http://www.centenary.org.au/p/about/media/mediareleases/ Latest news and media releases from a leading medical research facility located in Sydney, Australia en-au Fri, 18 May 2012 07:43:07 +1100 Copyright: (C) Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, Sydney, Australia. See http://www.centenary.org.au/p/about/terms/ Australian and Vietnamese medical researchers are meeting in Sydney this week to plan their next move against tuberculosis (TB), a disease that once was Australia's top killer and still kills 54,000 people each year in Vietnam. http://www.centenary.org.au/p/about/media/mediareleases/2012/05/Vietnam/ 0c45c6f60ea9ad83f63773d699bca876 Tue, 01 May 2012 16:00:01 +1100 Two fit, young professional footballers - apparently completely healthy - have suffered sudden heart attacks mid-match in recent weeks. http://www.centenary.org.au/p/about/media/mediareleases/2012/04/Footballer/ 5f4785babaac4f0622de297fdd0b3263 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:26:54 +1100 The head of the Centenary Institute's liver immunobiology program, Prof Geoff McCaughan, has publicly welcomed the approval by the Therapeutic Goods Administration of two new drugs to treat hepatitis C. http://www.centenary.org.au/p/about/media/mediareleases/2012/04/Geoff_McCaughan/ 77aeb759dff4588a22ee6ae3e88c5422 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:43:10 +1100 Sydney doctor and philanthropist Tom Wenkart will donate $4 million today, Monday 26 March, in the presence of the NSW Governor Dr Marie Bashir, to endow the University of Sydney Wenkart Chair in Endothelium Medicine at the Centenary Institute. http://www.centenary.org.au/p/about/media/mediareleases/2012/03/Endothelium/ c290e5521dbe670b90e4b988763726e1 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:47:05 +1100 An Australian scientist will bring effective screening for tuberculosis (TB) a step closer with his latest study in Vietnam- where he now lives and works. http://www.centenary.org.au/p/about/media/mediareleases/2012/03/Vietnam/ 49fb8051289024b6eec38dc220cd3ff0 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:09:45 +1100 A $1.2 million high-containment laboratory opening today in Sydney will allow researchers to double their efforts to understand and fight back against TB, a bacterium that lives inside two billion people worldwide and kills three people every minute. http://www.centenary.org.au/p/about/media/mediareleases/2012/03/PC3/ 9171db2ca0e7c82fed7d2e71a7991de1 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:41:27 +1100 A Sydney researcher is seeking to improve treatment of TB by tracking resistance to it among thousands of rural Chinese people with the help of a $750,000 NHMRC grant. We still don't know why only one in ten of the two billion people carrying the Mycobacteria tuberculosis bacterium become sick with tuberculosis (TB). But the disease kills more than one million people worldwide every year - three every minute. http://www.centenary.org.au/p/about/media/mediareleases/2012/03/Together_We_Can/ 5e110249302c91bc6e60afb1ef85fef2 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:22:01 +1100 Centenary's Dr Devanshi Seth, a researcher who works in the liver lab, will soon be testing the genes of hundreds of Sydney-siders to work out why some heavy drinkers develop liver cirrhosis and some don't. A $2.5 million grant from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will help to fund the project. http://www.centenary.org.au/p/about/media/mediareleases/2012/03/Dr_Seth/ 32674c9da60dba1c68d06beb70fa2c93 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:29:58 +1100 Dr Mika Jormakka, Head of the Structural Biology Group at Centenary Institute has been appointed as Conjoint Associate Professor at Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney. http://www.centenary.org.au/p/about/media/mediareleases/2012/02/DrJormakka/ 8878498f1736aa0d60eecb8de1548004 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:47:57 +1100 If the City2Surf is on your 'to do' list this year, why not join Centenary's Run4Research team? Centenary is one of a select group of charities that has 30 spots in the Gold Charity Zone and registrations are now open. http://www.centenary.org.au/p/about/media/mediareleases/2012/02/city2surf/ be7bdebd624b4676f1ab77a3e75ea06d Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:43:18 +1100