Illuminate 2010 archive

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Illuminate Issue 6, 2010        Illuminate, Issue 6, Summer 2010
  • Institute director Professor Doug Hilton discusses what makes a vibrant research institute
  • WEHI.TV creator / biomedical animator Drew Berry awarded US$500,000 MacArthur Foundation grant
  • Development of an effective vaccine for malaria a step closer
  • Potential targets for treating heart disease exposed
  • Malaria research benefits from six fellowships worth more than $700,000
  • Re-write of long-held belief about how the body’s immune system establishes memory
  • New transplant technology a step toward type 1 diabetes cure
  • Staff profile: Senior postdoctoral fellow Toby Sargeant
  • Staff profile: Postgraduate student Jessie Kiu
Illuminate Issue 5, 2010

       Illuminate, Issue 5, Spring 2010

  • Institute director Professor Doug Hilton discusses the importance of mentorship
  • Gates open on understanding potassium channel controls
  • Immune cells in fat tissue explain link between obesity and diabetes
  • Breast research brings L’Oreal honour
  • Cellular suicide can spur cancer
  • Coeliac’s toxic trio identified
  • Staff profile: Postgraduate student Lina Happo
  • Staff profile:Laboratory head Guillaume Lessene
Illuminate Issue 4, 2010

      Illuminate, Issue 4, Winter 2010

  • Institute director Professor Doug Hilton discusses the importance of discovery in meeting the institute’s strategic objectives
  • Structure of insulin’s docking point identified
  • Dual accolades for Dr Marc Pellegrini
  • Dendritic cell biology inflamed
  • Breast stem cells hormone-sensitive after all
  • Staff profile: Postgraduate student Alex Gout
  • Staff profile: Postdoctoral fellow Freya Fowkes
Illuminate Issue 3, 2010

       Illuminate, Issue 3, Autumn 2010

  • Institute director Professor Doug Hilton discusses the importance of supporting research fellowships
  • Nervous culprit found for Tasmanian devil disease
  • Malaria vaccine candidates revealed
  • Dual winners for Burnet Prize
  • Malaria’s key survival protein identified
  • Pores finding reveals cancer targets
  • Staff profile: Postgraduate student Priyanka Sathe
  • Staff profile: Senior postdoctoral fellow John Wentworth
Illuminate Issue 2, 2009

       Illuminate, Issue 2, Summer 2009/2010

  • Institute director Professor Doug Hilton discusses the importance of government grants and philanthropy to our research successes
  • Research challenges win ARC support
  • Next-gen treatments granted
  • Improving hepatitis C treatments
  • Best medicine for chemist
  • Putting a ‘Fas’ to programmed cell death
  • Malaria research supported
  • Staff profile: Postgraduate student Ashley Ng
  • Staff profile: Senior postdoctoral fellow Peter Czabotar

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