2024 Charity Golf Day
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2024 Charity Golf Day

Our Charity Golf Day returns for 2024! Register today to support the valuable medical research being undertaken by SVI.

Blood cancer breakthrough
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March 2024

Blood cancer breakthrough

The head of SVI's DNA Damage & Cancer Therapy Lab, Associate Professor Elaine Sanij and her collaborators have made a remarkable breakthrough on a new way to potentially treat one of the most common and aggressive forms of blood cancer.

Congratulations to Dr Matthew Lacorcia
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February 2024

Congratulations to Dr Matthew Lacorcia

Matt has been awarded a JDRF Postdoctoral Fellowship for his work on developing an early diagnostic test for type 1 diabetes.

Congratulations to Professor André La Gerche
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February 2024

Congratulations to Professor André La Gerche

Congratulations to André La Gerche on his promotion to Professor.

New early diagnostic test for Friedreich ataxia heart disease
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January 2024

New early diagnostic test for Friedreich ataxia heart disease

Associate Professor Shiang (MAX) Lim has been awarded funding to work on the development of a new, non-invasive test to diagnose and monitor heart disease in people with a genetic condition that, up until now, has made diagnosis impossible.

Exhausting study
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January 2024

Exhausting study

In an article published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), A/Prof Bala Krishna Murthy turned this concept of immune exhaustion on its head, to stop immune cells from destroying insulin-producing cells in type 1 diabetes.

Wildely optimistic
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January 2024

Wildely optimistic

In late 2023, Associate Professor Elaine Sanij and SVI’s Christine Martin Fellow, Dr Jian Kang, were awarded two grants by The Barrie Dalgleish Centre for Myeloma and Related Blood Cancers. Read more about how Elaine's work is being supported by someone with the disease Kare Wilde.

Are elite athletes more at risk from heart disease?
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December 2023

Are elite athletes more at risk from heart disease?

A landmark new study published in Circulation has found that certain genes in elite athletes could also be responsible for a higher risk of heart disease.