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Professor Stefan Bröer
Thursday, 11 Apr 2019

Stefan Bröer is looking for the right molecule for a biological target, that could be developed into a drug to treat diabetes. Now ANU has its own library of compounds, available to biological and medical researchers, managed by the Research School of Chemistry.

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Tuesday, 18 Dec 2018

Aude Fahrer's work aims to activate the immune cells responsible for attacking cancer, in a simple, low cost way.

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Tuesday, 25 Sep 2018

Alex Maier has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology.

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Thursday, 23 Aug 2018

They say leaders are born not made, but it seems the opposite is true for queen bees, according to a new study by researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) and Queen Mary University of London.

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Tuesday, 27 Feb 2018

New research from The Australian National University (ANU) has drilled down to the molecular level to find similarities across six pharmaceutical drugs used in pain relief, dentist anaesthetic, and treatment of epilepsy, in a bid to find a way to reduce unwanted side-effects.

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Linden Muellner-Wong received her RSB Director's Prize in Honours award from RSB Director, Allen Rodrigo. Image Sharyn Wragg.
Tuesday, 13 Feb 2018

Linden Muellner-Wong has won a 2017 RSB Director's Prize in Honours.

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Events

A group of eight diverse people smiling and sitting on steps at the Bio21 Institute.
22 Jul 2022 | 1pm

Mitochondrial diseases (MDs) are the largest and most common group of inherited metabolic disorders. They comprise over 350 monogenic diseases and affect at least one child born each week in Australia.

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7 Jul 2022 | 3pm

Nutritional deficiencies are a leading cause of human susceptibility to infectious diseases and antibiotic treatment failure. Specifically, our intake of dietary lipids has changed dramatically, yet microbe-lipid interactions during infection are poorly understood.

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22 Jun 2022 | 3 - 4pm

Bacterial infections remain a global public health challenge and there is a critical need for the identification and molecular understanding of new targets for antimicrobial design.

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9 Jun 2022 | 1pm

Current treatments for malaria are threatened by drug resistance, and new antimalarials are urgently required to ensure the continued ability to treat malaria infections into the future.

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A smiling woman in a white lab coat stands in a laboratory filled with shelves of chemical bottles and lab equipment.
2 Jun 2022 | 1:30pm

B0AT1 (Slc6a19) is a sodium-dependent neutral amino acid transporter catalyzing the secondary active transport of neutral amino acids across the brush border membrane of the kidney and intestine.

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A smiling woman with sunglasses on her head standing in front of a vibrant yellow rapeseed field under a clear blue sky.
2 Jun 2022 | 1pm

Malaria is an ancient disease leading to the death of more than half a million people every year.

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