Please congratulate Dr. Rodrigo Carlessi who won the best poster prize at the Australian Islet Study Group Meeting (AISG 2016) which took place at the RMIT University in Melbourne on the 18th November.  The poster title was ‘GLP-1 receptor signaling promotes β-cell glucose metabolism via mTOR-dependent HIF-1α activation’.  Rodrigo’s supervisor is Prof. Philip Newsholme (School of Biomedical Sciences) and other CHIRI researchers collaborating on this project include Jordan Rowlands, Dr. Vinicius F. Cruzat, Dr. Kevin N. Keane and A/Prof. Cyril Mamotte.

Please congratulate CHIRI colleague (School of Biomedical Sciences), Professor Marco Falasca, recipient of the Avner Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ‘Accelerator Grant 2016′ to fund high quality projects that can clearly demonstrate support for the Foundation’s vision ‘To break through 40 years of no progress by doubling the number of people who survive pancreatic cancer by 2020′.  Read more…

Please congratulate our CHIRI-colleague Brad Zhang (SPH), who relocated his laboratory activities with the multi-centered Genetic origins of Health and Disease unit (MRF Building, CBD), on his recent grant success.  Whilst Brad is focussing principally on diseases affecting children, his methodologies are broadly relevant to CHIRI research foci. Please feel free to contact Brad for any collaborative concepts you may identify.

Molecular mechanisms of preterm birth induced childhood asthma – Yong Song, Peter Noble, Guicheng Zhang – $19,642 Read more…

Please congratulate the following postgraduate students on their CUPSA Awards.

Malini Visweswaran  – ‘CUPSA Thesis Completion Grant 2016′ – provision of additional financial support during completion of the PhD thesis, co-supervised by Professor Arunasalam Dharmarajan (School of Biomedical Sciences) and Adjunct A/Professor Rodney Dilley (Ear Science Centre, UWA).

Abhijeet Deshmukh – ‘International Conference Travel Award’ – for attending the Cancer Stem Cells 2016 conference in Innsbruck Austria, co-supervised by Professor Arunasalam Dharmarajan and Professor Philip Newsholme (School of Biomedical Sciences).

Aleksandra Adamska – ‘International Conference Travel Award’ – for attending the Pancreas 2016 conference in Glasgow, UK in June, co-supervised by Professor Marco Falasca and Professor Philip Newsholme (School of Biomedical Sciences).