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Please congratulate CHIRI colleague (School of Biomedical Sciences), Professor Marco Falasca, recipient of the Avner Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ‘Accelerator Grant 2016′ to fund high quality projects that can clearly demonstrate support for the Foundation’s vision ‘To break through 40 years of no progress by doubling the number of people who survive pancreatic cancer by 2020′. 

Please congratulate our CHIRI-colleague Brad Zhang (SPH), who relocated his laboratory activities with the multi-centered Genetic origins of Health and Disease unit (MRF Building, CBD), on his recent grant success.  Whilst Brad is focussing principally on diseases affecting children, his methodologies are broadly relevant to CHIRI research foci. Please feel free to contact Brad for […]

Please congratulate the following postgraduate students on their CUPSA Awards. Malini Visweswaran  – ‘CUPSA Thesis Completion Grant 2016′ – provision of additional financial support during completion of the PhD thesis, co-supervised by Professor Arunasalam Dharmarajan (School of Biomedical Sciences) and Adjunct A/Professor Rodney Dilley (Ear Science Centre, UWA). Abhijeet Deshmukh – ‘International Conference Travel Award’ […]

Virginie Lam, School of Public Health has officially been conferred her PhD. Virginie completed a substantial PhD which included five first author publications and eleven co-authored publications.  The title of Virginie’s thesis was: “An investigation of a vitamin D, ionised calcium and parathyroid hormone regulatory axis of cerebral capillary function: Implications for cognitive performance in […]

Dr Evelyn Deplazes, School of Biomedical Sciences, won the New Investigator Award at the Combined Biological Sciences Meeting held at UWA on 26 August 2016. The title of Dr Deplazes’ presentation was ‘Phospholipid Binding Activity of the Spider Venom Peptides ProTx-I and ProTx-II and its Relevance to the Inhibition of the Analgesic Target NaV1.7’. Felipe […]