- Launch 15 October 2014 from 11 am at Building 75 (STRIP Building), Monash University, Clayton. Click for map.
- With Professor Aidan Byrne, CEO of the Australian Research Council and MP Michael Sukkar.
The $39 million ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging launches today with the mission of changing the way we see the immune system.
Understanding our immune system is central to fighting cancer and infectious diseases. And understanding why our immune system sometimes over-reacts is critical to tackling auto-immune diseases.
Yet many of the workings of our immune systems are a mystery, especially at a molecular level – for example:
- How does trauma and infection trigger inflammation?
- How does a T-cell recognise an infected and cancerous cell?
- And how does it persuade other T-cells to join the fight?
- What happens when our immune system over-reacts?
- How is coeliac disease triggered?
- How do diabetes and other autoimmune diseases start?
- How can we persuade the immune system to accept organ transplants?
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