EMBL Australia

EMBL Australia is proud to be working together with Bioplatforms Australia, National Imaging Facility, Phenomics Australia, Population Health Research Network and Therapeutic Innovation Australia to keep Australians healthy through research innovation.

EMBL Australia Scientific Head Professor James Whisstock was one of the 31 newly elected Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS) for 2024 for his outstanding contributions to immunology.

EMBL Australia group leader Dr Qi Zhang has been awarded a prestigious fellowship to advance her epigenetics research, with the aim of generating fundamental knowledge to enable new cancer drugs.

News this quarter:

• $4m MRFF grant for RNA Mass Spectrometry Platform
• EMBL-EBI Director Ewan Birney on ‘mind-blowing potential’ of AI
• Dr Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan receives Life Sciences Award
• Future Fellowship to advance food technology, synthetic biology and agriculture
• More funding to new therapies for untreatable muscle disorders
• Shape the next generation of science infrastructure leaders
• Promotions to Professors for Chen Davidovich and Edwina McGlinn
• Get to know… Yann Gambin

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and its transformative role in life sciences took centre stage at an event featuring EMBL-EBI Director Prof Ewan Birney and jointly hosted by EMBL Australia and Bioplatforms Australia.

Pioneering biotech company Myostellar, led by EMBL Australia leadership team members Professor Peter Currie and Associate Professor Mikaël Martino, has received a $500,000 top-up from CUREator to continue developing new therapies for debilitating muscular dystrophies.

EMBL Australia Group Leader Professor Chen Davidovich has been awarded a $1.15m Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship to uncover how RNA helps control gene packaging and develop new methods to modify and introduce genes for advancements in biotechnology.

EMBL Australia group leader Professor Chen Davidovich has been awarded a $4m grant to establish an RNA mass spectrometry platform that will advance the local development of RNA therapeutics and enable the earlier detection of diseases, including cancer.

News this quarter:

• EMBL-EBI’s Rolf Apweiler shares thoughts on science in Australia
• PhD Course applications open now
• Discovery to plug billion-dollar drain on health system
• Investigator Grants success
• Future of proteomics in focus
• We need better support for early career researchers
• Mastering CryoET techniques

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More than 20 researchers from around Australia plunged deep into the world of cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET) at our specialist imaging training course, ‘Freeze, Frame and Focus: Mastering Cryo Electron Tomography’, last month.