EMBL Australia

EMBL Australia group leader Dr Maté Biro has contributed to an unexpected discovery about cancer cells.

Dr Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan, based at UNSW Sydney’s Single Molecule Science, is interested in the dynamic inner workings of a cell.

EMBL Australia group leader Associate Professor Chen Davidovich has been awarded a prestigious Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship of $1.25 million to investigate how genes operate.

EMBL Australia group leaders Professor Eduardo Eyras and Associate Professor Max Cryle have been awarded Discovery Project grants in the areas of genetics and antimicrobial resistance, respectively.

Immune T cells swarm to tumours by following a chemical gradient left by other cancer-killing T cells, a pre-clinical study by EMBL Australia group leader Dr Maté Biro and his team has shown.

EMBL Australia group leader Dr Harald Janovjak was recently awarded a prestigious ARC Future Fellowship to develop innovative genomic tools.

Professor Ewan Birney, the Deputy Director General of EMBL and Director of EMBL-EBI, is a participant in the Oxford trial for a COVID-19 vaccine and shared his views on the global coronavirus pandemic with us.

Research by EMBL Australia alumnus Dr Nico Plachta and group leader Dr Maté Biro, and published in Nature, has led to a fundamental discovery that advances our understanding of how mammals develop in the earliest stages after fertilisation.

Associate Professor Max Cryle is an EMBL Australia Group Leader, based at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute.

EMBL Australia group leader A/Prof Mikaël Martino and Victorian node head Prof Peter Currie will use a grant of more than $820,000 from the Medical Research Future Fund's Stem Cell Therapies Mission to improve the lives of those with muscular dystrophies & myopathies.