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The Australasian Society for Immunology’s (ASI) Annual Scientific Meeting returned to Perth for the first time in eight years this December. The annual meeting of this broad-based society focused on supporting the discipline of immunology, is rotated around Australia and New Zealand. The meeting was last held in Western Australia in 2010. For the past […]

Two Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) researchers received a total of more than $2.24 million in funding from the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants. Professor Melinda (Lindy) Fitzgerald (CHIRI/Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Sciences) received $1,245,138 as the chief investigator of a research project looking to define […]

Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) cancer researcher Professor Arun (Dharma) Dharmarajan (from Curtin’s School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences) is guest editing special issues of two international research journals. The first is a special issue on ‘Cancer Stem Cells’ for the International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (Impact factor 3.2) and the second […]

Congratulations to the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute’s (CHIRI) Dr Mark Hackett from Curtin’s School of Molecular and Life Sciences on receiving the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) Analytical and Environmental Chemistry Division Paul Haddad Medal. The medal recognises Mark’s research and contribution to analytical and environmental chemistry, both nationally and internationally, in particular his […]

The involvement of several Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) researchers in the recent Gastroenterological Society of Australia’s (GESA) 2018 Research Workshop in Surfers Paradise helped to ensure a swell event. The workshop, convened by CHIRI Associate Professor Nina Tirnitz-Parker, from Curtin’s School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, and Professor Nicholas Shackel from the Ingham […]

Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) Work Experience Volunteer Ayeisha Milligan Armstrong has been awarded a highly-prized 2018 Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration (DCRC) Postgraduate Scholarship. Ayeisha, who is a former CHIRI Honours student, received one of only three of the highly-competitive scholarships awarded nationally this year. She will use the scholarship of $30,000 a […]

“We could make that little bit of hope a bit bigger,” says Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) researcher Professor Marco Falasca, on news his potential new treatment for pancreatic cancer is moving into clinical trials. Curtin University is conducting the clinical trials, which will see pancreatic cancer patients in Western Australia offered a medicinal […]

  Another successful Symposium of Western Australian Neuroscience (SWAN) may be behind us but it’s fresh in the minds of many at the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) who are celebrating their involvement in the two-day event. A total of around 190 people participated at various stages throughout the program, which featured an impressive […]