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• At the frontier of tomorrow’s medicine: mini-kidneys in a dish tell genetic story

  02 December 2019

  Professor Melissa Little and her Kidney Regeneration group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute are combining stem cells and gene editing to understand kidney diseases and their treatments.
• At the frontier of medicine: fixing hearts by finding out what makes them tick

  29 November 2019

  Associate Professor Enzo Porrello is a stem cell scientist at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and University of Melbourne. He is investigating using bioengineered heart tissue, derived from stem cells, as a potential therapy to correct heart defects in children.
• At the frontier of medicine: Towards stem cells therapies for Parkinson’s

  25 November 2019

  Professor Clare Parish and Associate Professor Lachlan Thompson from the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health and the University of Melbourne, have long been at the forefront of discovery in brain repair, particularly for Parkinson’s Disease.

Events

• From Models to Systems: Deciphering Biological Complexity

  27 November 2019

  The 2019 EMBL Australia Postgraduate Symposium (EAPS19) in Melbourne focuses on looking at biology from multiple perspectives to better understand it as a whole, from micro-organisms to large ecosystems.