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The Centenary Institute’s Dr Madeleine Gill has today received a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) postgraduate scholarships grant to continue her research into understanding unexplained heart failure in patients with liver cirrhosis. Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy affects approximately 50 per cent of patients with cirrhosis and can be a barrier to liver transplantation and is ...

Research led by the Centenary Institute and the Harvard Medical School, Boston, shows that a compound present in current beta blocker treatments could be repurposed to increase efficiency and safety of infantile hemangioma therapies.

Professor Philip Hogg, Head, ACRF Centenary Cancer Research Centre, has featured on Nine News explaining his new theranostics research, recently funded by the Cancer Institute NSW. A form of personalised cancer treatment for the patient, the term ‘theranostics’ refers to a combined therapy and diagnostics approach where tumour markers are employed to deliver a therapeutic isotope ...

Two Centenary Institute scientists have been awarded grants totalling $4.3 million from the Cancer Institute NSW to undertake critical cancer related medical research.

The Centenary Institute has announced it will establish a new precision medicine laboratory, enabling world-leading research into the use of theranostics to treat cancer, thanks to a grant from the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF).

The Centenary Institute’s Ms Aster Pijning has been awarded the 2021 Thompson Prize by the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Research led by the Centenary Institute and University of Technology Sydney has identified a small RNA molecule called microRNA-21 as a therapeutic target and its inhibition as a potential treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

World-leading research into cardiovascular disease has been boosted with three researchers from the Centenary Institute securing Cardiovascular Research Capacity Program grants from the NSW Government.

Australians will be better protected against the health impacts of climate change, thanks to the Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) national research network, just announced by the Australian Government.

New research by the Centenary Institute suggests that commonly prescribed anticoagulants Ð medicines, such as aspirin, that help prevent blood clots Ð may make urinary tract infections (UTIs) more severe

Centenary Institute researchers have secured more than $2m in collective funding from the Federal Government in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grants.

Researchers from the Centenary Institute have developed a new approach to fighting melanomas that fail to respond Ð or are resistant Ð to standard treatments.