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CHIRI hosts EU Ambassador – Horizon 2020 funding of MEDLEM project

The Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute was privileged to host His Excellency, the European Union Ambassador, Mr Michael Pulch. The primary purpose for the Ambassador’s visit was to celebrate and learn more about Curtin University-CHIRI’s Dr Hani Al-Salami’s involvement as a Chief Investigator in the MEDLEM project, which has received $500K funding through the Horizon […]

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Visit to CHIRI – EU-Australian consortium

The first group of European researchers with expertise in biochemical and nano-technological science are visiting Dr Hani Al-Salami’s lab, in a collaborative project funded by the prestigious EU Horizon 2020 grant. Dr Bojan Stanimirov (right) and Dr Nebojsa Pavlovic (left) are part of the EU-Australian consortium who secured an EU Horizon 2020 funding (2016; 4 […]

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CHIRI Seminar Series – Professor Andrew Whitehouse

Prof Andrew Whitehouse Head, Autism Research Team Telethon Kids Institute “Can we prevent disability in autism through infant interventions? Re-writing the rulebook” Thursday August 24 – 1:00pm to 2:00pm Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley Building 401 – Room 001:LT Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder, characterised by deficits in social communication ability and […]

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CCTRM Annual Symposium

Centre for Cell Therapy & Regenerative Medicine Annual Research Symposium 12th April 2017 – 8.45am-5.00pm, Curtin University, Building 213, Room 104 For further information, please select the links below: CCTRM Plenary Speakers Program

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Avner Pancreatic Cancer Foundation visit to CHIRI

Avner Pancreatic Cancer Foundation Director, Caroline Kelly visited Curtin Innovation Research Institute at Curtin University on Friday 24th March 2017 to meet the research group recipient of one of the 2016 Avner Pancreatic Cancer Foundation Accelerator Grants.

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CCTRM Annual Research Symposium

On behalf of the organising committee we are pleased to announce that this year’s CCTRM Annual Research Symposium will be hosted by Curtin University on 12th April 2017, venue: Tim Winton Theatre, Building 213.104:LT, Curtin University. Confirmed Invited keynote speakers include Professor Andrew Elefanty, Professor David Becker and Professor Geoffrey Laurent. Attendance at the symposium is free but for […]

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CHIRI Seminar Series – 6/4/2017 – Building 405.201:LT

The next seminar in the CHIRI Seminar series is Thursday, 6th April at 1.00pm, presented by A/Prof Julian Heng from the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute.  The title of is talk is “Interpreting the architecture of genetic mutations in brain developmental disorders and early onset neurodegeneration”.  A light lunch will be provided from 12.15pm onwards in room 305:139 […]

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CHIRI Seminar Series 27/10/16

Thursday, 27 October – 1.00pm-2.00pm – B401:002:LT Prof. Darryl Eyles Neurobiology Director Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research Queensland Brain Institute The University of Queensland “The impact of vitamin D deficiency on the developing brain and long-term outcomes in adult offspring.” In collaboration with Prof John McGrath we have established that low levels of vitamin D […]

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CHIRI Seminar Series – 29/9/16

Prof Michael Kassiou, The University of Sydney  Thursday 29th September – 1.00pm to 2.00pm Building 302:001:LT “Neuroinflammatory Targets in CNS Drug Discovery” Irrespective of the phenotype, e.g. Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD) or schizophrenia, the most consistent finding in brain diseases is pronounced changes in the functional state of microglia – the cells responsible […]

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Special guests

Recently, at relatively short notice we had the opportunity to host Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Professor Ian Smith and ARC Research Fellow and Honorary NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Professor James Woodstock, both from Monash University.  Ian and James were very impressed with the facilities and organisational structure of CHIRI.  Ian is keen to explore […]

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