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Cancer treatment trial showing encouraging results for humans and their best friends

A Curtin University dog cancer treatment trial led by Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute’s Associate Professor Delia Nelson, with long-time involvement from Research Associate Stephen Proksch (both from Curtin’s School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences), has tails and chins wagging, raising hopes for a more effective immunotherapy treatment of an aggressive cancer that is also […]

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CHIRI’s biotechnology research in demand to treat inner ear disease

USA-based research repurposing non-profit, Cures Within Reach, has awarded Curtin University $89,000 in funding for a research project led by Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) researchers working to formulate tissue-targeting therapeutics to treat the inner ear disorder Meniere’s disease. With the disease increasingly common in older aged subjects, and in some people a consequence […]

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Digital display capturing CHIRI’s dementia research

Visualise this – you have 60 seconds to communicate your PhD thesis through a digital display and your topic is links between chronic stress and Alzheimer’s disease. Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) PhD student Ayeisha Milligan Armstrong recently took up the challenge and earned herself third place and a $100 prize in the national […]

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Read all about us – the team behind our research

Want to know more about the research we do at CHIRI? What better way to share it with you than by profiling some of our amazing team of researchers and their important work to find new preventions and treatments for a range of age-related diseases? Our multi-disciplinary team works with a talented cohort of research […]

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