Research stories
We excel in ground-breaking, multidisciplinary translational medical research in fields including immunology, genomics, neuroscience, mental health, infectious diseases, obesity and metabolic disorders.
8 Mar 2018
Learn more about the history of malaria and why we need to develop new tools to fight this deadly fever, thanks to Harry Sutton from the Cockburn Lab on Ask...
16 Feb 2018
Professor Ross Hannan is a great detective of cancer research—finding and developing new cancer treatments for patients at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
15 Jan 2018
Professor Chris Nolan, Director of Endocrinology and Diabetes for ACT Health and Professor of Endocrinology at the ANU Medical School serves patients at The...
26 Oct 2017
A recent study by a team including Dmitry Shishmarev, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the ACRF Department of Cancer Biology and Therapeutics at JCSMR, and his...
9 Aug 2017
New research highlights the significant role the surrounding environment of stem cells, known as the niche, might play in the brain size of babies with...
13 Jul 2017
The Australian National University (ANU) has led the discovery of brain-like activity in the immune system that promises better treatments for lymphoma,...
15 Jun 2017
Researchers have identified a new gene which is crucial for the immune system to respond to infection and vaccination.
6 Feb 2017
It’s called a high throughput drug screening platform. And while the name isn’t as exciting as Terminator, it’s what this new machine can do that makes it...
29 Oct 2015
Professor Chris Parish is Group Leader of the Cancer and Vascular Biology Group, in the Department of Immunology at The John Curtin School of Medical Research.
29 Oct 2015
Professor Angela Dulhunty is the Group Leader of the Muscle Research Group in the Department of Translational Bioscience at The John Curtin School of Medical...
29 Oct 2015
Professor Matthew Cook is the Group Leader of the Translational Research Group in the Department of Immunology at The John Curtin School of Medical Research,...
29 Oct 2015
Dr Claudio Mastronardi is a Research Fellow at The John Curtin School of Medical Research and a Team Leader in the Department of Translational Medicine.