EMBL Australia

The highly competitive grants will fund innovative research projects to advance a wide range of health issues, including tissue regeneration, immune responses to vaccination, mRNA therapeutics and suppressing cancer growth.

Professor Eduardo Eyras and Dr Richard Morris are chief investigators in the new ARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems.

Congratulations to EMBL Australia group leader Professor David Lynn, Dr Feargal Ryan (a postdoctoral fellow  in the Lynn Group) and Dr Qi Zhang (a Monash BDI group leader in the Davidovich Group) for their recent grant successes.

An ARC LIEF grant will enable fundamental research in 3D environments that closely mimic lifelike conditions via the bioprinting of 3D models of organs and tissues, realising the vision of the late world-leading immunologist Katharina Gaus.

Associate Professor Robert Weatheritt – based at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research – is the fourth EMBL Australia group leader to be awarded the prestigious fellowship.

An EMBL Australia delegation joined more than 300 other researchers from around the world at EMBL Heidelberg for the 4th EMBL Partnership Conference in September.

EMBL Australia group leader Dr Michelle Boyle has been awarded a prestigious fellowship to advance her work in boosting the immune response to malaria, with the aim of improving vaccines for malaria and other chronic diseases.

New research by the EMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science at UNSW reveals the mechanical processes used by T cells to kill cancer cells more efficiently.

A new biotech company led by Professor Peter Currie and Associate Professor Mikaël Martino, will receive more than half a million dollars to develop much-needed new therapies for the treatment of debilitating muscular dystrophies. 

A/Prof Robert Weatheritt was awarded an RNA Future Leaders grant to develop drugs to fight obesity and Dr Senthil Arumugam won a Team Science grant to further investigate cell size regulation.