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WEHI Press Releases Pre July 2006
The continuing catastrophe of malaria kills up to three million people a year, while infecting and debilitating around 10% of humanity - some 500,000,000 people.
Dr Brendan Crabb has been honoured for his pivotal role in enhancing knowledge of malaria as an essential precondition for developing more effective control measures.
In recent years, the field of malaria investigation has been stimulated by the sequencing of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria. Dr Crabb is a renowned authority in the development of genomic and proteomic technologies that exploit the sequence data to characterize the function of malaria proteins. He has applied this technology to identify and validate vaccine candidate antigens, to understand anti-parasite immunity and to unravel the molecular mechanisms behind the extreme virulence of the parasite. [More...]
Dr Mark Shackleton, a key member of the research team that discovered stem cells in the breast, has won the 2006 Premier’s Award for Medical Research.
Dr Shackleton received the prestigious award from the Premier at a ceremony at Government House today.
He was presented with $16,000 and a trophy from the Victorian Government. The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) will receive $30,000 from the Jack and Robert Smorgon Families Award.
The Premier, Mr Steve Bracks, said, "This discovery of stem cells in the breast has been hailed by cancer experts around the world as one of the most significant in the fight against breast cancer." [More...]
Today marks the launch of a new $5.3 million facility to help Australian researchers solve protein structures.
The Bio21 Collaborative Crystallisation Centre (Bio21-C3) will be opened by the Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry, Matt Viney, MP.
The first of its kind in Australia, the Centre is a multi node research and development consortium designed to develop and enhance protein crystallisation expertise using the latest in automation and robotics.
Protein crystallography allows researchers to understand proteins at the atomic level and unlock their structure. Scientists can then use the information to design drugs for human and animal health, chemicals for plant protection or to solve a multitude of life science problems. [More...]
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A new type of cell that generates crucial cells of the immune system has been discovered at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. With this new knowledge, medical researchers can begin to consider the development of customized immune therapies using this new cell to target specific infections such as HIV, malaria and influenza; certain cancers; and even autoimmune diseases.
Dendritic cells (or “DC”) are specialised white blood cells that patrol the body, searching for infections. DC seize and then internally break apart any infectious organisms that they find. These fragments are then presented on the waving branches or “dendrites” of the DC (see diagrams) to activate the immune system’s killer T cells. These activated T cells then eliminate the existing infection and resist any future attack by memorizing that infection. [More...]
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“Alan Cowman is recognised globally as a pre-eminent malaria researcher. He has made an
enormous impact on infectious disease research, changing people’s lives and health outcomes through his significant
research breakthroughs.”
So begins the citation that led to Professor Cowman being honoured with the most prestigious award of the Australian
Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Lemberg Medal. [More...]
A discovery made at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute provides new insights into enhancing the function of the protein SOCS3, which regulates the response of cells to external stimuli.
SOCS3 (Suppressors of Cytokine Signalling) controls the responses of cells to cytokines (growth factors). It is important that cytokine signalling is properly regulated within the human body. If SOCS3 permits cytokine signalling to be too "loud", then the excess of growth signals can cause crippling inflammatory diseases such as Rheumatoid Arthritis or diseases where cells multiply uncontrollably – cancer. [More...]
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The $230 million Healthy Futures announcement by the Victorian government is a most welcome
confirmation of our state’s
determination to maintain its worldwide pre-eminence in medical research and biotechnology.
The long-term future prosperity of communities will be based on new knowledge and its application
to create high value added products and benefits. New knowledge is an infinite resource, but one that requires
far-sighted investment by governments and the private sector. [More...]
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Humans and chimps share about 99% of the same DNA, so why are the two species profoundly different?
Scientists from WEHI, in collaboration with researchers from Yale University and the University of
Chicago, believe they may have found the practical answer.
Back in 1975, it was theorized by Marie-Claire King and Allan Wilson from the University of
California at Berkeley that differential gene expression could explain the radical differences between beings that
are so genetically similar. [More...]
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The Prime Minister, Mr John Howard, today announced a Commonwealth government contribution
of $50 million towards a seven storey building expansion program. The project will double WEHI’s floor space
and substantially increase medical research capacity for the benefit of WEHI and other research institutions.
The multi-million dollar construction project is expected to be finished within five years.
In a visit coinciding with the Institute’s 90th anniversary, Mr Howard praised the many
advances made in basic biomedical research over the decades and its impact on medicine and health. [More...]
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Zenyth Therapeutics Ltd (ASX:ZTL) and MuriGen Therapeutics, today announced a collaboration agreement to co-develop a new class of drugs that target arthritis and other inflammatory diseases.
The collaboration will aim to develop therapeutic proteins that inhibit the activity of the cytokine granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), or its receptor. G-CSF regulates the production of key inflammatory cells and scientists at Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) have recently demonstrated that blocking G-CSF activity can have a profound impact on the development of inflammatory disease in animal models. Treatment was effective even once disease was established and compared very favourably with blockade of the cytokine TNF, the target of current highly successful treatments. These results are the subject of a recent patent application by WEHI, and that patent has been exclusively licensed to MuriGen; a WEHI start-up company.[More...]
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WEHI's Professor Ray Norton has been accorded the top honour of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Magnetic Resonance, the ANZMAG Medal, for outstanding contributions in the field.
In congratulating him, WEHI's Director, Professor Suzanne Cory, noted that "This honour recognises that Professor Norton's research, teaching, training, leadership and advocacy have helped Victoria to assume a world competitive position in the international arena of magnetic resonance." [More...]
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Tim Bates, a highly respected member of WEHI's Information Technology
Services, passed away tragically on Friday, 11 November, 2005. Tim
suffered from type 1 diabetes and complications arising from his
illness led to his untimely death.
It is Tim's family's wish that a research fund be established by WEHI to receive donations in his memory. Gifts received from family and friends will be dedicated to further fund diabetes research at WEHI's world-leading Autoimmunity and Transplantation Division. [More...]
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Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium scientists from The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, using a mouse model, have discovered the rare stem cell that drives the formation of all breast tissue. This discovery lays an important foundation for understanding how normal breast tissue develops. The identification of the breast stem cell is also likely to provide clues about how breast cancer develops and how rogue cells evade current therapies. [More...]
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Professor Alan Cowman, Dr Brendan Crabb and their research teams at WEHI have identified how the most lethal malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is able to disguise itself from the human immune system.
This discovery builds on the work published in the 9 April 2005 issue of the journal Cell, in which Professor Cowman and Dr Crabb reported that to avoid detection and destruction, the parasite controls expression of 60 key virulence genes, effectively disguising itself from the human host's immune system. The new discovery identifies the DNA sequence that is needed to switch these genes on and off. [More...]
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Dr Stephen Nutt, a Metcalf Fellow, Burnet Prize winner and Laboratory Head in WEHI's
Immunology Division, has been awarded a Pfizer Australia Fellowship, worth $1 million over five years.
Dr Nutt's work focuses on blood cells and the development of the immune system, with
the ultimate aim of providing new therapies for autoimmune diseases and leukaemia.
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The Inaugural Salk Medal for Research Excellence has been presented to Professor Don Metcalf at a prestigious ceremony in La Jolla, California. Professor Metcalf was a nominee for the medal among other eminent scientists worldwide and was awarded the medal on the vote of the scientific staff of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
The medal was designed by Paloma Picasso and
has been introduced by the Salk Institute as part of its fortieth
anniversary celebrations. In the future, the medal will be awarded
on a bi-annual basis.
The medal citation notes that "Metcalf is a pioneer of the bench-to-bedside revolution, designed to take research all the way through to the successful treatment of human disease. His basic research discoveries enabled the development of biological entities to accelerate the regrowth of blood cells in people with cancer, following chemotherapy, bone marrow or peripheral blood transplantation...He and his team discovered the 'colony stimulating factors' (CSFs), proteins that control white blood cell formation and are, therefore, responsible for a person's resistance to infection. His collaborators then documented the effectiveness of GM-CSF and G-CSF (two primary white blood cell regulators) when injected into patients. These blood cell regulators are now in extensive clinical use around the world." [More...]
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Dr Stephen Nutt, from the Immunology Division, has won the Burnet Prize, the most prestigious award bestowed by The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. The announcement was made at WEHI's Annual General Meeting on 10 November 2005.
The award was established through a bequest of Sir Macfarlane Burnet and recognises pioneering research by WEHI's younger scientists.
Dr Nutt was honoured for groundbreaking research that has shown how three factors determine the development of different types of blood cells. These transcription factors - Pax5, Blimp-1 and PU.1- regulate the activity of genes within bone marrow blood cells. [More...]
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The Premier, Mr Bracks and Minister for Innovation, Mr Brumby, today announced $50 million in funding to support a $130 million seven-storey extension to The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Parkville.
The extension will double the floor space of WEHI and enable considerable expansion of research programs, particularly in cancer and infectious diseases, and enhance capacity to translate scientific discoveries to the clinic.
Mr Bracks said, "As we celebrate its 90th anniversary, we honour WEHI as one of the world's leading medical research institutes. This major redevelopment will ensure that WEHI researchers have the necessary facilities to continue to make significant advances in medical science.
Mr Brumby added, "Research undertaken at WEHI has the ability to change people's lives for the better – and Victorian lifescience researchers have powered ahead to lead the nation and the world." [More...]
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Tuesday 27 September 2005 at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
of Medical Research, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria.
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Childhood cancer link to smokers' sperm.
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Ageing population can be a positive.
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Drew Berry, biomedical animator for The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), is a key member of an international team that has won an Emmy Award. [ More...]
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A malaria research team, including WEHI Structural Biologist, Professor Ray Norton, has received a US$1 million grant from the US National Institutes of Health to develop more effective malaria treatments. [ More...]
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Plasmodium falciparum, the most lethal malaria parasite, is a housebreaking villain of the red blood cell world. Like a burglar searching for a way in to his targeted premises, the parasite explores a variety of potential entry points to invade the red blood cells of its human victims. When a weak point is found, the intrusion proceeds. [ More...]
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A dramatic reduction in the impact of malaria is in prospect with a
clinical drug trial to begin in Papua New Guinea early next year. Success in the trial
would open the way to relief in the 10% of humanity infected with this debilitating and
often fatal disease - over 500,000,000 people. [ More...]
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A discovery made at WEHI by the Cooperative Research Centre for Cellular Growth Factors (CRC-CGF),
has led to the selection of an antibody-based drug for full preclinical development as a potential new treatment for
asthma and other respiratory diseases [ More...]
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The value of WEHI's research into devastating blood malignancies has been resoundingly affirmed with the renewal of a five-year US$6.25 million grant from the US-based Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
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An innovative paper published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry has earned Dr Jonathan Baell a significant award from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
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Amid tough global competition, Melbourne has again confirmed
its position as Australia's pre-eminent biomedical destination by securing almost 20%
of the prestigious worldwide medical research awards announced by the US-based Howard
Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). [ More...]
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Scientists at the The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical
Research (WEHI) are part of international teams that have won some of the world's largest
grants to develop treatment for malaria.
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The Commonwealth Government, through the NHMRC, has announced Program
Grants of $100 million for medical research. Congratulations to the team led by WEHI's
Professor Alan Cowman, which has attracted the largest single grant in Australia: $12,940,270.
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Professor David Vaux's research into cell development and apoptosis will
take him to La Trobe University as a Federation Fellow. [ More...]
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Professor Simon Foote, the recently appointed Director of the Menzies
Research Institute in Hobart, looks forward to a further deepening of the working relationship
between WEHI and the Menzies. "We have collaborated very successfully in the past," says
Professor Foote, "especially in research related to genes that influence Multiple Sclerosis.
I'm sure that the future will see our institutes drawn even more closely together in areas of common interest." [ More...]
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Teams led by Professor Alan Cowman and Dr Brendan Crabb at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) have discovered how the malaria parasite, Plasmodiumfalciparum, uses genetic trickery to evade the human body's immune system. This discovery may assist in the eventual development of drugs that disrupt the parasite's ability to disguise itself, therefore leaving the parasite open to detection and destruction. [ More...]
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An international collaboration involving the Walter and Eliza Hall
Institute (WEHI) and Monash Institute of Medical Research (MIMR) has shed valuable
light on a possible genetic cause of male infertility. [ More...]
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A team led by Dr David Huang from The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
of Medical Research (WEHI) has made significant advances in understanding
the signalling pathways that affect the behaviour of cells. This
discovery may assist in the eventual development of more refined
therapies to combat a range of cancers, including blood-borne cancers
such as lymphomas. [ More...]
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Congratulations to the Assistant Director of
WEHI, Professor Nick Nicola, who has been appointed as an Officer
in the General Division of the Order of Australia. [ More...]
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The Australian Institute of Political Science (AIPS) has presented
the Mayne Florey Award 2004 to Professor Peter Colman in recognition
of his groundbreaking structural biology research. The award
and honorarium recognises important discoveries in biomedical
research that support health professionals in preserving or restoring
health.
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A world-leading medical trial conducted in Melbourne
suggests that the onset of type 1 diabetes could be prevented in
many at-risk people by a new nasal insulin vaccine.
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Dr Andrew Roberts, from the Cancer and Haematology Division,
has been awarded the Burnet Prize, the most coveted honour of The
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. The announcement was made at WEHI's
Annual General Meeting on 10 November 2004.
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The newly-completed Gene Technology Access Centre
in Parkville is revolutionizing the teaching of biology and genetics
in Victoria. [ More...]
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A WEHI team comprising Dr Phil Hodgkin, Dr David
Tarlinton, Dr Stephen Nutt and Dr Lynn Corcoran has been awarded
$5,198,635 over 5 years to undertake a unique "systems-wide" analysis
of antibody-producing cells.
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Congratulations to the General Manager of The
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Dr Margaret Brumby, who has been
appointed as a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia – an
honour widely recognised by the initials "AM". [ More...]
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Ben Croker, a final year PhD student in WEHI's
Cancer and Haematology Division, has won this year's Premier's Award
for Medical Research. Premier Steve Bracks presented Ben with the
award at a ceremony at Government House on 31 May 2004.
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Professor Len Harrison from The Walter and Eliza
Hall Institute is the first Australian to win the major American
diabetes research award. He is only the second scientist based outside
the United States to win the prestigious David Rumbough Award for
Scientific Excellence in its thirty-year history.
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Dr James Beeson has been appointed as the inaugural
Miller Fellow at WEHI. This named fellowship is the final of a
trio, named after Nossal, Metcalf and Miller respectively - three
of WEHI's all time great scientists.
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The official voice of the Holy See, L'Osservatore
Romano, has announced the appointment of WEHI Director and molecular
biologist, Professor Suzanne Cory, as a scientific counsellor to
the Vatican.
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Professor Doug Hilton has been elected a Fellow
of the Australian Academy of Science, a most coveted honour. He
has also won the prestigious GSK Award for Research Excellence
for 2004 from GlaxoSmithKline Australia.
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The biomedical animator of The Walter and Eliza
Hall Institute, Drew Berry, is a member of the small international
team that has won the supreme honour of the British Academy of
Film and Television Arts. [More...]
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Bionomics Limited (ASX:BNO, US OTC:BMICY) announced
today that it had signed a letter of intent with the Walter and
Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) to establish a drug discovery collaboration
in the field of ion channels.
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Francis Ndungu and Lucy Ochola, PhD students
from Kenya, have witnessed the impact of malaria close up. They
work at the Kenyan Medical Research Institute in the coastal city
of Kilifi where malaria is endemic and severe. Francis and Lucy
are dedicated to the battle against this seemingly permanent, massive
and transcontinental human catastrophe. [ More...]
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The official opening today of a world-class Biotechnology
Centre at Bundoora strengthens Melbourne as the biotech capital
of Australia.
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The winner of most prestigious award of The Walter and Eliza
Hall Institute, the Burnet Prize, was announced at the Institute's
Annual General Meeting on 10 November 2003.
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In world-leading research, Melbourne scientists
are working towards the development of a vaccine to assist millions
of people globally who suffer from coeliac disease and are unable
to eat food, including bread and pasta, that contains gluten.
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A team of Melbourne medical researchers, including
Andreas Strasser, Andreas Villunger, Ewa Michalak Leigh Coultas
and Jerry Adams have won a two-year worldwide race to find out
how cancer cells are killed by certain therapies.
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FROM THE PRIME MINISTER, THE HON. JOHN HOWARD:
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Emeritus Professor
Jacques Miller AC from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute is the
winner of the $300,000.00 Prime Minister's Prize for Science. [More...]
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Dr David
Vaux from The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute has won the prestigious
Victoria Prize for 2003. Awarded by the Victorian State Government,
the annual prize recognises extraordinary achievement and innovation
in the fields of science, technology or engineering. [More...]
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Medical researchers at The Walter and Eliza Hall
Institute have added a significant new technology to the front line
battle against cancer. Thanks to a $1million donation from the Australian
Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF), researchers at the institute are
able to use the sophisticated techniques of structural biology, with
the introduction of a state of the art x-ray crystallography machine.
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Congratulations to Professor Jacques Miller, who has been
awarded the highest Australian honour: Companion in the Order of
Australia or AC. Professor Miller has been recognised for his lifelong
contributions to advancing knowledge about the immune system. [More...]
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A WEHI team, led by Professor Leonard Harrison at the
forefront of Type 1 diabetes research, will receive more than $5
million over five years to further investigate the genetic and environmental
factors underlying this form of diabetes. [More...]
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Australia has moved to the forefront of an international
search for a cure for coeliac disease with the launch in Melbourne
today of a new organisation to fund and coordinate research into
this widespread but little known disease. [More...]
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A team of scientists at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
have made a discovery that could lead to a new clinical approach
to the prevention of type 1 diabetes. [More...]
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Congratulations for this superb achievement
to WEHI's Dr Andreas Strasser and Dr David Vaux. They are two of
only sixteen new Fellows elected to the Academy annually in recognition
of careers that have significantly advanced the world's scientific
knowledge. Also elected was Professor Perry Bartlett, until recently
the Head of WEHI's Development and Neurobiology Group, now Professor
(Foundation Chair) of Molecular Neuroscience, School of Biomedical
Science, University of Queensland. [ More...]
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Scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical
Research and the University of Otago, New Zealand, have made an important
discovery that will assist in designing new drugs to treat cancer
and autoimmune diseases by directly triggering cell death in rogue
cells. The important element is a newly discovered protective "tail" sitting
in a molecular groove on a key cell death regulator. The tail can
be forced aside to allow a death signal to cause cellular destruction.
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Why are some people naturally resistant to malaria while
others are highly susceptible? More specifically, why do some infected
people suffer only relatively mild symptoms, while others suffer
severe inflammation, convulsions, haemorrhaging and death? [More...]
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Professor Bob Horvitz, joint winner of the 2002
Nobel Prize for Medicine, and Professor Mary-Claire King, eminent
breast cancer researcher, will visit Melbourne this month. Both will
be keynote speakers at the Lorne Cancer Conference, held at 'Erskine
on the Beach'. [More...]
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A recent discovery by Melbourne scientists may
have significant implications for the control of colorectal cancers,
Australia's second most common cause of cancer death. [More...]
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An international team of scientists, jointly led by Professor
Alan Cowman and Dr Alex Maier from The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute,
has found that Melanesian populations in and around Papua New Guinea
have naturally developed mutations that block or reduce the severity
of malaria infections. [ More...]
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Eight research projects spearheaded by WEHI scientists
have been successful in the National Health and Medical Research
Council (NHMRC) annual funding round announced recently by the
Federal Minister for Health, Senator Kay Patterson. [More...]
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The most prestigious award of The Walter and Eliza Hall
Institute, the Burnet Prize, was presented to Dr Philippe Bouillet
of the Molecular Genetics of Cancer Division at the Institute's Annual
General Meeting on 11 November 2002. The Burnet Prize, established
through a bequest of Sir Macfarlane Burnet, recognizes outstanding
research by younger scientists in the Institute. [More...]
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Scientists from The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute,
The University of Queensland and The University of Melbourne have
made a discovery that may have significant implications for the
future treatment of brain injuries and neuro-degenerative diseases. [More...]
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Scientists at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
have made a discovery about the death of cells that has significant
implications for the future treatment of cancer and autoimmune
and degenerative diseases. The discovery has emerged from studies
on how cells are programmed to die, carried out by a team including
PhD student Vanessa Marsden, Dr Andreas Strasser and Professor
Jerry Adams. [More...]
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A collaborative group of Australian scientists has won
the race to determine the three dimensional structure of an important
protein molecule in humans.[More...]
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The funding of three Program Grants by the NHMRC
has secured new rounds of pioneering research at The Walter and
Eliza Hall Institute. [More...]
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Pioneering research conducted by a Melbourne scientist
has the potential to revolutionise the prevention of malaria, a
disease that kills millions of people every year. A team led by
Dr Louis Schofield from The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of
Medical Research has developed a vaccine that has blocked the toxic
effects of the malaria parasite in experimental mice. [More...]
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A team of researchers led by Dr Grant Morahan from The
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research has made a
significant discovery about a gene implicated in childhood asthma.
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Professor Suzanne Cory, Director of The Walter and Eliza
Hall Institute of Medical Research, has been awarded the prestigious
Royal Medal of the London-based Royal Society. [More...]
Professor Suzanne Cory, Director of The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
of Medical Research, has been elected to the French Academy of Science
as an Associate Foreign Member. Professor Cory is the first Australian
woman to be so honoured. [More...]
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AusIndustry has
announced the award of a $250,000 Biotechnology Innovation Fund (BIF)
grant to start-up biotech company, Genera Biosystems, a new genomics
company associated with the The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of
Medical Research. [More...]
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... a team of researchers at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
with Dr Andreas Strasser, Dr Philippe Bouillet and Professors Suzanne
Cory and Jerry Adams have made a significant advance in understanding
the system that regulates cell survival, self-destruction and mistaken
identity. [More...]
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Australia
Post has honoured five medical scientists, including Sir
Gustav Nossal and Professor Donald Metcalf, as "Australian
Legends" through an issue of commemorative stamps. [More...]
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Dr Brendan Crabb, a laboratory head in the Infection and
Immunity Division of The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, has been
honored with the Committee for Melbourne Achiever Award 2001.
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One of Australia's all-time greatest scientists, Professor Donald
Metcalf of The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,
has been honoured with the Prime Minister's Prize for Science for
2001. The Prize is for "an outstanding specific achievement in
any area of science, promoting human welfare." [More...]
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To maintain healthy tissues, any cells that become damaged must
eliminate themselves. This process of programmed cell death, termed
apoptosis, must be carefully controlled. If too few cells die,
a tumour may result; whereas if too many die, a degenerative disease
such as Altzheimer's may develop. [More...]
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What is bioinformatics? Why is it vital for Australian bioscience
to embrace it? Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care, Dr Michael
Wooldridge, has opened a new Bioinformatics Centre at the Walter
and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. [More...]
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The Australian Genome Research Facility (AGRF) is poised
to drive further ahead in the science of genomics, thanks to a $14m
grant announced in Canberra recently by the Minister for Science, Industry
and Resources, Senator Nick Minchin. [More...]
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Discoveries by scientists at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
of Medical Research may hold the key to the regeneration of damaged
nerve cells in the brain. Headed by Dr Perry Bartlett, the scientific
team has succeeded in isolating, from the adult brain in mice,
stem cells that can develop into new nerve cells. [More...]
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A team of scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of
Medical Research has been awarded A$15 million to establish a new
Specialized Center of Research into leukemia. [More...]
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Dr Michael Wooldridge, Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care,
announced on 19 July 2001 that two teams of researchers headed
by scientists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical
Research will receive funding of $7.36 million to conduct world-leading
research into type 1 diabetes, a disease that affects over 100,000
Australians. [More...]
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At just thirty-six years of age, Dr Doug Hilton has a solid record
of achievement that sets him apart from the pack. His many honors
and awards include the prestigious Gottschalk Medal from the Australian
Academy of Science and the Amgen-ASMR Medical Research Week Award
for 2000.
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Professor Jacques Miller, from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
of Medical Research in Parkville, has been awarded the prestigious
Copley Medal by the Royal Society in London.
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DNA science education is in for a huge boost, thanks to a major
Victorian government grant to GTAC -
the Gene Technology Access Centre.
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"The Melbourne Brain Genome Project" has been launched,
thanks to a grant from the NHMRC.
The project will study gene expression in normal mice and specific
mouse models that mimic human diseases including Down syndrome,
Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease .
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Professor Suzanne Cory has won the prestigious L'Oréal
/ UNESCO Women in Science Award for 2001. Professor Cory's Award
is in recognition of the outstanding quality of her research work
in the field of molecular biology of the immune system and her
singular contribution to leading-edge scientific advances.
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Australian scientists led by Dr. Grant Morahan at the Walter and
Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne have made
a pioneering genetic discovery about the causes of the onset of
type 1 or insulin-dependent diabetes, also called juvenile diabetes.
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