Stem Cell Awareness Day: will return in 2010 - view 2009 archive
CIRM Awards $25 million to overcome immune rejection of stem cell transplantation therapies
Two Victorian Government - CIRM grants for MISCL
Monash in national search for cause of MS
A team of Australian researchers including Monash professors Claude
Bernard (MISCL) and Ian
Smith are collaborating on a new research project in an effort to discover
the proteins that cause multiple sclerosis.
2009 Vice-Chancellor’s Award
Award to: Professor Graham Jenkin and Dr Tony Goldschlager for Excellence
in Research Innovation and Collaboration in Research with Industry
Glow-in-the-dark stem cells
Monash stem cell scientists have modified a human embryonic stem cell line
so that it glows red when the stem cells become red blood cells.
Monash stem cell scientists first to receive California grants
MISCL amongst the first recipients of collaborative grants under the Victoria-California Stem Cell Alliance
Electronic notebook project, M-eNotes: links experiments to data with secure central storage
Mark Malin of behalf of MISCL sought a project with eResearch (MeRC) and now Medical Faculty to link experimental report writing with result data to a central repository, incorporating IP capture. ARMI requires same.
Australian researchers make kidney gene breakthrough
Dr Sharon Ricardo, who heads the renal regeneration group at Monash University says the findings have the potential to revolutionise the way organ disease is treated.
Melbourne in world first stem cell treatment for neck vertebral repair
Professor Graham Jenkin and neurosurgical registrar Dr Tony Goldschlager, together with Melbourne-based biotechnology company Mesoblast Limited, have pioneered a new treatment using a unique population of adult stem cells
Prof RL Boyd; Dr A Michalska; Dr A Giudice (MISCL) and A/Prof MA Kirkland (Cytomatrix) were awarded a 3 year ARC Linkage grant
Application of direct protein transduction of Stem Cell Factors to reprogram mouse and human somatic cells into pluripotent stem cells
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