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Arrow Bone Marrow Transplant Foundation Inc. -
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Arrow’s mission is to find a cure for leukaemia and other diseases treatable by stem cell therapy and to provide support to assist patients and their families and carers.
Research - Arrow provides funding for a Senior Research Scientist within the Blood Diseases and Cancer Research Unit at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. Current research, focuses on a newly discovered “gene switch” that regulat…
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I was diagnosed on March 2, 2004 with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukameia.
I had just returned to Sydney from college in the USA, while on a tennis scholarship, and I was extremely fit and healthy. I had been experiencing excruciating upper back pain which then moved into my lower back and both legs. I thought the pain was just an injury from going to the gym or playing tennis, but blood tests reveal…
Entry Last Updated :10-Feb-2009
Baker Heart Research Institute -
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The Baker Heart Research Institute is an international leader in cardiovascular research, with a multidisciplinary clinical focus on improved methods of diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease and diabetes in the community. This is achieved through activities ranging from research in the laboratory to clinical trials, patient care and education. The Baker has built its international rep…
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Prevention in the community
Supporting the four themes of our research is the Preventative Cardiology Unit. This unit is a long-standing initiative of the institute, devoted to preventing heart disease by improving the management of cardiovascular disease risk in the community. A varied and growing number of research projects aim to reduce the prevalence of disease and disease risk factors in t…
Entry Last Updated :08-Apr-2007
BrizBrain & Spine Research Foundation -
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The BrizBrain & Spine Research Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation and registered charity dedicated to advancing the treatment of brain and spinal conditions. Through researchl, our goal is to improve the treatment and post-operative care of patients so they can return to a normal life as quickly as possible.…
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RESTORING ORDER AND GIVING HOPE TO BRAIN TUMOUR PATIENTS
There's an adage that without your health, you've got nothing. It's a saying that resonates so strongly for the hundreds of people diagnosed with a terminal illness every year. The shock, the grief, the trauma of discovering there is limited time left to live has a profound impact on most patients, their families and friends.
Last Christ…
Entry Last Updated :17-Jan-2010
Burnet Institute -
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The Burnet Institute is Australia's largest communicable diseases research institute, investigating some of today's most serious viral infections such as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and measles.
It was founded in 1986 and named in honour of the highly acclaimed Australian scientist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet. We integrate basic and applied laboratory research in virology and other communicable diseas…
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US funding for Australian-invented gel to prevent HIV
An Australian consortium has won $26 million in funding from the US National Institutes of Health(NIH) to further develop an anti-HIV gel.
The consortium includes the Burnet Institute and Melbourne-based biotech company Starpharma, the University of NSW’s National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research and the Thai Red Cross.…
Entry Last Updated :17-Apr-2007
Centenary Institute -
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The Centenary Institute forms a critical point of contact and intellectual engagement between Sydney University and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
Our unique blend of highly skilled staff, equipment and facilities has allowed us to become world leaders in the following critical areas of medical research:
• Cancer
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Infectious Diseases
The Centenary Insti…
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The Centenary Institute is currently in an exciting growth phase, having doubled our size in the past three years. As a leader in independent medical research in Australia, we are already a generative force for innovative thought, a gathering place for the brightest and the best minds seeking cures in Australia. Our partnership with LifeHouse to establish the Centenary-LifeHouse Cancer Researc…
Entry Last Updated :25-Aug-2010
Cerebral Palsy Foundation -
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The Cerebral Palsy Foundation was established to take on the global challenge of finding the prevention and cure for cerebral palsy. This will be achieved by:-
• funding research
• expanding a grants program
• encouraging researchers to adopt cerebral palsy as their area of study
• bringing together the best research minds and sharing information
• building partnerships.…
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Entry Last Updated :03-Aug-2009
Cure The Future -
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Cure The Future (The Cell & Gene Trust) raises funds for medical research into innovative cell and gene therapies. In contrast to charities that raise funds for specific diseases or institutions, our focus is on the promise of cell and gene therapies to cure all types of diseases such as heart disease, cancer, haemophilia and diabetes. Key to this research is the development of new platform techno…
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Entry Last Updated :02-Sep-2010
FSHD Global Research Foundation Limited -
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FSHD Global Research Foundation's objective is to fund medical research into finding a treatment and cure for FSHD muscular dystrophy, the most common form of muscular dystrophy.…
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Stem Cell Breakthrough -MEDIA RELEASE - 19 March 2009.
Sydney IVF Stem Cell Breakthrough Gives New Hope To FSHD Cure.
Sydney, Australia - Researchers at Sydney IVF and the Australian-based FSHD Global Research Foundation have scored a global break-through, producing the first stem cell line specific to a common form of muscular dystrophy.
Facio-scapulo-humeral Dystrophy - or FSHD - is the…
Entry Last Updated :10-Aug-2010
Heart Research Institute -
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The prevention of death and suffering from heart disease through an understanding of the biological processes that cause atherosclerosis - hardening of the arteries…
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The Heart Research Institute was founded in 1989 as an independent, completely autonomous research facility and has since gained an excellent national and international reputation for heart research.…
Entry Last Updated :14-Oct-2005
Howard Florey Institute -
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At the Florey, internationally renowned scientists work together with talented young researchers to make discoveries about the brain. Our scientists undertake clinical and applied research that can be developed into treatments to combat brain disorders, and new medical practices. Their discoveries will improve the lives of those directly, and indirectly, affected by brain disorders.
Research ar…
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As Australia’s largest brain research institute, the Howard Florey Institute with its team of expert scientific researchers is contributing significantly to the neuroscience revolution that promises to improve individual and community health in Australia and around the world.…
Entry Last Updated :08-Apr-2007