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Centenary Institute researcher and PhD candidate, Dr Julia Isbister, has been awarded the 2022 Ralph Reader Prize for Clinical Science by the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ).

A group of Australian researchers, including Professor Phil Hansbro, Director of the Centenary UTS Centre for Inflammation, have won a Fukuchi (Respirology) Award for ‘outstanding original research paper’ published in the journal Respirology.

A new study from German and Centenary Institute researchers has provided new understanding of an enzyme called dipeptidyl peptidase 9 (DPP9) and its role in cancer development.

Professor John Rasko AO, Head of the Gene and Stem Cell Therapy Program at the Centenary Institute has featured in a Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) article on gene therapy and its growing emergence into the clinic.

Vascular endothelial cells serve as a protective barrier in blood vessel walls.

Researchers at the Centenary Institute and the University of Technology Sydney have identified a new drug target for the treatment and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an inflammatory lung disease that causes airway blockage and that makes it difficult to breathe.

Dr Joyce Chiu from the ACRF Centenary Cancer Research Centre has won an Oral Communication Award for her talk given at the 15th World Congress on Inflammation, held in Rome, June 2022.

A medical researcher at the Centenary UTS Centre for Inflammation, Dr Annalicia Vaughan specialises in the gut-lung axis and its role in lung and respiratory diseases.

The Centenary Institute welcomes the NSW Government’s commitment to fund a new biomedical complex in Camperdown. The Chair of the Centenary Institute Board, Joseph Carrozzi AM, and its Executive Director, Professor Mathew Vadas AO, are thrilled that a biomedical complex, the Sydney Biomedical Accelerator (SBA), will now be a reality.

Professor Chis Semsarian AM, Head of the Agnes Ginges Centre for Molecular Cardiology at the Centenary Institute and Cardiologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, has given a headline talk on the genetic basis of cardiovascular disease as a part of Sydney Local Health District’s 'Innovation Week' event.

Dr Elinor Hortle, medical researcher at the Centenary Institute has been interviewed on Sydney radio 2GB’s Healthy Living program, discussing her latest findings on tackling mycobacterial infections. Responsible for diseases that include tuberculosis (TB), leprosy and serious skin ulcerations, mycobacterial infections cause significant harm and mortality to human health. Approximately 1.5 million people die each ...

Researchers from the Centenary Institute and the University of Technology Sydney have published the first study showing why people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at higher risk of developing severe COVID-19.