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$10.2 million to target type 1 diabetes - December 15th, 2011
SVI’s Professor Tom Kay and A/Prof Helen Thomas – together with colleagues from The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Sydney’s Westmead Hospital...
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$2 million boost to SVI cancer research - November 24th, 2011
SVI researchers last night received a $2 million grant from the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) to help develop new treatments for...
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SVI’s Professor Michael Parker wins Ramaciotti Medal - November 14th, 2011
In a career that spans more than 25 years, Professor Parker’s research has made major advances in the field of protein crystallography, a process...
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A $10 million boost to Institute research - October 17th, 2011
Research at SVI has been boosted by almost $10 million in funding announced in the most recent round of the Federal Government’s National Health...
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Illuminating stuff - August 1st, 2011
Fireflies are unprepossessing insects: stubby and brown, about a centimeter long, with a set of dark grey wings folded over their backs. However,...
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The woman’s heart - May 2nd, 2011
Heart disease is Australia's number one killer. In fact, it kills four times as many women as breast cancer does, but many women are not aware of...
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On beer and bread - December 1st, 2010
Jörg Heierhorst is passionate about yeast – the simple single-celled organism that helps us bake bread and brew beer. Despite his Germanic...
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Shuffling the deck - November 1st, 2010
The autoimmune disease type 1 diabetes (T1D), also known as juvenile diabetes, is diagnosed in approximately 70,000 children worldwide per year....
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SVI scientist receives top award for bone research - October 1st, 2010
Bone research specialist Dr Natalie Sims from St Vincent Institute (SVI) has been awarded the prestigious Fuller Albright Award from the American...
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Rik’s hope - March 1st, 2010
Hope for breast cancer sufferers – the National Breast Cancer Foundation has awarded a $5 million collaborative grant to SVI’s Professor Erik (Rik)...
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In their bones - December 1st, 2009
Professor Jack Martin has worked on understanding the way that cells of the bone communicate with each other for almost as long as his colleague Dr...
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Catching the ‘flu - December 1st, 2009
SVI’s Professor Michael Parker was recently awarded a special fast-tracked NHMRC grant for his research into the swine flu virus. The first Victorian...
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Australian scientists unravel Leukaemia link - August 13th, 2008
Scientists have unravelled the structure of a cell signalling receptor in the blood control system which when damaged is responsible for diseases...
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