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Thanks go to Special Editor, Cartherics CEO Alan Trounson

By Leigh Dayton, 17 January 2022

Cellular immunotherapy is revolutionizing cancer treatment, and off-the-shelf or allogeneic, treatments are beginning to replace technologies developed individually for each patient.

This is good news because the potential of allogeneic therapies is great. They promise to significantly save time and cut costs compared […]

By Leigh Dayton,  4 January 2022

When Cartherics Biomedical Honours student Elizabeth (Liz) Bakaniozos opened an e-mail this month from the Director and CEO of Monash University’s Hudson Institute of Medical Research she was “really surprised and grateful”.

And rightly so. Elizabeth Hartland wrote to advise and congratulate Liz on winning the Hudson Institute Lois Salamonsen Honours […]

By Leigh Dayton, 6 December 2021

When eight Cartherics women first teamed-up to walk or run 4km every day in November and raise funds to support women living with ovarian cancer, they set what they believed were achievable goals. The newly minted CARTeam would collectively move 120 km and raise $500.

They sorely misjudged their efforts. Despite […]

Ovarian Cancer Australia set the challenge and Cartherics accepted in winning style

By Leigh Dayton 22 November 2021

It was a challenge that had to be met.  “This November, walk or run 4km every day and raise funds to support women living with ovarian cancer,” proposed Ovarian Cancer Australia (OCA), a not-for-profit organisation which supports women […]

‘Off-the-Shelf’ Immunotherapy: Manufacture of CD8⁺ T Cells Derived from Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Cellular immunotherapy is revolutionizing cancer treatment. However, treatments created from each patient’s cells are complex, costly, and limited by the number and quality of killer T cells that can be isolated from and expanded for re-infusion into each patient.

In this […]

Alan Trounson joins regenerative medicine advisory committee

By Leigh Dayton

7 October 2021

According to Cartherics CEO Alan Trounson, taking ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace is a “long and tortuous process”. First-hand experience goes far towards identifying and navigating the hurdles of research translation.

And experience – from pioneering work in IVF and embryonic stem cell science […]

By Leigh Dayton

9 August 2021

Cartherics is pleased to announce that CEO Alan Trounson has been congratulated by the National Library of Australia for his recognition on this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

In recognition of his “distinguished service to medical science, and to in vitro fertilisation and stem cell technologies” Trounson was appointed an […]