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Having one of our talented PhD students share their research with the international research community is amazing in itself but Aleksandra Adamska recently took it up a notch, bringing home the Best Oral Scientific Presentation Award from an international pharmacology conference in Singapore. Aleksandra took to the stage at the ‘International Conference on Pharmacology: Advances […]

  It has been a busy couple of months for Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) liver researcher Dr Ross Graham and his PhD student Clinton Kidman, who have returned from representing CHIRI at back-to-back international engagements and kindly shared these happy snaps of their travels. First stop was attending the Eighth Congress of the […]

You may already know Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) Associate Professor Nina Tirnitz-Parker as the Head of our Liver Disease and Regeneration Laboratory and a current Homeward Bound #4 leadership program participant but here is something new – she has just been elected as a Director on the Board of the Gastroenterological Society of […]

A research team co-led by Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute’s (CHIRI) Professor Arunasalam ‘Dharma’ Dharmarajan has secured funding of $566,276 for three years from the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation, Victoria to define the role of hormones in ovarian cancer. Working with Co-Chief Investigator Associate Professor Pradeep Tanwar from the University of Newcastle’s Gynaecology Oncology Research […]

Friends and potential supporters of the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) recently stepped into our state-of-the-art lab facilities for the rare opportunity to spend a night as a CHIRI researcher. The exclusive, hands-on lab tour and cocktail function provided a unique insight into the institute’s research into chronic diseases of ageing. It also provided […]

Want to get to know one of CHIRI’s PhD students a little better? It will only take a minute! The Australasian Wound and Tissue Repair Society featured a ‘One Minute’ profile on CHIRI PhD student Zalitha Pieterse in its recent newsletter. Zalitha, who is a member of the society, took the opportunity to talk about […]

Two Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) researchers have packed their research and taken it to the world stage at conferences in Bosnia and Herzegovina and London this month. Dr Hani Al-Salami has recently returned from giving a headliner presentation at the CMBEBIH 2019 International Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering in Banja Luka, Bosnia […]

The Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) has a new expert in the burgeoning field of synthetic biology, who will be providing new tools to better understand diseases associated with ageing. Fascinated with engineering and understanding mammalian gene expression, Professor Oliver Rackham’s research focuses on using synthetic biology – reprogramming the functions of molecules and […]

Three Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) researchers involved in a pilot clinical trial are circling in on new ways to improve radiotherapy treatments for head and neck cancers. Working in collaboration with researchers from Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Curtin University, their goal is to manipulate radiotherapy techniques used as the current primary treatment […]

Globetrotting Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) PhD student Ahlima Roumane will go wherever her research journey takes her if it means becoming a better researcher and potentially helping people with some debilitating metabolic disorders. So when the opportunity to pack her bags and head to Scotland for a year to continue work on an […]