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MELBOURNE, Australia, 27 September 2022 – Cartherics, a biotechnology company developing immune cell therapies for the treatment of cancer, together within partner institutions, has received $5.4M Medical Research Futures Fund (MRFF) grant to develop a new approach to enhance cancer therapy by engaging the patients’ own immune system to complement CAR cell therapy.

The company, in […]

On Thursday, 2 September, in an interview with Jack Hodgins on 2NUR.FM’s ‘Wellbeing’ segment, Professor Bryan Williams (Cartherics Non-Executive Board Member) spoke about COVID-19, viruses and how vaccines control them, and the importance of medical research.

“I would encourage Australians to convince their politicians that they need to increase the research budget in Australia, […]

New research delivers devastating findings about ovarian cancer screening

Four Australian women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer a day and three will eventually die from the disease. It’s usually diagnosed late, because few women show symptoms until they have advanced cancer.

As a junior doctor in London in the mid-1980s, Ian Jacobs saw women undergo chemo and […]

Dolly the cloned sheep is a legend. Not so her technical descendant Elizabeth Ann the endangered black-footed ferret.

By Leigh Dayton

4 March 2021

In 1966 Alan Trounson was enjoying a hike in the hills above Edinburgh, Scotland with his colleague Ian Wilmut when Wilmut revealed a secret. His team at the Roslin Institute had cloned a […]

A survey reveals nearly US$100 market capitalisation

23 February 2021

A survey conducted by Washington DC based BioInformant assesses the growth of the CAR-T arm of immunotherapy research and development. The summary is posted below.

At first the trend was subtle, but the tide has swelled as CAR-T therapies like Kymriah, Yescarta, Tecartus, and […]

Legislation to be introduced to Australian Parliament

By Leigh Dayton

4 February 2021

Not only is Alan Trounson Cartherics CEO and a leader in embryonic stem cell science, he’s also a pioneer in IVF technology. Back in 1980 the then embryologist made headlines for his participation in the birth of Australia’s first IVF baby, Candice Reed.

Thanks to this […]