connie.jackaman@curtin.edu.au