CHIRI was privileged to host the Deputy Premier and Minister for Health and for Mental Health, the Honorable Roger Cook MLA, with members of the Senior Executive Team from Curtin on Thursday, 13th July. Mr Cook took great interest in CHIRI’s substantial research commitments to health and medical research that is targeting chronic diseases commonly […]
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CHIRI People – Shelley Waters
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 […]
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ASMR award – Dr Mark Agostino
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 […]
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EU 2020 Horizon Scholarship success
Curtin (Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute) has been awarded world class Australian-European funding from the prestigious EU Horizon 2020 funding agency to support selective Curtin students/staff to spend 2 to 3 months in Europe (secondments), over the period of April 2017 till December 2019. The funding covers 4 secondments for the principle Curtin leader of the […]
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CHIRI research highlighted by lead journals
Great to see more CHIRI research being highlighted by lead journals, this time in the Nutritional Physiology field and relative to Cardiovascular Disease risk. Please congratulate Deasy Irawati and the supervisory team on this PhD study publication. (l-r) Deasy Irawati, John Mamo, Karin Slivkoff-Clark, Mario Soares, Tony James
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Australian Research Council Future Fellowship Award
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 […]
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Baker IDI postdoctoral appointment
Please wish Corey Giles all the best with his pending postdoctoral appointment at the Baker IDI. Corey is essentially printing off his PhD for submission, which included three first author papers, 11 co-authored papers and has two more first author manuscripts in submission mode. Corey will be joining Professor Peter Meikle’s group (lipidomics), who were […]
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ARC Linkage grant success
Please congratulate CHIRI’s Professor Ricardo Mancera (School of Biomedical Sciences) on his recent ARC Linkage grant success with his application titled “Advanced cryobanking for recalcitrant-seeded Australian rainforest plants”. Ricardo was the leading chief investigator on this grant application, which involves researchers from RMIT, UWA, ANSTO, the US Department of Agriculture, University of South Dakota, Kings Park Botanic Garden and […]
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At the forefront – Dr Josh Ramsay
In case you missed this lovely article on one of CHIRI’s rising stars, recently published in The West Australian …… In this special Science on the Swan edition, we profile some of the brightest up-and-coming West Australian researchers and the exciting work they are doing. Ramsay laboratory, School of Biomedical Sciences and Curtin Health Innovation […]
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Journal of Biological Chemistry
It is always great to have papers published and particularly satisfying to announce high impact factor publications. On this occasion, please congratulate Mark, Sebastian and Dharma for their pending publication titled “Structure-based prediction of Wnt binding affinities for Frizzled-type cysteine-rich domains” in the prestigious Journal of Biological Chemistry. (L-R) Mark Agostino, Sebastian Pohl and Arun Dharmarajan
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