Story type: Award

  • 2018 Harold Mitchell Foundation Travel Fellowships

    Congratulations to the 2018 recipients of The Harold Mitchell Foundation Travel Fellowships. These fellowships are equipping our young scientists with the experience, cutting-edge knowledge and professional links that will let them make a major difference to medical science both in Australia and throughout the world. The Harold Mitchell Foundation Fellowships enable a promising young Hudson…  Read more

    Courtney McDonald
  • 2018 Hudson Institute Travel and Equity Awards

    Congratulations to the 2018 Hudson Institute Travel Awards recipients, who will attend international conferences and visiting laboratories to build invaluable knowledge in their area of research. The Awards (supported by donations from the Grisha Sklovsky Memorial Fund and Philip Wind Travel Fund) support six Hudson Institute Postdoctoral Fellows and PhD students to gain experience relevant…  Read more

    Dr Shayanti Mukherjee from the Endometrial Stem Cell Biology Research Group at Hudson Institute
  • 2018 Hudson Institute Equity Awards

    The Hudson Institute Equity Travel Awards assists a staff member who has a career disruption to progress their research and career development. Dr Genevieve PepinCentre for Innate Immunity and Infectious DiseasesResearch Group: Nucleic Acids and Innate ImmunitySupervisor: Dr Michael Gantier The award will enable Genevieve to present her data at the International Cytokines and Interferon…  Read more

  • 2018 Centre for Reproductive Health Travel Awards

    Through the generosity of an anonymous donor, the Centre for Reproductive Health (CRH) is able to provide a highly competitive travel award of $2,500 to each of one CRH post-doctoral fellow and one CRH PhD student.  This offers a wonderful opportunity for our future research leaders to showcase their accomplishments. 2018 CRH Travel Award recipients…  Read more

  • Outstanding PhD students receive recognition

    Graduate research students from The Ritchie Centre took the lion’s share of awards at the recent Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) annual scientific meeting.…  Read more

  • Genetic explanation for intersex provides hope

    A study led by Professor Vincent Harley and Dr Daniel Bird examining the genetic causes of intersex, where a person is born with characteristics that are not clearly male or female…  Read more

    Professor Vincent Harley - A study identifies a new rare disorder that forms another piece of the puzzle in understanding why some people are born intersex.
  • Dr Sue Fowler Scholarship in Ovarian Cancer awarded to Mrs Nazanin Karimnia

    The inaugural Dr Sue Fowler Scholarship in Ovarian Cancer has been awarded to PhD student, Mrs Nazanin Karimnia to support her research into new ovarian cancer therapies. The scholarship was established in honour of the late Dr Sue Fowler, to support a Hudson Institute PhD student undertaking research into ovarian cancer. There is an urgent…  Read more

  • Preventing gestational diabetes

    Early career researchers Dr Stacey Ellery and Ms Aya Mousa have won the MHTP Research Week ECR speed networking event, receiving a $10,000 grant to progress their research idea.…  Read more

  • Finding the right treatment for repeated implantation failure

    Uncovering how abnormal immune cell populations in the womb could be linked to repeat implantation failure and early pregnancy loss is the focus of new research by Dr Ellen Menkhorst. Dr Menkhorst, a Research Scientist in the Embryo Implantation Research Group, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Rebecca L. Cooper Foundation to help…  Read more

  • Flicking the immune ‘switch’ to repair multiple sclerosis damage

    Discovering new treatments to repair damage to nerve cells caused by Multiple Sclerosis (MS) will be the focus of research at Hudson Institute of Medical Research, thanks to funding from MS Research Australia. Dr Claire McCoy has been awarded a $25,000 MS Research Australia incubator grant to progress her research into the role of macrophages,…  Read more