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Before the weekend’s royal wedding, there were the CHIRI weddings. Not a white coat in sight, as four of our researchers stepped out of the lab and into a life of wedded bliss. Researchers spend their lives discovering things so no surprise that two of our researchers discovered love with each other! I’m sure you’ll agree […]

Back row l-r: Kelsi Wells, Rob Steuart & Amy Black Front row l-r: Carl Mousley & Kofi Stevens Dear friends of CHIRI, what a tremendous outcome for CHIRI-postgraduate students and early career research scientists to have published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  Lead postgraduate student Kofi Stevens with Amy […]

Please congratulate CHIRI 2017 Honours Student, Melissa Eccles, who was awarded a Dementia Australia Research Foundation PhD Scholarship to continue her work from her honours year, where she identified important regions within the enzyme responsible for amyloid-protein production in Alzheimer’s disease.

It gives us great pleasure to see a substantial and complex line of research enquiry be recognised via publication in the prestigious journal Developmental Cell.  CHIRI’s Carl Mousley is a leading author in an international collaborative study shedding light on functional proteins that are critical in regulation of cell proliferation and by extension, potential target for […]

Congratulations to CHIRI’s Dr Mark Hackett (School of Molecular and Life Sciences) who has been awarded Dementia Australia Research Foundation’s Mamutil Project Grant ($50,000) for his project titled “Investigation of age-related alteration to hippocampal elemental and biochemical homeostasis and neuro-vascular function, as a means to identify new therapeutic strategies to minimize or delay dementia onset in the […]

Congratulations to CHIRI PhD Student Himel Khaleque who has received two A* for her PhD and was also recommended for a Chancellor’s Commendation.  Her thesis was entitled “Acidihalobacter: Novel Halotolerant Iron- and Sulfur- Oxidizing Acidophiles with Potential for Saline Water Bioleaching”. Himel is a microbiologist biotechnologist who joined the School of Biomedical Sciences in 2014 […]

Another PhD success story with CHIRI PhD Student Revathy Carnagarin, primary supervised by Prof Crispin Dass and co-supervised by Prof Arunasalam Dharmarajan (School of Biomedical Sciences) securing a position as a post doc research associate- clinical research at UWA Medical School.  Revathy is now located at Dobney Hypertension Clinical Research, Royal Perth Hospital and reports to Winthrop Professor Markus Schlaich, Dobney Chair […]

Congratulations to CHIRI PhD candidate, Abhijeet Deshmukh (School of Biomedical Sciences) for receiving a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center.  The MD Anderson Cancer Center is one of the prestigious centres devoted exclusively for cancer research, patient care and education.  It is affiliated with University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA.  […]