Passionate biomedical engineers recognised in Premier’s science awards
By Alicia Bienkowski | awards, Bioimaging Research and Innovation for Translational Engingeering BRITE, Biomedical engineering, Media Releases, News & Events, Vascular EngineeringApplying the tools used by oil and gas engineers to investigate how blood flows in the placenta during pregnancy led to Harry Perkins Institute PhD student being named joint winner…
Collaborative research has potential to improve cancer immunotherapy
By Alicia Bienkowski | Media Releases, News & EventsWest Australian researchers have identified key differences between cancers that respond to immunotherapy and those that do not, paving the way for more effective treatments for cancer. The multidisciplinary team,…
Linear Clinical Research: Big pharma stampede to Perth prompts new Joondalup clinical trial facility
By Alicia Bienkowski | Media Releases, News & EventsThe Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research (the Perkins) is delighted to share the news that Linear Clinical Research, its wholly owned subsidiary, is expanding operations. A second facility has…
Australia boosts gene disease detection capacity
By Alicia Bienkowski | Disease Area, Genes, Genetic Disease, Media Releases, News & Events, ResearchNew technology detects genetic diseases previously unable to be identified World leading technology in identifying disease genes has arrived in Australia to facilitate new diagnostic genomic tests for patients with…
Experts discuss new plaque dissolving drug – community invited
By Alicia Bienkowski | Media Releases, News & EventsIt is too late for amputee Trevor Jones to benefit from the discovery of a new drug that dissolves plaque in arteries, but he’s as committed as the Marvel characters…
In a world-first discovery that could save millions of lives, a research team in Western Australia has developed a method to detect a bacterial infection in hours instead of days,…
Lifesaving Australian discovery helps combat antibiotic resistance – in The Lancet eBiomedicine
By Alicia Bienkowski | Media Releases, News & EventsA new method that can both detect the presence of a bacterial infection and determine which antibiotics will be most effective for treatment in less than 5 hours, instead of…
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research Director, Professor Peter Leedman AO, and Rare Disease Genetics and Functional Genomics Group Lead, Dr Gina Ravenscroft, have been listed in Business News’ inaugural…