Tagged with Eskitis

Griffith University scientist Professor Alan Mackay-Sim is calling on locals of all ages to support him in his bid to win the People’s Choice Award in the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes,by voting online tomorrow. Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, deputy director of Griffith’s Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies, is one of six top Australian scientists […]

Griffith University’s Eskitis Institute is to receive additional funding of almost $US1 million through an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas addressing persistent health challenges. Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) funds scientists and researchers to explore ideas to solve global health and development challenges. Eskitis […]

Director of the Eskitis Institute Professor Ronald Quinn said the partnership would add unique plant biodiversity to the Institute’s collection. Prominent conservation identity Terri Irwin said Australia Zoo recently discovered a range of unique freshwater springs in the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve in Far North Queensland. “These springs support a new rainforest type, found only […]

A three-year, Phase I clinical trial in human paraplegics has demonstrated the safety of cells from a patient’s own nose as a possible cell therapy for spinal cord injury. The trial was a collaboration between Queensland researchers led by Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, Director of the National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research at Griffith University, […]

The Griffith University study published Thursday (US time) in the journal Stem Cells found that adult stem cells harvested from the noses of Parkinson’s patients gave rise to dopamine-producing brain cells when transplanted into the brain of a rat. The debilitating symptoms of Parkinson’s such as loss of muscle control are caused by degeneration of […]

The Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery projects and Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) grants awarded Eskitis researchers $1 million and a further $0.97 million was awarded under the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants. The grants were awarded for these projects: ARC Discovery Projects 1. Develop environmentally sustainable asymmetric synthesis: design and […]

Azides and Alkynes: Tigers in a cage When: Tuesday 25 September, 5pm Where: N18, Central Theatre 2, Griffith University, Nathan Campus Abstract: Organic azides and alkynes share two unique characteristics: 1. both are extremely reactive in principle, but in reality are restrained from most all reactions by high kinetic barriers — like ‘tigers in a […]