We would like to say thank you to the Osteosarcoma Institute in the US for their support of our research and we’re excited to see what this project achieves for a disease of the bones that often impacts children and teenagers.

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.

We’re heading to the #AusCryptoCon on Nov 22–23! CMRI is harnessing crypto and NFTs to advance innovation and research into childhood genetic diseases. 📍 Use CMRI15 for 15% OFF your ticket and what you pay will be 100% donated. See you at our stall!

In this work they studied how the immune systems of people with multiple sclerosis were impacted as they aged to assist in clinical management and therapeutic strategies. Full study here:

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.

4/4 Continued funding and support are essential to advance research and ensure meaningful engagement with families affected by inherited retinal diseases. If you weren’t able to attend, a full recording can be found here:

3/4 This event was proudly organised by the Behavioural Sciences Unit at UNSW and the Stem Cell Medicine Group at Children's Medical Research Institute, with support from our partners at Vision Australia and Retina Australia. @UNSWScience @visionaustralia

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.

1/4 Thank you to all our families who attended the Inherited Retinal Disease Patient and Family Engagement Day held in Melbourne this week.

3/3 Both scientists are doing extraordinary work to further understand cancer at a cellular level, to improve treatments and ultimately patient outcomes. We congratulate them both on this wonderful achievement.

2/3 Hilda will be investigating how DNA repair pathways are activated to cause cell death and Tony’s work will look at the new biological role that these pathways play to expand our understanding of DNA repair biology.

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!

Our very own Professor Leszek Lisowski was chosen to star on @DoctorKarl podcast Shirtloads of Science to talk about his extraordinary work with viral vectors. Learn more about his lab at Children's Medical Research Institute by listening here: https://t.co/BwHKNCsQFQ

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

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.

It was wonderful to see the Westmead medical research community come together to celebrate the official opening of the Viral Vector Manufacturing Facility (VVMF).

We had a great turn out at the conference including talks by Professor Tony Cesare, Dr Scott Cohen, Dr Alex Sobinoff, Dr Jessie Gao and Dr Ash Harman as well as many CMRI scientists presenting posters.

Congratulations to Blake Lane for winning best poster at this week’s Australian Cell Cycle, DNA Repair and Telomere Meeting in Melbourne.

The Inherited Retinal Disease Patient & Family Engagement Day is almost here. Don’t miss your chance to connect with others and hear from leading researchers like CMRI's A/Prof Anai Gonzalez-Cordero. Registrations close tomorrow, 22nd October. https://t.co/JwyQkkK6LG

Other scientists include Dr Kate Mullany, Dr Andrea Perez-Iturralde Eva, Vivienne Kaiser, Maddy Knight and Eva Van Dijk. Many of our scientists were lucky enough to present their work and described the experience as a “stellar’’ opportunity to connect with scientists globally.