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Revisiting the sequenator
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In 1958, Geoff Begg was employed as a junior laboratory assistant to SVI’s first director, Professor Pehr Edman, a pioneer in the field of protein
100 years of insulin – where to from here?
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On this day 100 years ago, 14-year-old type 1 diabetes patient Leonard Thompson lay dying at Toronto General Hospital.
Weighing only 29 kilograms,
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New grants support blood cancer and liver disease research
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SVI projects tackling inherited liver disease and the blood cancer multiple myeloma have been awarded grants from the St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
Liver organoid research in the news
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New SVI research to develop liver ‘organoids’ – mini-liver constructs that replicate the structure and function of human liver – has been highlighted
Our research changed Margaret’s life
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At SVI, the partnership between our researchers and our donors — between altruism and science — has given life to discoveries that otherwise would
Lipoedema diagnostic test, treatments get closer
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New SVI research on lipoedema – a debilitating chronic disease often misdiagnosed as obesity – provides a path to potential drug treatments and
Discovery Fund supports SVI’s first ovarian cancer laboratory
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When SVI supporter Christine Tarascio AM envisaged SVI’s Discovery Fund in 2007, her aim was to build an endowment fund of at least $5 million to
A terrible disease
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“Ugly” is how Bernadette Dennis characterises ovarian cancer, the insidious disease that claimed the lives of both her mother and sister.
“In 1989,
Microscope arrives to thunderous applause
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PhD student Vanessa Tsui has this year welcomed the addition of a new piece of technology to SVI’s research toolkit – the Leica Thunder Imager –
A visionary gift
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Ten years ago, Gerald Snowden’s beloved wife Patricia – with whom he raised their 11 children – passed away with breast cancer.
In the decade that
mRNA: The messenger molecule
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Originally discovered in 1961, messenger RNA (mRNA) is now world-famous as our get-out-of-jail-free card to escaping a locked-down COVID world.
But