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 […]
Keen to see biotechnology make the leap from the laboratory to the marketplace?
If so, join Cartherics CEO Professor Alan Trounson and a panel of experienced innovators Monday 9 December at University House, University of Melbourne.
Chaired by Dougal Edwards, CEO of business accelerator Bright Arena, the panel will discuss the traps and tricks of moving applied research […]
Listen to Van and Graham here : Hi from Van and Graham
Pictured from left to right : Professor Richard Boyd (Cartherics CSO), Van Thi To, Professor Graham Jenkin (Cartherics Education Officer).
Van Thi To, a newly enrolled PhD Student with Cartherics, has received the prestigious inaugural Vingroup Science and Technology Scholarship Program. Vingroup is one of […]
Left to right : Jongmoon Kim, ToolGen CEO and Alan Trounson, Cartherics CEO shook hands and signed the papers whilst Cartherics Chairman Bob Moses looked on.
By Leigh Dayton, Cartherics […]
5 September 2019
Using the tools of biotechnology and immunology to help transforming cancer from a fatal to a manageable — or even curable – disease holds profound benefits to individual patients and the […]
As of July, the number of scientists sharing the work load in Cartherics’ laboratory hit an even dozen. That’s thanks to Research Fellow and haematologist Madeline Cao who joined the team from CSIRO where she worked on haematopoietic stem cells with Susie Nilsson’s group.
At Cartherics her focus is […]
Cartherics’ Chairman Bob Moses has over 40 years of executive experience in life science companies. You name it, he’s been there: Eli Lilly, ICI Australia, CSL Limited, Freehills, Amrad, Meditech, Daratech, Australian Stem Cell Centre, TGR Biosciences, and two Cooperative Research Centres.
Based on his depth of […]
Ms Rasa Islam is Cartherics’ first full-time PhD student. She’s joining the team under a prestigious Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) Project Grant entitled “Allogeneic Stem Cell Cancer immunotherapies”.
As part of the CRC-P Program, Cartherics offers high calibre students PhD research programs of study that include international level research training, […]
Research Assistant Callum Docherty explains why immunology is his passion and advancing cancer therapy is his goal.
I’ve always had an insatiable curiosity and a passion for big-picture ideas. Growing up both my mother and grandmother had cancer. After such an early confrontation with the absence of health — something most of us take for granted […]
