The Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute was privileged to host His Excellency, the European Union Ambassador, Mr Michael Pulch. The primary purpose for the Ambassador’s visit was to celebrate and learn more about Curtin University-CHIRI’s Dr Hani Al-Salami’s involvement as a Chief Investigator in the MEDLEM project, which has received $500K funding through the Horizon 2020 European Union initiative. The Horizon 2020 is an €80 billion research investment program, the largest ever supported through the European Union. The MEDLEM project is developing nano-sensors for optimizing chemotherapeutic treatment in highly fragile leukemia patients .

The visit of his Excellency to Curtin and CHIRI was kindly hosted by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Deborah Terry, with interactive discussions between the Deputy Vice Chancellor-International, Prof Seth Kunin, the Pro-Vice Chancellor Health Sciences, Professor Michael Berndt, the Dean of Research Professor Torbjorn Falkmer and the Director for CHIRI, Prof John Mamo. The delegation was given a tour of our innovative research labs, meeting some of our talented early career researchers and postgraduate students. You can read more about Horizon 2020 here: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/.

(l-r) Prof John Mamo, Dr Rob Steuart, Dr Hani A-Salami, Mr Michael Pulch, Prof Torbjorn Faulkmer, Prof Michael Berndt and Prof Seth Kunin