Tagged with Glycomics

UK-based Association for International Cancer Research this week announced it will fund a Griffith University project led by Dr Joe Tiralongo to further develop a potential anti-cancer treatment that had shown promising results in lab tests. The grant will enable the team to test a range of new ‘designer’ compounds on tumours in living cells […]

Researchers at Griffith University Institute for Glycomics, Queensland led by Professor Mark von Itzstein have developed a technique to ‘crack-the-code’ of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus. The development was published this week in the world’s leading international chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition available here. It will enable influenza virus specialists and drug researchers […]

Vice Chancellor Professor Ian O’Connor said he was delighted to accept the donation on behalf of the University. “Through the Triguboff Foundation, Mr Triguboff has become well-known for his philanthropy and we are pleased to benefit from this generosity,” Professor O’Connor said. “The important work the Institute for Glycomics does in their quest to help […]

Listen to Professor Mark von Itzstein, the Executive Director of the Institute for Glycomics discuss Australia’s vulnerability to an influenza pandemic and our preparedness to respond. Many of the world’s leading experts in the field agree that an influenza pandemic is not a matter of “if”, but “when”. Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics, in partnership […]

Vice Chancellor Professor Ian O’Connor has welcomed funding of $11 million for the Institute for Glycomics. The Queensland Government funding announced by Premier Peter Beattie, to be matched by the University, would see plans on the drawing board this year for a major $22 million expansion of the institute — the only dedicated multidisciplinary facility […]