2017 CSL Florey Medal – photos from the award night
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Stem cell villages and beating mini hearts win prizes
A stem cell village reveals the best treatment for your bipolar disorder – Brisbane Beating mini hearts to find cures for inherited heart disease – Sydney Embargo 6am AEDT Wednesday 28 October 2026 National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia’s Metcalf Prizes announced today Scientists available for interviews; contact details below Two researchers using stem cells…
A stem cell village reveals the best treatment for your bipolar disorder
Dr Drew Neavin has developed a stem cell-based method that fast-tracks research identifying how bipolar disorder medications work in different people. This could offer a path to personalised treatment for the 568,000 Australians who have this serious lifelong mental health condition marked by pronounced mood swings. Drew grows stem cells from scores of different people…
Beating mini hearts to find cures for inherited heart disease
Dr James McNamara has successfully repaired tiny, beating ‘mini hearts’ grown from the stem cells of patients with genetic heart disease. The work has suggested pathways to identify how faulty genes damage heart muscle, and how to fix them. Using these mini hearts, he and his colleagues developed a gene therapy that restored heart function…
$1.5 billion and over 400 companies created through public research
Australian universities, medical research institutes, and public research agencies have created hundreds of spinout businesses and over $1.5 billion in commercialisation deals over the past five years according to Knowledge Commercialisation Australasia’s (KCA) annual SCOPR® survey. And the survey shows we’re getting better at knowledge commercialisation, with a 39 per cent growth in commercialisation revenue…
Giant Poo Palace. Milking snakes. Devil cancer. And the surprising beauty of slime moulds.
Sunday 23 August Highlights from the final day of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting people available for interview around the country. TAS: Nature’s jewels: The tiny, enchanting world of slime moulds. QLD: Racing a contagious cancer to save the Tasmanian devil. NSW: Follow food from lips to lavatory in the giant inflatable…
Indigenous gin. Seedy insurance. Platypus venom. Wikipedia’s women problem. Seniors code.
Saturday 22 August Highlights from day 8 of National Science Week’s 9-day week Researchers, experts, and other interesting people available for interview around the country. NSW: Native bees, seaweed, and 60,000+ years of Indigenous science at Redfern. NSW: Dinosaurs, frogs, and a First Nations Science Village: two huge family-friendly events – Mount Annan & Abbotsbury….
