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High-impact publication success for early career CHIRI scientists

Back row l-r: Kelsi Wells, Rob Steuart & Amy Black Front row l-r: Carl Mousley & Kofi Stevens Dear friends of CHIRI, what a tremendous outcome for CHIRI-postgraduate students and early career research scientists to have published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  Lead postgraduate student Kofi Stevens with Amy […]

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Honours student awarded Dementia Australia Research Foundation PhD Scholarship

Please congratulate CHIRI 2017 Honours Student, Melissa Eccles, who was awarded a Dementia Australia Research Foundation PhD Scholarship to continue her work from her honours year, where she identified important regions within the enzyme responsible for amyloid-protein production in Alzheimer’s disease.

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Collaborative study shedding light on potential target for cancer treatment

It gives us great pleasure to see a substantial and complex line of research enquiry be recognised via publication in the prestigious journal Developmental Cell.  CHIRI’s Carl Mousley is a leading author in an international collaborative study shedding light on functional proteins that are critical in regulation of cell proliferation and by extension, potential target for […]

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Prizes awarded to CHIRI scientists at the prestigious Lorne Conference

The Lorne Conference Series, held annually in the town of Lorne along Victoria’s picturesque Great Ocean Road, is one of the premiere events in the Australian biomedical research calendar.  CHIRI’s Dr Mark Agostino, along with PhD students Sebastian Pohl and Melissa Eccles, recently attended the 43rd Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function.  Dr Agostino […]

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