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At the frontier of medicine: Hope vs Hype and the promise of stem cells
18 November 2019

Professor Megan Munsie is the Head of the Ethics, Engagement and Policy Program at Stem Cells Australia and the Deputy Director of the University of Melbourne’ Centre for Stem Cell Systems, and is interested in the implications of stem cell science both in the lab and in the community.
At the frontier of medicine: seeing eye disease clearly with stem cells
14 November 2019

Professor Alice Pébay from the University of Melbourne, is creating models of the eye to investigate genetic diseases of the eye, many of which have no intervention or cure.
Tomorrow's Medicine: Discoveries hidden in big data
13 November 2019

Associate Professor Jessica Mar heads up the Mar Group at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, part of the University of Queensland. Her research focuses on developing statistical methods for understanding how genetic regulation goes wrong, and how that affects human disease.
At the frontier of medicine: Studying heart development one cell at a time
12 November 2019

Dr Nathan Palpant at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland is trying to understand how the heart develops, at an individual cell level, to better explore drugs that might treat the injured heart following a heart attack.
At the frontier of tomorrow’s medicine: Modelling the brain to understand neurodegenerative diseases.
12 November 2019

Professor Ernst Wolvetang uses human induced pluripotent stem cells, cells reprogrammed from a patient’s skin cell, to model the brain and understand neurodegenerative diseases and possible treatment opportunities.
At the frontier of tomorrow’s medicine: using big data to understand ageing and disease
12 November 2019

Associate Professor Jessica Mar is a group leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland focussing on using big data to understand ageing and disease.
Tomorrow's Medicine: How to mend a broken heart
11 November 2019

Dr Mirana Ramialison and her colleagues are trying to determine what makes a stem cell a stem cell. It is a quest that might unlock solutions to congenital heart disease.
Tomorrow's Medicine: Having the guts to make a difference
08 November 2019

A functional intestinal system is essential for life but is also vulnerable to disease. Professor Helen Abud and her collaborators have devised an ingenious method of studying the specialised cells in the gut and what goes wrong when damage occurs or cancer is initiated.
Tomorrow's medicine: The plentiful promise of the pluripotent
06 November 2019

The potential of using stem cells to treat injury and disease is often loudly proclaimed, with justification. But culturing stem cell lines carries risks. This is one of the key research targets for a group led by Associate Professor Andrew Laslett
2019 Metcalf Prize winners are using stem cells to understand how the heart develops and the plasticity of breasts
04 November 2019

Associate Professor James Hudson of the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and Dr Felicity Davis of the University of Queensland’s Mater Research Institute have both received $50,000 Metcalf Prizes from the National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia in recognition of their leadership in stem cell research.

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