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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.
At the frontier of tomorrow’s medicine: the art of making stem cells into blood cells
20 November 2019

Professors Andrew Elefanty and Ed Stanley and Dr Elizabeth Ng from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute are among the world’s leaders in the art of making human stem cells turn into blood cells and study blood cell development in the embryo.
At the frontier of medicine: Using big data to understand cellular identity
19 November 2019

Professor Christine Wells' lab at the University of Melbourne is uses pluripotent stem cells to create macrophages in the laboratory to understand the molecular rules of cellular identity.
At the frontier of medicine: Hope vs Hype and the promise of stem cells
18 November 2019

Professor Megan Munsie is the Head of the Ethics, Engagement and Policy Program at Stem Cells Australia and the Deputy Director of the University of Melbourne’ Centre for Stem Cell Systems, and is interested in the implications of stem cell science both in the lab and in the community.
At the frontier of medicine: seeing eye disease clearly with stem cells
14 November 2019

Professor Alice Pébay from the University of Melbourne, is creating models of the eye to investigate genetic diseases of the eye, many of which have no intervention or cure.
At the frontier of medicine: Studying heart development one cell at a time
12 November 2019

Dr Nathan Palpant at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland is trying to understand how the heart develops, at an individual cell level, to better explore drugs that might treat the injured heart following a heart attack.
At the frontier of tomorrow’s medicine: Modelling the brain to understand neurodegenerative diseases.
12 November 2019

Professor Ernst Wolvetang uses human induced pluripotent stem cells, cells reprogrammed from a patient’s skin cell, to model the brain and understand neurodegenerative diseases and possible treatment opportunities.
At the frontier of tomorrow’s medicine: using big data to understand ageing and disease
12 November 2019

Associate Professor Jessica Mar is a group leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland focussing on using big data to understand ageing and disease.

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