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ARC Linkage grant success

Please congratulate CHIRI’s Professor Ricardo Mancera (School of Biomedical Sciences) on his recent ARC Linkage grant success with his application titled “Advanced cryobanking for recalcitrant-seeded Australian rainforest plants”.  Ricardo was the leading chief investigator on this grant application, which involves researchers from RMIT, UWA, ANSTO, the US Department of Agriculture, University of South Dakota, Kings Park Botanic Garden and […]

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At the forefront – Dr Josh Ramsay

In case you missed this lovely article on one of CHIRI’s rising stars, recently published in The West Australian …… In this special Science on the Swan edition, we profile some of the brightest up-and-coming West Australian researchers and the exciting work they are doing. Ramsay laboratory, School of Biomedical Sciences and Curtin Health Innovation […]

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Journal of Biological Chemistry

It is always great to have papers published and particularly satisfying to announce high impact factor publications.  On this occasion, please congratulate Mark, Sebastian and Dharma for their pending publication titled “Structure-based prediction of Wnt binding affinities for Frizzled-type cysteine-rich domains” in the prestigious Journal of Biological Chemistry. (L-R)  Mark Agostino, Sebastian Pohl and Arun Dharmarajan

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CCTRM Annual Research Symposium

Please congratulate Deirdre Coombe & Pritinder Coombe who, on behalf of CHIRI, co-hosted UWA’s Centre for Cell Therapy & Regenerative Medicine’s 5th Annual Research Symposium. Approximately 65 attendees were hosted to a series of outstanding national and international presentations. In addition to the exceptional presentations, feedback from the postgraduates in attendance indicated they were very […]

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CHIRI Cancer Workshop

Post Science on Swan, CHIRI hosted a Cancer Workshop which was kindly organised by Delia Nelson, Pritinder Kaur, Nina Tirnitz-Parker, Connie Jackaman, Carl Mousley, Pat Metharom, Deirdre Coombe and Yu Yu.  The meeting had the opportunity to host 5 International/national speakers, as well as featuring CHIRI researchers and PhD students.  Attendance was once again strong, […]

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2017 Science on the Swan Conference

The Faculty of Health Sciences and CHIRI were pleased to sponsor the Science on the Swan Conference, Perth’s premier conference for health and medical research and to also support attendance of postgraduate students via complimentary registration.  More than half of the submitted abstracts presented at Science on the Swan were from CHIRI postgraduate students.  Moreover, two […]

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2nd Annual Day of Immunology hosted by CHIRI

CHIRI hosted two events in as many days for the Annual Day of Immunology.  Close to 40 staff and students competed in the 2nd annual Day of Immunology 5-a-side soccer tournament organised by PhD student, Waheed Alrehaily, on 27th April.  A number of other staff and students also came to support the “immune cells” in […]

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