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When it comes to its facilities, the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) knows sharing is caring. Just ask our Senior Technical Officer (STO) Jeanne Edmands, who this month represented CHIRI at the annual Australasian Cytometry Society (ACS) Roadshow in Sydney, Australia. Jeanne is the STO for CHIRI’s Flow Cytometry shared resource facility, located at […]

Attending the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce WA’s Annual ‘Dr Patricia V Kailis AM OBE Women of Achievement Lunch’ provided food for thought for some of CHIRI’s leading ladies. The event featured an address by Diane Smith-Gander, Non-Executive Director of AGL Energy and Wesfarmers Limited, on ‘Learning to lead – one woman’s perspective’. CHIRI’s Professor […]

It was a golden moment for the Curtin Health Innovation Research Centre when one of its recent Honours students, Amy Woodfield, stepped onstage at the Australian Society of Medical Research (ASMR) WA Symposium Gala Dinner. Amy was there to accept the Silver Sponsors Award for the symposium’s Best Presentation by an Honours Student for 2018. […]

CHIRI Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Federica Tomay is part of a team working to turn back the clock on immune system decline with ageing, with a particular focus on muscle repair. Declined immune function slows healing and delays tissue regeneration, making the elderly more prone to injury and two times more likely than young people to […]