Story type: Award
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OCRF-funded projects to improve early detection, therapies for ovarian cancer
Hudson Institute researchers Dr Simon Chu and Dr Andrew Stephens have been awarded grants totalling more than $700,000 over three years by the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation (OCRF), to support ongoing work to improve early-stage tumour detection and to develop better therapies for women with ovarian cancer.… Read more
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Professor Robert McLachlan recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
Renowned Hudson researcher, clinical andrologist, and men’s health advocate, Professor Robert McLachlan has been made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours.… Read more
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Ritchie Centre researchers, students shine at fetal and neonatal conferences
Researchers and postgraduate students from The Ritchie Centre (Hudson Institute of Medical Research and Monash University) have shone at two of Australia’s biggest fetal and neonatal conferences, which both took place in Queensland last week.… Read more
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$2 million funding for prostate, bowel cancer trial brings personalised medicine a step closer
Targeted genetic treatment for cancer is a step closer, with a world-first clinical trial set to test the effectiveness of a new class of drugs called BET inhibitors in treating prostate and colorectal cancer. A team of clinicians and researchers at Hudson Institute of Medical Research and Monash University has been awarded a $2 million… Read more
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Reducing harm stemming from premature birth and birth asphyxia
Minimising harm to babies exposed to adverse early life events such as preterm birth and birth asphyxia will be the focus of a $6.12M National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funded collaborative research program at Hudson Institute of Medical Research.… Read more
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Hudson PhD student Dr James Aridas receives research scholarship
Hudson Institute/ Monash University School of Clinical Sciences PhD student, Dr James Aridas, has been awarded an Avant Mutual Group Doctors in Training research scholarship.… Read more
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Collaborative study gives hope to women suffering in silence
New treatment for millions of women affected by a hidden condition, pelvic organ prolapse (POP), will be the focus of Dr Shayanti Mukherjee’s novel bioengineering project, thanks to a prestigious John Stocker Postdoctoral Fellowship.… Read more
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Hudson Institute researchers scoop Endocrine Society of Australia awards
Four out of five Endocrine Society of Australia (ESA) research awards and scholarships for 2016 have been awarded to Hudson Institute of Medical Research students and researchers.… Read more
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$58,000 to unravel the sex-specific genetic causes of Parkinson’s disease
Researchers from Hudson Institute and Monash University’s School of Clinical Sciences have received a $58,000 Bethlehem Griffiths Research Foundation grant to help understand the sex-specific genetic causes for why men are more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease than women.… Read more
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CASS Foundation supports three Hudson Institute research projects
Four Hudson researchers have been awarded grants totalling more than $160,000 by the CASS Foundation to further their research projects into pancreatic cancer, muscle wasting diseases and developing female contraceptives. CASS Foundation is a private philanthropic organization that supports Victorian medicine and science research projects that have the potential to lead to improved treatment and practice. Professor Brendan Jenkins, from Hudson’s Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious… Read more