Sydney society unites to support Centenary Tanya Plibersek, Richard Champion de Crespigny, Justice Margaret Beazley, Tom Wenkart and many other Sydney luminaries will join Centenary Foundation chairman Joseph Carrozzi, a managing partner of global accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers, at the 2013 Foundation Dinner this Friday, 31 March. They’ll have the opportunity to bid for: Chairman box seats…
Sydney researchers have discovered a new type of immune cell in skin that plays a role in fighting off parasitic invaders such as ticks, mites, and worms, and could be linked to eczema and allergic skin diseases. The team from the Immune Imaging and T cell Laboratories at the Centenary Institute worked with colleagues from…
Sydney team hopes to reduce the burden with research-led intervention 27 March 2013 Liver diseases have an impact on the Australian economy 40 per cent greater than chronic kidney disease and Type 2 diabetes combined, according to a report released today. The report estimates the annual burden of liver diseases in Australia at more than…
A community-wide screening program being trialled in Vietnam aims to create a new model for global TB control In the 1950s and 1960s Australians were accustomed to having regular chest x-rays in a caravan, parked in their suburb, to screen for TB. During this time TB almost (but not quite) disappeared from Australia and the program…
An initiative to stop the spread of TB in Australia, and reduce its impact on our neighbours. A $2.5 million, six-nation initiative to fight tuberculosis has opened at the Centenary Institute, Sydney. It brings together over 14 institutes. Tuberculosis (TB) once killed more Australians than cancer. In 2011 we saw just four deaths. But the…
China’s Ningxia Hospital sees more TB cases a year than the whole of Australia. A new project at the hospital, in collaboration with researchers from the Centenary Institute in Sydney, aims to identify a new way of diagnosing TB and monitoring response to treatment. The research is funded in part by the Australian Respiratory Council.
Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize goes to young Brisbane researcher The winner of the Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize is Dr Jian Yang, from the Diamantina Institute of the University of Queensland. He has solved one of the great puzzles of human genetics—why the genes typically implicated in inherited diseases like schizophrenia, obesity and diabetes…
The winner of the Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize will be announced at 12.30 pm, Thursday 15 November 2012, at a lunch at UBS in Sydney. He will receive $25,000, and a glass trophy designed by Australian sculptor Nick Mount. The 2012 finalists are: Robert McLaughlin, a medical engineer from the University of Western Australia…
Centenary scientists have won over $5 million in the latest NHMRC grant round – with seven research grants and three early career fellowships. The development of a TB vaccine, the genetic regulation of ageing, the fundamental workings of the immune system, the genetic basis of heart disease—these are some of the research areas of key…
A Centenary researcher is off to New Delhi to study the impact on cerebral malaria of the major ingredient of turmeric, curcumin. Dr Saparna Pai has been awarded an Australian Academy of Science Early-Career Australia-India Fellowship to investigate curcumin’s action on immune cells during malaria infection. The Fellowships were announced by the Academy during the…