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CHIRI is delighted to celebrate one of our own with the announcement of a prestigious NHMRC Research Fellowship awarded to Professor Christopher Reid: Improving the Prevention, Treatment and Management of Cardiovascular & Chronic Disease in the Community ($774,540).  Chris is one of CHIRI’s lead eminent researchers within the Vascular & Metabolic Theme of CHIRI.  Chris  is a […]

Congratulations to CHIRI Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dr. Jully Gogoi Tiwari (School of Biomedical Sciences).  Her research project titled “Targeting the Fn14 receptor to inhibit chronic liver disease progression” has been successful in attracting a 2018 Spinnaker Grant of $15,000. The grant will be formally awarded at the Spinnaker Health Research Foundation’s Annual Awards Night on […]

Congratulations to CHIRI PhD student Malini Visweswaran (School of Biomedical Sciences), who has received outstanding academic achievement for her PhD thesis examination.  Malini’s PhD thesis has been awarded an A grade distinction and supported for the Chancellor’s commendation from both her thesis examiners. Malini is a stem cell and cancer researcher who joined the School of […]

Louise Woodhams, a CHIRI honours student (School of Pharmacy) [2016-current] in Dr Hani Al-Salami’s lab, has won a prestigious fund representing Australia (among 2 others from UQ and Griffith), to showcase her work entitled: “Novel nanotechnological advancement in new bile acid oral-targeted delivery for encapsulation of potential antidiabetic drugs”.  Louise presented her work in the IPF […]

Please meet the newest addition to Dr. Nina Tirnitz-Parker’s lab Miss Emma Köhn.  Emma was born on the 27th July at 3 am weighing 3435 g.  She looks exactly like her older sister Mia at that age.  Mum and Bub are now at home and apparently, Emma has been the perfect baby so far.  Congratulations Julia and Fillippo!

The Hon. Greg Hunt MP, Minister for Health, Minister for Sport and The Hon. Ken Wyatt AM, MP, Minister for Aged Care, Minister for Indigenous Health, yesterday announced $40 million for dementia research projects which will improve the lives of Australians fighting dementia.  The announcement was made at the Curtin University Medical School and  CHIRI is delighted to advise that Dr […]

Congratulations to CHIRI PhD Student Shelley Waters (School of Biomedical Sciences), who won the prize for the best research presentation at the Immunology Day meeting of the WA Branch of Australasian Society for Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA) on 10th June.  The presentation was titled “Is saliva an informative non-invasive sample for studying clinical CMV […]

Dr Mark Agostino was recently awarded the Best Presentation by a Post-doctoral Fellow or Clinician, for his presentation at the annual research symposium of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR). The award is sponsored by the University of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University and St John of God Health Care. Dr […]

Dr Josh Ramsay (School of Biomedical Sciences) has been awarded a prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowship for Harnessing horizontal gene transfer for sustainable nitrogen fixation – $780,000.  Josh’s interests in microbial gene transfer cuts across many disciplines including agriculture, environment and health domains and this four-year focused research Fellowship will enable Josh to significantly grow […]