World TB Day on March 24 reminds us of the growing TB threat Scientists available for interview in English and Bahasa Indonesia for World TB Day. Read the release in Bahasa Indonesia. More images below. Better vaccines are needed for the global fight against tuberculosis (TB). The Global Fund reports an estimated nine million new…
$25,000 Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize goes to young Melbourne researcher One of Australia’s most creative young medical researchers has won a $25,000 prize to help her develop her ideas on how diet could prevent stroke deaths. Connie Wong thinks we may be able to prevent early deaths following stroke with a fibre-based diet. She…
Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize to be announced, finalists from Melbourne and Sydney The winner of the Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize will be announced at 6.30 pm, Tuesday 12 November 2013, at a reception hosted by UBS in Sydney. There are three finalists. On Tuesday we will find out who is the overall winner…
Applications are now open for the $25,000 Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize for early-career biomedical researchers. We’re looking for early-career scientists in biomedical research with a uniquely creative way of significantly contributing to their chosen field.
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…
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.
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…
Prostate cancers are hungry, growing cells. Now we know how to cut off their food supply thanks to research to be published later this month in Cancer Research—work funded by Movember and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia Researchers at the Centenary Institute in Sydney have discovered a potential future treatment for prostate cancer—through starving…
The winner of the Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize, for her lung cancer research, is Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat, from Melbourne’s Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI). Having unravelled key information on how and why breast stem cells co…
Posted on behalf of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research Discovery of the cellular ‘link’ between female hormones and the development of breast cancer has earned Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researcher Dr Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat the inaugural Lawrence Creative Prize from the Centenary Institute.