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Summer ‘22

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Welcome to a bright and festive summer edition of Illuminate. From ‘thymic soulmates’ across generations to research on preventing heart complications in children, this edition showcases the WEHI discoveries, collaborations and supporters that are making a difference.

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Thymic ‘soulmates’: a research connection spanning six decades
Bright sparks – Targeting inflammatory-driven disease
Joining forces on drug discovery
Improving the outlook for dementia
Dementia: One family’s story of love and loss
New way to prevent heart complications in children
Victorian Government funding accelerates new approaches to vaccine development for ovarian cancer
Academy honour for researcher leading global effort to eradicate anaemia health burden
Landmark tech for mimicking human disease advances cancer research
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