Welcoming a funding boost announced by Health Minister Plibersek today, Professor Warwick Britton, head of Centenary Institute’s tuberculosis research program, said, “We need to be helping countries like Papua New Guinea come to grips with the problems of TB control.
Today is World Hepatitis Day and it brings good news and bad news. The bad news is that hepatitis is still a serious condition which affects nearly 400,000 Australians putting them on a course to serious liver disease. “The good news is that treatment is now less invasive, of shorter duration, much more effective—and diagnosis…
One large steppe for liver research Driving along the Pamir Highway in Tajikistan at 4000 m above sea level or through the Mongolian desert is a far cry from working on the genetics of hepatitis C in a laboratory in central Sydney. But that’s the transition Wil d’Avigdor, a PhD student from the Liver Injury…
Four Australians associated with the Centenary Institute have been recognised in today’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list. The Board of Governors of the Centenary Institute congratulates Professor Mathew Vadas AO, Executive Director, on becoming an Officer of the Order of Australia Professor John Rasko AO, Head of the Gene and Stem Cell Therapy Program, on becoming…
After “astonishing” preliminary results from new drugs As the burden of Hepatitis C (HCV) associated liver failure and liver cancer rises in our community so hepatitis C therapy is undergoing radical and rapid change, says Centenary’s Prof Geoff McCaughan.
A who’s who of Sydney society comes together tonight to support the hunt for life-saving new treatments in the vast databases collected by the Centenary Institute’s medical researchers.
Australian and Vietnamese medical researchers are meeting in Sydney this week to plan their next move against tuberculosis (TB), a disease that once was Australia’s top killer and still kills 54,000 people each year in Vietnam. The researchers are coming together in Australia to share their progress and build stronger ties in fighting a disease…
Centenary Institute’s Prof Chris Semsarian available for comment on sudden cardiac death in young athletes. Two fit, young professional footballers – apparently completely healthy – have suffered sudden heart attacks mid-match in recent weeks.
Revealing the cells that make and police our 80,000 km internal transport network. Sydney doctor and philanthropist Tom Wenkart will donate $4 million on Monday 26 March, in the presence of the NSW Governor Dr Marie Bashir, to endow the University of Sydney Wenkart Chair in Endothelium Medicine at the Centenary Institute.
TB used to be Australia’s top killer and in much of the world it still is. Australian experts available to talk about a scourge killing three people every minute.