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Congratulations to Curtin University PhD student Jessica Murray, who has been awarded a prestigious Forrest Research Foundation Scholarship and chosen to use it to undertake important melanoma research with us at CHIRI. Jessica, who last year completed her Honours under the supervision of CHIRI cancer and immunology researchers Dr Danielle Dye and Professor Deirdre Coombe, […]

CHIRI-led research recently published in the prestigious Journal of Biological Chemistry examined a specialised channel in the human body that transports proteins inside cells, to provide important insights for our research into age-associated diseases, including cancer. The research was carried out in our labs by lead author CHIRI’s Dr Carl Mousley, a molecular cell biologist, […]

This year, the 24th Human Genome Meeting HGM2020 will be held in Perth and Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) researchers Julian Heng, Jessica Gaff and Shelley Waters will be celebrating months of hard work to help get the show on the road as members of the conference local organising committees. Julian is helping to […]

Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) bio-nanotechnology researcher Dr Hani Al-Salami has two international research projects ‘on the horizon’, with the European Union (EU) providing funds totalling $5.5 million (€3.332 million) over five years, through the EU-Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program. The grants are designed to encourages world-class science by removing barriers to knowledge, […]

The Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) wishes all of our CHIRI-associated PhD, Masters and Honours students, and members of the wider CHIRI community who are graduating this week, our warmest congratulations on their achievement. As a university-based institute, CHIRI is fortunate to have access to an amazing cohort of talented students from multiple disciplines, […]

The Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) is celebrating a successful bid for Australian Research Council (ARC) facilities funding with its Director Professor John Mamo leading a team of WA-based researchers receiving $620,000 to establish the state’s only super-rapid speed confocal microscopy facility at Curtin University. The funding, provided under the ARC’s Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment […]

Two Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) researchers are part of a high-performing, multi-disciplinary research team working together over the next five years to identify potential new preventions for lung disease. CHIRI’s Professor Fergal O’Gara is a Chief Investigator and Dr Jose Caparros-Martin an Associate Investigator on the project, which will receive a $5 million […]

PhD student Tahlia Bastholm and her co-supervisor Dr Joshua Ramsay have received a handy funding boost from the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute to take their collaborative research abroad. CHIRI will provide a small grant to support Tahlia’s travel to the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom to collect additional data for their research, […]

Curtin University researchers have developed tiny capsules that are able to effectively target the liver and pancreas reducing the inflammatory effects of type two diabetes. The research, published in the Nature journal, Scientific Reports, explored whether the tiny capsules, developed using bio-nanotechnologies and filled with a combination of human-based bile acids and the lipid-lowering drug […]

Congratulations to Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute’s (CHIRI) Dr Connie Jackaman, on her election as Honorary Secretary of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology (ASI) and part of the ASI Executive team. Connie’s appointment was announced at ASI’s annual general meeting in Adelaide this month, where CHIRI PhD student Lelinh Duong won the […]