Perth gains NATA-accreditation for rare disease diagnostic tool
By Richard Schoonraad | Disease Area, Epigenetics and Genomics Laboratory, Genetic Disease, Genetic Neuromuscular Disorders, Genetics, Media Releases, Muscles, Muscular Dystrophy, News & Events, Research, Research AreaResearchers at Perth’s Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA are celebrating the long-awaited nationally recognised accreditation of a world-leading diagnostic technology that will provide faster,…
The Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research family is today remembering Professor Peter Thompson AM, who passed away yesterday. Prof Thompson was past Deputy Director and Laboratory Head of Cardiology…
$10 million raised for WA Cancer Research
By Richard Schoonraad | Cancer, Events, Fundraising, Media Releases, News & Events, Perkins EventsWest Australians give record amount in Australia’s biggest charity ride. This morning it was announced a record $10,104,999 has been raised for WA cancer research by the nation’s biggest charity…
Federal funding helps WA Biotech firm save lives
By Alicia Bienkowski | Disease Area, Funding, Lab, Media Releases, News & Events, Research, Research AreaCytophenix, a WA biotech startup led by Perkins Researcher Dr Kieran Mulroney, has been awarded a $500,000 grant as part of the Brandon BioCatalyst’s CUREator Incubator’s Health Security funding stream. …
Lowering cancer drug dose could open tumours to immunotherapy
By Alicia Bienkowski | Brain, Cancer, Cancer, Disease Area, Lab, Media Releases, Melanoma Discovery, Melonoma, News & Events, Research, Research Area, Systems Biology and GenomicsGroundbreaking research undertaken at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research in Perth has shown that administering anti-cancer drugs at a hundred-fold lower dose than standard protocols could improve the…
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research The Perkins conducts innovative research into the diseases that most affect families in the WA community and the world at large. We have grown…
Genetic Variants Linked to Severe Form of Muscular Dystrophy
By Alicia Bienkowski | Development of Improved Diagnostics for Genetic Disease, Development of Therapies for Selected Genetic Muscle Diseases, Genetic Disease, Genetic Disease, Genetic Neuromuscular Disorders, Genetics, Lab, Muscular Dystrophy, News & Events, Rare Disease Genetics and Functional Genomics, ResearchResearchers from Perth’s Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research have led a study that uncovered changes in a gene associated with a rare and severe form of muscular dystrophy. The…
Gene Mutation Discovery Sheds Light on Rare Muscle Disorder
By Alicia Bienkowski | Development of Improved Diagnostics for Genetic Disease, Development of Therapies for Selected Genetic Muscle Diseases, Genetic Disease, Genetic Disease, Genetic Neuromuscular Disorders, Genetics, Lab, Muscular Dystrophy, News & Events, Rare Disease Genetics and Functional Genomics, ResearchA groundbreaking study led by Dr Mridul Johari and Associate Professor Gina Ravenscroft, has identified that a genetic mutation is responsible for a rare and debilitating form of congenital myopathy.…