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CHIRI Image of the Year Winner

Congratulations to Miheer Sabale for winning Image of the Year!  The Nikon camera award was presented at the CHIRI Focus on Microscopy Workshop.  A big thanks to everyone who helped judge images throughout the year and for Coherent Scientific/Nikon for sponsoring! Also, thanks to everyone for their submissions, participation and engagement throughout the year. All entries […]

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CHIRI People – Dr. Rodrigo Carlessi

Please congratulate Dr. Rodrigo Carlessi who won the best poster prize at the Australian Islet Study Group Meeting (AISG 2016) which took place at the RMIT University in Melbourne on the 18th November.  The poster title was ‘GLP-1 receptor signaling promotes β-cell glucose metabolism via mTOR-dependent HIF-1α activation’.  Rodrigo’s supervisor is Prof. Philip Newsholme (School of […]

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CHIRI People – Congratulations to Marco Falasca

Please congratulate CHIRI colleague (School of Biomedical Sciences), Professor Marco Falasca, recipient of the Avner Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ‘Accelerator Grant 2016′ to fund high quality projects that can clearly demonstrate support for the Foundation’s vision ‘To break through 40 years of no progress by doubling the number of people who survive pancreatic cancer by 2020′. 

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Congratulations to Brad Zhang and team

Please congratulate our CHIRI-colleague Brad Zhang (SPH), who relocated his laboratory activities with the multi-centered Genetic origins of Health and Disease unit (MRF Building, CBD), on his recent grant success.  Whilst Brad is focussing principally on diseases affecting children, his methodologies are broadly relevant to CHIRI research foci. Please feel free to contact Brad for […]

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CHIRI People – Student Award

Please congratulate Aleksandra Adamska who recently won the prestigious Australasian Pancreatic Research Prize ‘The Lord Richard Williams Award’.  Aleksandra gave a wonderful presentation at the Australasian Pancreatic Club Annual Scientific meeting and was ranked first from presentations made by other student Registrars and Clinical/Research Fellows.  Moreover, the award is in recognition for a contribution likely […]

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CHIRI Image of the Month – November

Congratulations to Imran Khan as the final “Image of the Month” winner.  Image of the Year and prize winner will be announced at the CHIRI Microscopy Workshop this Wednesday! Click image to see larger version.

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CHIRI People – CUPSA Awards

Please congratulate the following postgraduate students on their CUPSA Awards. Malini Visweswaran  – ‘CUPSA Thesis Completion Grant 2016′ – provision of additional financial support during completion of the PhD thesis, co-supervised by Professor Arunasalam Dharmarajan (School of Biomedical Sciences) and Adjunct A/Professor Rodney Dilley (Ear Science Centre, UWA). Abhijeet Deshmukh – ‘International Conference Travel Award’ […]

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CHIRI Seminar Series – 10/11/16

Thursday, 10 November – 1.00pm-2.00pm – B100: Level 3 Council Chambers Prof. Markus Schlaich Dobney Chair in Clinical Research, Renal Physician & Hypertension Specialist, MD, FAHA, FESC, NHMRC Senior Research Fellow School of Medicine and Pharmacology – Royal Perth Hospital Unit Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences The University of Western Australia “Challenges and opportunities in hypertension […]

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