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The brain is a complex maze but advances in neuroscience have helped researchers make remarkable progress to learn more about it in recent years. Researchers at the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) are hopeful that better outcomes for patients with degenerative brain diseases such as Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease are closer than […]

Curtin University and CHIRI’s Associate Professor Nina Tirnitz-Parker and Director of the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, UWA Professor Peter Leedman (pictured above right), will co-lead a collaborative team of researchers testing new treatments for primary liver cancer at a new $10.8 million world-class research centre for Perth. Announced this week, the centre will […]

The Western Australian Cancer Single Cell Consortium has awarded funding of $240,000 to research led by Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) researcher Dr Rodrigo Carlessi, with our Associate Professor Nina Tirnitz-Parker, to investigate how damaged liver cells can predict liver cancer prior to its development. Rodrigo and Nina, from Curtin University’s School of Pharmacy […]

A research collaboration led by Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) Director Professor John Mamo will get to trial a new treatment for the most common form of Alzheimer’s disease with the announcement of $1.72 million in Federal Government funding to Curtin University. The multi-disciplinary team has identified a novel drug, that can supress the […]

A Curtin University research project led by CHIRI’s Associate Professor Pritinder Kaur, from the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, will receive $737,689 in funding to develop a 3D printing-based system to revolutionise the treatment of skin trauma. Supported by a Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Stem Cell Therapies 2020 grant, the research has the […]

A CHIRI-led research collaboration at Curtin University has found a new link between sub-concussion and motor dysfunction in a study designed to replicate the impact suffered by some sport players. Recently published in the journal Frontiers in Neurology, the research is led by CHIRI’s Associate Professor Ryu Takechi, from Curtin’s School of Public Health, whose […]

A Curtin University dog cancer treatment trial led by Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute’s Associate Professor Delia Nelson, with long-time involvement from Research Associate Stephen Proksch (both from Curtin’s School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences), has tails and chins wagging, raising hopes for a more effective immunotherapy treatment of an aggressive cancer that is also […]

USA-based research repurposing non-profit, Cures Within Reach, has awarded Curtin University $89,000 in funding for a research project led by Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) researchers working to formulate tissue-targeting therapeutics to treat the inner ear disorder Meniere’s disease. With the disease increasingly common in older aged subjects, and in some people a consequence […]

Visualise this – you have 60 seconds to communicate your PhD thesis through a digital display and your topic is links between chronic stress and Alzheimer’s disease. Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) PhD student Ayeisha Milligan Armstrong recently took up the challenge and earned herself third place and a $100 prize in the national […]

Want to know more about the research we do at CHIRI? What better way to share it with you than by profiling some of our amazing team of researchers and their important work to find new preventions and treatments for a range of age-related diseases? Our multi-disciplinary team works with a talented cohort of research […]