Treatment type: Cell therapies

Leading Australian stem cell researcher, Dr Rebecca Lim has just returned from Toronto, the global centre of cell therapies research and a hotbed of innovation and start-ups. She shares what happens when science meets innovation and commercialisation. You’ve just been to Toronto, Canada to visit the Centre for Commercialisation of Regenerative Medicine. What was the…  Read more

A team of researchers at The Ritchie Centre, Hudson Institute of Medical Research has published further evidence to support the use of stem cells derived from the placenta to protect newborn babies against the debilitating preterm lung disease, bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), and its severe lifelong impacts.…  Read more

The placenta is a rich source of life for unborn babies, supplying oxygen and sustaining nutrition to the fetus via the umbilical cord.…  Read more

Kahli Sargent loved going fast in a car or boat, everyone knew she loved it—which is surprising, because her mother was told by doctors at birth that she would never communicate.…  Read more

Dr Rebecca Lim has been invited to present her work with Business Development Director, Rob Merriel on amniotic exosomes at the prestigious Stanford University BIO SPARK Showcase in San Francisco on 17 October.…  Read more

Innovations in stem cell and regenerative medicine research and women’s and children’s health are the focus of the 2016 Ritchie Centre Colloquium and Public Forum, August 25 – 26.…  Read more

Federal Member for Chisholm and former speaker, Anna Burke, and City of Monash Mayor, Cr Stefanie Perri, toured the Monash Health Translation Precinct’s (MHTP) new $84 million Translational Research Facility yesterday (Monday, February 15).…  Read more

Six Hudson Institute researchers working in the areas of fetal and neonatal health, cancer and reproductive health have received grants and fellowships to build on and enhance their life-saving research.…  Read more

Hudson Institute’s Dr Graeme Polglase and Dr Courtney McDonald have been awarded prestigious Heart Foundation fellowships to provide continuity to their research into life-threatening neonatal conditions.…  Read more

Year 12 students from Wangaratta in north-east Victoria have put their money where their mouth is, raising funds and awareness to support cord blood research at Hudson Institute.…  Read more