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Wondering what has these three Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute researchers beaming? Conducting research at the Australian Synchrotron of course. Dr Ross Graham, PhD student Clinton Kidman and research assistant James Chasland recently visited the X-ray Fluorescence beamline at the Australian Synchrotron in Melbourne as part of their research into links between iron and fatty […]

  Massive news out of the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute – A research mission led by our Deputy Director Melinda (Lindy) Fitzgerald to help improve the lives of children and adults with traumatic brain injuries has been awarded $50 million in Federal Government funding over the next 10 years. The Mission for Traumatic Brain […]

Two European pharmaceutical company researchers have travelled across the world as part of a new bio-nanotechnology based industrial partnership with the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI). Dr Walter Minnella, a physicist from pharmaceutical company Elvesys in Paris, France and Dr Katrin Borrmann, from MARCOTECH oHG in Muenster, Germany are working in collaboration with CHIRI […]

Better than one in a million – how’s three in a hundred! Congratulations to Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute’s (CHIRI) Professor Christopher Reid, who’s among three Curtin University scientists in a worldwide list of the 100 most-mentioned scholarly research articles online in 2018. Remarkably, Chris made the Altmetric Top 100 list not once, but three […]

With the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute’s (CHIRI) research continuing to grow, so too has its leadership team, with Professor Melinda (Lindy) Fitzgerald being appointed as the inaugural Deputy Director of the institute. Already a CHIRI researcher co-appointed by the Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Sciences and located at the Sarich Neurosciences Research Institute […]

A collaborative team led by Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) researchers is hopeful of inspiring new and innovative prevention strategies to control the burden of metabolic-related conditions after securing funding through a competitive national grants scheme. Funded by the Endeavour College of Natural Health in late 2018, the grant is aimed at mechanistically characterising […]

Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) researchers recently convened in the spectacular setting of the Mounts Bay Sailing Club for a Research Retreat. The day was an opportunity for CHIRI’s research team to consider strategies to enhance their own health and wellbeing, which would in turn would have a positive impact on their professional development […]

Former PhD student Dr Sebastian Pohl and his Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) colleagues have recently had two articles published in premiere redox biology journals. Redox biology has been demonstrated to be critical in the understanding of cancer progression, as well as being studied in the development of therapeutics. Changes in the levels of […]

The Australasian Society for Immunology’s (ASI) Annual Scientific Meeting returned to Perth for the first time in eight years this December. The annual meeting of this broad-based society focused on supporting the discipline of immunology, is rotated around Australia and New Zealand. The meeting was last held in Western Australia in 2010. For the past […]

Two Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) researchers received a total of more than $2.24 million in funding from the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants. Professor Melinda (Lindy) Fitzgerald (CHIRI/Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Sciences) received $1,245,138 as the chief investigator of a research project looking to define […]