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Fast-tracking new medicines

The National Drug Discovery Centre (NDDC) is open to the Australian medical research community.

With the NDDC researchers have access to advanced high-throughput screening and the latest robotic technologies in a fully staffed facility.

Apply for an Australian government-subsidised screening campaign, and fast track your discoveries into new medicines.
 

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News

Female researcher smiling at camera International team discovers new human autoinflammatory disease

Scientists from Australia and the US have discovered and identified the genetic cause of a previously unknown human autoinflammatory disease.
12 December 2019
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Two scientists smiling at camera, standing in front of purple screen New genetic cause of epilepsy found

Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have contributed to a decades-long global effort that has revealed two new gene mutations that cause a rare type of epilepsy.
9 December 2019
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Animation of tumour growing in breast tissue $3.5M ACRF grant to tackle cancer complexity

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have won a $3.5 million ACRF grant to conquer the biggest challenges in cancer today – predicting and improving patients’ treatment response and overcoming drug resistance.
28 November 2019
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Researchers standing together CSL Florey Medal recognises cell death research pioneers

Professor David Vaux AO and Professor Andreas Strasser have been jointly awarded the 2019 CSL Florey Medal for establishing a new field of research – the molecular biology of programmed cell death.
27 November 2019
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Events

Dr Diane Hanna - Blood Cells and Blood Cancer division
Mon, 16/12/2019 - 3:00pm to Mon, 16/12/2019 - 4:00pm

Identifying and overcoming therapeutic resistance in high-risk acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

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Carole Bourquin - University of Geneva
Tue, 17/12/2019 - 10:00am to Tue, 17/12/2019 - 11:00am

​A new target to enhance the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy? Intratumoral HMGB1 controls the anticancer immune response

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Professor Elizabeth Murchison - University of Cambridge
Wed, 18/12/2019 - 11:00am to Wed, 18/12/2019 - 12:00pm

​Origins and evolution of transmissible cancers

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Shaun Jackson - University of Washington School of Medicine
Thu, 19/12/2019 - 1:00pm to Thu, 19/12/2019 - 2:00pm

​Alterations in B cell signaling thresholds impacting the pathogenesis of humoral autoimmunity

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