Garvan Institute of Medical Research
The Garvan Institute of Medical Research brings together clinicians with world-leading basic and translational researchers.
Most autoimmune diseases are easy to diagnose but hard to treat. A paper published in Science proposes using your unique immune cell fingerprint to rapidly identify which treatments will work for your autoimmune disease.
‘We analysed the genomic profile of over one million cells from 1,000 people to identify a fingerprint linking genetic markers to diseases such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, type 1 diabetes, spondylitis, inflammatory bowel disease, and Crohn’s disease,’ says Professor Joseph Powell, joint lead author at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. ‘We were able to do this using single cell sequencing, a new technology that allows us to detect subtle changes in individual cells,’ he says.
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A private public partnership to strengthen Australia’s position at the forefront of the cancer treatment revolution.
The Precision Oncology Screening Platform Enabling Clinical Trials (PrOSPeCT) will establish Australia is a medical manufacturing hub: building links from research through to the clinic; creating jobs; changing lives.
Announced by the Australian Government at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research today.
Over the past decade, immunotherapy and other new treatments have transformed outcomes for thousands of Australians diagnosed with cancer. However, 46,000 Australians a year are diagnosed with cancers with limited treatment options.
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- A single DNA test has been developed that can screen a patient’s genome for over 50 genetic neurological and neuromuscular diseases such as Huntington’s disease, muscular dystrophies and fragile X syndrome.
- The new test avoids a ‘diagnostic odyssey’ for patients that can take decades.
- The team, from Australia, UK and Israel, has shown, in a paper today in Science Advances that the test is accurate. They are now working on validations to make it available in pathology labs.
- They expect it to be standard in global pathology labs within five years.
A new DNA test, developed by researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney and collaborators from Australia, UK and Israel, has been shown to identify a range of hard-to-diagnose neurological and neuromuscular genetic diseases quicker and more-accurately than existing tests.
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