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International Biology of Ageing II conference prize winner

Congratulations to CHIRI’s Dr Connie Jackaman  (School of Biomedical Sciences)  who was awarded the Best Short Talk prize at the International Biology of Ageing II conference held at the Grand Copthorne Hotel in Singapore 14th-17th November 2017.  The presentation titled “Depletion of macrophages in elderly, but not young, mice improves IL-2/anti-CD40 immunotherapy and increases anti-tumour […]

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CHIRI PhD Student recommended for Chancellor’s Commendation

Congratulations to CHIRI PhD Student Himel Khaleque who has received two A* for her PhD and was also recommended for a Chancellor’s Commendation.  Her thesis was entitled “Acidihalobacter: Novel Halotolerant Iron- and Sulfur- Oxidizing Acidophiles with Potential for Saline Water Bioleaching”. Himel is a microbiologist biotechnologist who joined the School of Biomedical Sciences in 2014 […]

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PhD Success – Revathy Carnagarin

Another PhD success story with CHIRI PhD Student Revathy Carnagarin, primary supervised by Prof Crispin Dass and co-supervised by Prof Arunasalam Dharmarajan (School of Biomedical Sciences) securing a position as a post doc research associate- clinical research at UWA Medical School.  Revathy is now located at Dobney Hypertension Clinical Research, Royal Perth Hospital and reports to Winthrop Professor Markus Schlaich, Dobney Chair […]

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