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Tiny microscopic blood vessels called capillaries are critical for brain function and mental health. Brain capillaries also keep the brain isolated and protected from infectious diseases. Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute researchers have discovered that brain capillaries become increasingly leaky with age and that this process is accelerated by poor dietary behaviour. Capillaries that persistently […]

Adding to an already stellar list of early career achievements, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Dr Virginie Lam has outdone herself again, this time by securing a sought-after National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Fellowship. Virginie will receive an NHMRC Peter Doherty Australian Biomedical Fellowship of $327,192 over […]

Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) researcher Dr Nina Tirnitz-Parker never dreamed the inflatable penguin sitting in her office, which she won at the Lorne Cancer Conference on Phillip Island in Victoria 13 years ago, would one day help to secure her a place on a voyage to Antarctica. Penguin Philip featured in Nina’s successful […]

Early Career Research Fellow Dr Mark Agostino is among a group of researchers who may be on the cusp of finding a new way to treat two diseases that commonly occur in older age – obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Mark is collaborating in a study led by Assistant Professor Vance Matthews, from the Royal […]

More exciting research findings out of the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI), this time from lead author and head of CHIRI’s Epithelial Stem Cell Biology Group, Associate Professor Pritinder Kaur. Her team’s latest research paper, published in the journal Life Science Alliance, is a step towards developing new approaches to treating patients with severe […]

We just had to share this great photo of some Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) researchers who recently spent a weekend in the Kalbarri National Park for a winter retreat. Six members of Professor Philip Newsholme’s lab enjoyed team building and some social fun in the form of hiking, fishing, cooking meals and some […]