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  • Eye Researcher Awarded Top Australian Research Fellowship
    13 July 2016
    Associate Professor Alex Hewitt from the Centre for Eye Research Australia and The University of Melbourne received top honour from the National Health and Medical Research Council.
  • 2016 SCA Annual Retreat
    14 June 2016
    This year Stem Cells Australia held its Annual Retreat in Werribee Park, just outside of Melbourne, at the historic former seminary now the Mansion Hotel built in 1874 by pioneering pastoralists.
  • Study could deliver new cancer treatment
    03 June 2016
    Scientists at Monash University, in Melbourne, have solved a mystery in molecular biology that could lead to a new way to treat cancer.
  • Heal thyself – Monash University stem cell finding points the way to a faster muscle repair
    20 May 2016
    Melbourne scientists have found the first direct evidence for a speculated stem-cell based mechanism of muscle repair, in work that could lead to longer, healthier lives for the elderly and muscular dystrophy sufferers.
  • Congratulations, Robert Nordon!
    06 May 2016
    UNSW Biomedical engineer, Dr Robert Nordon has been awarded two ARC Linkage grants as the lead investigator.
  • Professor Richard Harvey Elected Fellow of Royal Society
    05 May 2016
    Leading Australian developmental biologist Professor Richard Harvey this week joins scientific luminaries such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Howard Florey and Stephen Hawking as a Fellow of the Royal Society, the oldest continuously operating academy of science in the world.
  • Stem cell and genetic editing may unlock treatments for heart disease
    04 May 2016
    Researchers at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) using cutting edge genetic and stem cell technologies, have found new changes in a gene that cause an enlarged heart, a disease known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
  • Stem Cells Australia 2015 Annual Report now available
    28 April 2016
    In 2015 Stem Cells Australia passed the halfway mark in its term as an ARC Special Research Initiative. The year began with a resounding endorsement of our efforts from the ARC Interim Review of Stem Cells Australia, and a renewal of our funding through 2018.
  • Micro Experiments Have Huge Cellular Impact
    22 April 2016
    Researchers at The University of Queensland have developed a credit card sized device that enables cells to be cultured under thousands of different conditions simultaneously speeding up drug screening.
  • Are Stem-Cell Therapies for Parkinson’s Disease Ready for Clinical Trials?
    19 March 2016
    As stem cell-based therapies are moving rapidly towards clinical trials, treatments for Parkinson’s Disease (PD), an incurable condition, may be on the horizon. A recent announcement of a Phase I/IIa clinical trial involving transplantation of stem cells into the first human subjects has raised hope among patients and sparked discussions in the research community. In a commentary published in the Journal of Parkinson’s Disease, authors propose five key questions that should be addressed as this trial begins.
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