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Dr Annalicia Vaughan from the Centenary UTS Centre for Inflammation is the successful recipient of the Kenyon Foundation Inflammation Award for 2022. The Award, valued at $20,000, will support Dr Vaughan’s study into identifying new microbial-derived biomarkers for the early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. The leading cause of cancer death, lung cancer is ...

World-leading research into pancreatic cancer has been boosted with the Centenary Institute’s Professor John Rasko AO awarded a $100,000 ‘Innovation in Early Detection’ grant from The Australian Pancreatic Cancer Foundation. One of the deadliest forms of cancer, the five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is less than 12% in Australia. A reason for the low ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Aster Pijning, PhD candidate at the ACRF Centenary Cancer Research Centre, has had her science recognised with an image from her paper selected for the recent front cover of the prestigious journal ÔBloodÕ.

Research led by the Centenary Institute has found that a compound extracted from a commonly cultivated orchid could be a potential new treatment option for prostate cancer.

Professor John Rasko AO, Head of the Gene and Stem Cell Therapy Program at the Centenary Institute spoke recently at an Australian Academy of Science symposium.

Focus, accuracy and persistence–these are just some of the many qualities possessed by Julie Feng, a researcher in the Centenary Institute’s Gene and Stem Cell Therapy Program and also a world-leading kendo practitioner.