Australia’s biggest charity bike ride raises $4.8M
By Alicia Bienkowski | Community Events, Events, News & Events, Perkins EventsAustralia’s biggest charity bike ride smashed its $4 million fundraising goal by almost $815,000 thanks to the amazing support of 1,000 riders and their friends and family. The funds raised…
Researchers uncover new sarcoma gene
By Alicia Bienkowski | Cancer, Cell Signalling, Genes, News & Events, SarcomaA team of WA researchers has uncovered new genes that could play an important role in the development of sarcoma, a group of rare bone, muscle and connective tissue cancers.…
Engineers offer new hope for blood vessel surgery
By Alicia Bienkowski | Blood Vessels, News & Events, Research, Vascular EngineeringA new biomaterial that could one day be used to help patients undergoing surgery on the largest artery in the body has been developed by a team of researchers from…
Student Publication Wins Award
By Alicia Bienkowski | Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease, Funding, Media Releases, Mitochondrial Disease, Mitochondrial Medicine and Biology, News & EventsA significant study that found a link between an energy-producing gene and a hereditary heart condition has been awarded the annual James Hopley Student Publication Award. Kara Perks from the…
Perkins joins State-first program to accelerate digital health in WA
By Alicia Bienkowski | Funding, Media Releases, News & Events, Research, StatementsThe Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research has joined forces with a consortium of partners across the WA medical research sector to develop and deliver the State’s first digital health-specific…
Brain & Breast Cancer Collaborative Grant Recipient Announced
By Alicia Bienkowski | Brain, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Cancer Epigenetics, Genes, News & Events, ResearchProject led by Associate Professor Pilar Blancafort will be co-funded by an $890,000 investment from Cure Brain Cancer Foundation and National Breast Cancer Foundation. Top researchers from the fields of…
Walkers show they’re tougher together
By Marlin Communications | Community, Community Events, Events, Fundraising, News & EventsAn event is only as good as the people in it, and the heroes that make up the Hawaiian Walk for Women’s Cancer are a testimony to that.The Perkins recently…
Changing view of Muscular Dystrophy
By Marlin Communications | Disease Area, Lab, Molecular Medicine, Muscular Dystrophy, News & Events, Rare Disease Genetics and Functional Genomics, Research, Research AreaPerkins PhD student, Dr Macarena Cabrera-Serrano, from the Laboratory for Neurogenetic Diseases, was lead author on the paper, Expanding the phenotype of GMPPB mutations. Although Congenital Muscular Dystrophy has several…