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Please welcome Dr Matthew Albrecht, an NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow who extends CHIRI’s expertise in preclinical and clinical neurological disorders theme. Matthew graduated from his PhD (Pharmacology, UWA) in 2012 studying the effects of dexamphetamine on electrophysiology, phenomenology, and behaviour associated with schizophrenia in human subjects. 

Please welcome two recent outstanding research appointments, Professor Melinda (Lindy) Fitzgerald and Associate Professor Julian Heng. Lindy and Julian will be physically located at the Sarich Neuroscience Research Institute, but are fully affiliated with the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI). Lindy and Julian add significant capacity to the Neurological research pillar within CHIRI and […]

Please join us in welcoming Dr Yu Yu to the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute.

We would like to congratulate Dr Sheena Regan, co-supervised by Prof Arunasalam Dharmarajan, who has been awarded a “Society for Reproductive Biology Early Career Researcher Collaborative Research Travel Award”.  The ECR Collaborative Research Grants are a new initiative from the SRB.  These awards will fund the travel of an ECR to the institution of another ECR […]

Congratulations to Dr. Mark Agostino, who has received a Raine Priming Grant for 2017/2018 for his project titled ‘Structural characterization of the Wnt signalling pathway’. 

Yet another accolade for one of our outstanding emerging young scientists.  Please congratulate Dr. Evelyne Deplazes for being recognised as the ‘Young Biophysicist of the Year’  by the Australian Society for Biophysics (ASB). The award is a prestigous and coveted award recognising exceptional talent.

Dr. Ryusuke Takechi has been awarded a NHMRC Career Development Fellowship.  The title of his Fellowship Award is ‘Restoration of diabetes associated cognitive deficits through the modulation of cerebrovascular integrity’. Congratulations Ryu!

Please congratulate Dr. Rodrigo Carlessi who won the best poster prize at the Australian Islet Study Group Meeting (AISG 2016) which took place at the RMIT University in Melbourne on the 18th November.  The poster title was ‘GLP-1 receptor signaling promotes β-cell glucose metabolism via mTOR-dependent HIF-1α activation’.  Rodrigo’s supervisor is Prof. Philip Newsholme (School of […]

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′.