By Leigh Dayton
8 July 2020
Cartherics will take part in the Onco Cell Therapy Summit 2020 virtual conference 8-10 July AEST. Cartherics CEO Alan Trounson, Chief Scientific Officer Richard Boyd and lead scientists will join an international gathering of key decision makers for CAR-T therapies.
The Summit, […]
It’s hardly news. COVID-19 is a global threat. By the end of May 2020 it had killed 356,000 people worldwide and 103 Australians. The cost to the global economy is estimated in the trillions of dollars and Governments around the […]
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By Leigh Dayton, Cartherics Communications Advisor
The global COVID-19 pandemic affects all Australians, their friends and family, at home and abroad. It is having a profound and enduring impact on our society, our resilience and our health.
So, when the President of the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), John Shine, called upon researchers […]
In Australia, one woman loses her battle with ovarian cancer every eight hours. That is why Cartherics supports World Ovarian Cancer Day and the 130 organisations which promote it.
On May 8th members of the World Ovarian Cancer Coalition come together to raise awareness of ovarian cancer and the need […]
When the first anticancer therapies based on engineered T cells hit the market a few years ago, they offered the possibility of what would have once been perceived as a medical miracle: a one-shot cure for certain blood cancers. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies, […]
By Leigh Dayton, Cartherics Communication Advisor
It happens every Thursday. Cartherics team members gather for a Virtual Coffee Break. Everyone brings their caffeine of choice and fronts up to their home computer screen for a […]
By Leigh Dayton
Image from Left to right : Dr Richard Boyd (Supervisor), Anisha Balachandran, Dr Nick Boyd (Co-Supervisor).
She joined the Cartherics Cooperative Research Centre (CRC-P) PhD Program two years ago with a top reputation. Now, Anisha Balachandran is garnering even more kudos for the quality […]
By Leigh Dayton, Cartherics Communication Advisor
She started last March and now Cartherics’ first full-time PhD student has passed a significant milestone with style. Rasa Islam has successfully presented and defended her year-one work – turning stem cells into effective natural killer cells.
“I’m really pleased”, says Islam who confesses to being […]
When she started in January, the word spread rapidly. Publications Officer Aleta Pupovac was hired to use her passion for language, reading and writing to help her colleagues tackle the burden of preparing papers, grants, reports and the seemingly endless regulatory obligations of scientific innovation.
“My role is to liaise with the scientists who […]
