News & Events

Latest News

• Tomorrow's Medicine: Building tools for brain repair

  23 May 2019

  Professor James Bourne and his team are laying the groundwork for using stem cell transplants to treat brain trauma with the discovery of an anti-scarring agent and new biomaterials to support transplanted cells.
• At the frontier of tomorrow's medicine: understanding stem cells for future cell-based industries

  17 May 2019

  The Laslett group investigates the biology of human pluripotent stem cell lines to better understand the development of tools and novel cell lines for future cell-based industries.
• From farm land to lab: Could cellular agriculture be the future of meat?

  07 May 2019

  Dr James Ryall featured on ABC Gippsland’s Saturday Breakfast show to discuss the topic of lab grown meat, a developing field termed “cellular agriculture”, and the role of skeletal muscle stem cells.

Events

• ISCT 2019 Conference

  29 May 2019

  The 2019 program features state-of-the-art plenary sessions that include immunotherapy, tissue engineering, pluripotent stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells and a session focused on novel technologies.
• Oz Single Cell 2019

  22 July 2019

  The third meeting of the Australian Cellular Panomics Consortium (ACPC) bringing together single cell scientists across Australia spanning computational, technical, and biological research.
• Engineering Organoids and Organs

  25 August 2019

  This meeting on Engineering Organoids and Organs will include a range of topics, including exploring biology with organoids, engineering complexity, new technology frontiers, and disease modeling and therapeutic discovery.