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Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) is an independent organisation committed to the treatment or prevention of birth defects and childhood disease. Visit our website to learn more: https://www.cmrijeansforgenes.org.au/
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Children’s Medical Research Institute was proud to see Professor Hilda Pickett, Dr Rebecca Poulos and Dr Radek Szmyd nominated for the NSW Premier’s Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research, presented by the Cancer Institute NSW, on Tuesday night.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Huge congratulations to Professor Tony Cesare, winner of the University of Sydney’s 2025 Makers and Shapers Award for Outstanding Research. @sydney.edu.au @thecesarelab.bsky.social
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November 27, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Professor Phil Robinson was honoured to be a keynote speaker at a recent biomedical conference in Seoul, South Korea. Prof Robinson was chosen as a cancer proteomics expert to discuss the latest technological trends and global models that encourage collaboration in proteome research.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Promising news from our cancer labs today! CMRI scientists have found a new way to treat very aggressive cancers like neuroblastoma and glioblastoma that can be very hard to cure. Read more here: https://www.cmrijeansforgenes.org.au/news/new-approach-to-treating-aggressive-cancers
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November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Our researchers have become the first in the world to use stem cells to study one of the genetic causes of blindness. Their work on Leber Congenital Amaurosis is out in Stem Cell Reports today. Read more here: https://ow.ly/4Wnc50XuuUJ

Cell Press #StemCell #Blindness #CMRI
November 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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We are pleased to announce that Professor Hilda Pickett has been awarded an Osteosarcoma research grant for her work to slow the growth of cancer cell targeting telomeres.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Congratulations to Professor Hilda Pickett, Jadon Wells and former Children's Medical Research Institute student Andrea Iribarren-Lopez for a publication out in Frontier in Immunology.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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With access to ResetData’s AI compute resources, ProCan aims to develop a world-first model that integrates key aspects of a cancer patient’s clinical data with protein data generated in ProCan from many thousands of cancer samples, to transform how cancer is diagnosed and treated.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Having won ResetData’s National AI-F1 Innovation Challenge, we were delighted to welcome ResetData’s CEO Bass Salah into our ProCan labs to see the clear impact of his company’s generous donation of $1m in AI computation, which will benefit future generations of children (and adults) with cancer!
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October 31, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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2/4 It was a wonderful opportunity for our scientists, A/Prof Anai Gonzalez Cordero and Dr Eden Robertson to talk about their work and hear directly from families about their needs.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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1/4 Thank you to all our families who attended the Inherited Retinal Disease Patient and Family Engagement Day held in Melbourne this week.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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1/3 We are extremely grateful to have two Children's Medical Research Institute scientists, Professor Hilda Pickett and Professor Tony Cesare, awarded Australian Research Council grants this week!
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October 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Our very own Professor Leszek Lisowski was chosen to star on Dr Karl Kruszelnicki podcast Shirtloads of Science to talk about his extraordinary work with viral vectors. Learn more about his lab at CMRI by listening here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10e2VcSmIRA
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October 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Also in attendance were Children's Medical Research Institute's lab heads Professor Ian Alexander and Professor Leszek Lisowski who were founding scientists at VVMF and instrumental in its inception.

#VVMF #CMRI #MedicalResearch #Westmead
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October 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Alessia, who is a face of Jeans for Genes, and her family were special guests as they know firsthand the importance of producing gene therapies right here in Australia.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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It was wonderful to see the Westmead medical research community come together to celebrate the official opening of the Viral Vector Manufacturing Facility (VVMF).
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October 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Congratulations to Blake Lane for winning best poster at this week’s Australian Cell Cycle, DNA Repair and Telomere Meeting in Melbourne.
October 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Children’s Medical Research Institute was well represented at the recent European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy in Seville with scientists Professor Leszek Lisowski, Professor Anai Gonzalez Cordero and Professor Ian Alexander.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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“In order to make rapid progress, increasingly we need to make research a team endeavour’’ Prof Reddel said during his welcome to the event which was focused on solving global health issues with local solutions. We look forward to today's program!
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October 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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It was a great first day at the Westmead Research and Innovation Conference yesterday which featured a presentation by Prof Roger Reddel on using proteomic data for precision oncology, as well as abstracts from Dr Pragathi Masamsetti on her research at CMRI.
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October 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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1/3 Children’s Medical Research Institute is thrilled to announce a huge win for ProCan, taking out the ResetData AI-F1 National Innovation Challenge. As the winning bid, announced at SXSW Sydney today, ProCan will get access to $1m worth of AI tokens. @sxswsydney.com
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October 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Congratulations to A/Prof Pengyi Yang who has developed a way for scientists to improve their use of mathematical modelling in understanding complex biological systems. His work was published today in Nature Methods.

Read more here: https://ow.ly/n1BZ50XakIa

University of Sydney (USYD)
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October 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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1/2 In work published this weekend, Children's Medical Research Institute's ProCan® team and collaborating cancer researchers have uncovered new clues in the proteins of pancreatic cancer that could help clinicians detect the disease earlier and choose the best treatments for each patient.
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September 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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We work with closely with the team at SCHN, particularly in the exciting field of gene and cell therapies, and it was wonderful to hear Michelle passionately explain how scientists and clinicians can work together to bring treatments to children sooner.
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September 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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We are incredibly grateful to Dr Michelle Lorentzos, Advanced Therapeutics Medical Lead at The Sydney Children’s Hospital Network, for taking the time to speak at Children's Medical Research Institute last Friday.
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September 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM