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24/08/10
L’Oreal Fellowship winner seeks to understand breast cancer
A desire to understand how breast cancer starts has seen Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researcher Dr Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat today win one of three 2010 L’Oreal Australia For Women in Science Fellowships.
Dr Asselin-Labat, a senior postdoctoral fellow in the institute’s Stem Cells and Cancer...
15/08/10
Obesity and diabetes: immune cells in fat tissue explain the link
Inflammation-causing cells in fat tissue may explain the link between obesity and diabetes, a team of Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers has shown.
The discovery, by Professor Len Harrison and Dr John Wentworth from the institute’s Autoimmunity and Transplantation division, opens the way...
03/08/10
New funding benefits research in blood cancers and rare cancers
The development at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of a new class of anti-cancer drugs called BH3 mimetics and a project that collects information on rare cancers have received funding in this year’s round of Victorian Cancer Agency (VCA) grants.
Dr Kylie Mason, a senior postdoctoral fellow in...