News & Events

Latest News

• Frontiers of Medicine: Making the right cell from stem cells

  23 April 2018

  A powerhouse trio of laboratories is refining the way of making blood and heart cells, bringing future therapies closer to reality.
• Cell reprogrammer Jose Polo promoted to Professor

  18 April 2018

  Jose Polo, group leader and senior researcher at Monash University, has been promoted to a Professor.
• Melbourne stem cell science use nanobiomaterials to combat silent epidemic

  12 April 2018

  Stem cells—combined with a biomaterial growing environment they need—may offer an alternative treatment for the one-in-four women affected by pelvic organ prolapse.

Events

• Stem Cell Research - Now and in the Future

  18 June 2018

  Join us at this FREE event, where leading Australian researchers discuss how stem cells could change the future of medicine. Learn more about stem cell research and have your questions answered.
• Clinical Advances in Stem Cell Research

  19 June 2018

  The ISSCR’s Clinical Advances in Stem Cell Research program will highlight a diverse range of current and future cell and gene therapy approaches and the underlying technologies that make them possible. Speakers from industry and academics will discuss their approaches to treating disease in this clinically-focused program.
• ISSCR 2018 - Melbourne

  20 June 2018

  The meeting brings together some 3500 stem cell researchers and clinicians from around the world to share the latest developments in stem cell research
• Australian Biology of Aging Conference 2018

  25 June 2018

  We are pleased to announce the 3rd Australian Biology of Ageing conference, with a particular focus on Stem Cells, Ageing & Rejuvenation. The conference will cover the latest findings across many topics in ageing relevant basic biomedical researches. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.
• Organoids: Modelling Organ Development and Disease in 3D Culture

  10 September 2018

  This meeting will bring together researchers from different fields to enhance our understanding of how organoids can be formed and maintained, how they can be used to study disease and how we might eventually use them to regenerate and replace human organ tissue.
• 2018 Australasian Genomic Technologies Conference

  04 November 2018

  AGTA18 will cover all aspects of genomic science, technologies and their applications. Research sessions include Cancer Genomics, Neurogenetics, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Plant and Animal Genomics, Microbial and Metagenomics, Ancient DNA as well as highlights of emerging genomic technologies.