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Is Shenton College Year 12 student Linton Robins a future microbial genetics researcher at the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI)? Time will tell but Linton is on the right track having recently completed a three-day work placement under the supervision of PhD students Tahlia Bastholm and Callum Verdonk. Tahlia and Callum are researchers in […]

It has been more than a decade since the Curtin Health Innovation and Research Institute (CHIRI) Director Professor John Mamo and his former PhD student Professor Spencer Proctor teamed up and made some ground-breaking discoveries in heart disease research. Their pioneering study turned some previously held misconceptions about the causes of heart disease on their […]

When you’re a researcher at CHIRI the work can really get under your skin! Just ask CHIRI’s Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Joanne Gardner (School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences). It’s been great having Joanne working with us as part of Associate Professor Pritinder Kaur’s team, whose research is focused on improving the regeneration abilities of skin […]

Congratulations to CHIRI post-doctoral research fellow Dr Virginie Lam on being recognised among WA’s six leading researchers, and as ‘The Brainchild’, by The West Australian newspaper for her work investigating links between Vitamin D and brain health. Dr Lam is profiled among a number of passionate, highly skilled scientists and health practitioners who are working […]

The Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) has some pretty impressive facilities, so who better to chair the 4th Annual Research Facilities Design and Development Summit than one of our own? CHIRI’s Research Facility Manager, Dr Rob Steuart has been in Sydney chairing the 2-day summit, which ran from 30 April to 1 May 2018. Rob’s […]