Outside Parliament House, 50 researchers wore white lab coats 🤍 while 50 grey coats hung beside them 🩶
A stark visual of what’s at stake for medical research in Victoria.
Half the Funding. Half the Future.
#MedicalResearch saves & changes lives.
Thank you to AAMRI for bringing us together.
Yesterday we stood with fellow researchers from across Victoria to deliver a clear message to the Government: increase investment in medical research to keep Vic at the forefront of scientific innovation & breakthroughs, & to ensure our community continues to benefit from life-changing discoveries.
Professor Sam Forster in his lab at Hudson Institute. Melbourne Australia.
As research into the gut microbiome grows, scientists are exploring its potential role in early brain development
Prof Sam Forster has received a prestigious award through Wellcome Leap’s Foundations of a Resilient Microbiome (FORM) program to optimise this research
Read more https://bit.ly/3NbrAw3
Hudson Institute endometriosis researchers. Clayton, Melbourne, Australia.
It's Endometriosis Awareness Month! Learn more about our endometriosis research: https://bit.ly/4doO0V3
Pain & endometriosis with Mamamia’s Podcast WELL. & Prof Caroline Gargett
Professor Caroline Gargett joined a panel to discuss her #Endometriosis research and the gender pain gap on Well. by Mamamia 🔊
Tune into this episode via
Spotify: https://bit.ly/3OTUVvt
Apple: https://apple.co/4ulVtu7
Youtube: https://bit.ly/4uo4iDQ
Noxopharm and @hudsonresearch.bsky.social announce a breakthrough scientific paper regarding the Sofra™ platform in top-ranking journal Nature Immunology.
Read the full announcement here: www.noxopharm.com/pdf/e17f82ba...
Dr Keeth Mayakaduwage & A/Prof Miranda Davies-Tuck
A/Prof Miranda Davies-Tuck & Dr Keeth Mayakaduwage examined whether The Safer Baby Bundle reduced stillbirth & perinatal mortality & whether its benefits were experienced equitably across communities.
Their findings are very encouraging.
🔗 bit.ly/4ko6QgK
#MedicalResearch saves & changes lives. 🔬
Hudson Institute of Medical Research is proud to stand behind this campaign calling on the Australian government to release the full legislated quota from the Medical Research Future Fund each year.
➡️ bit.ly/49ByUcH
#MedicalResearchMatters
Our scientists are looking for the complex interconnections that control inflammation. They are discovering new ways to diagnose, detect & treat inflammatory diseases & conditions. Read more: bit.ly/49xudAw
🔥 #Inflammation is your body’s response to infection or injury, but in overdrive it can result in your immune system mistakenly attacking healthy tissue. It's the cause of 50% of deaths worldwide & underpins hundreds of chronic diseases & conditions. 🌏
Would you use your cycle for science?
Do you have a #MenstrualCycle? 🩸
We're conducting a study to help us understand the physical, social & emotional factors that may influence a person’s decision to participate in studies about #MenstrualFluid.
Find out more about the Cycles for Science Study: https://bit.ly/4aQ7S2c
Another great presentation from @hudsonresearch.bsky.social Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases (CiiiD) PhD student, Anita Chaulagain (@aneeta0110) about type I interferon signalling during Shigella flexneri! #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
Dr Julia Chitty showing us how pirfenidone can be repurposed to treat viral exacerbations of COPD based on a novel precision-cut lung slice model. Exciting work!
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
@monashuniversity.bsky.social @hudsonresearch.bsky.social
Rachelia Raissa Wibawa from @hudsonresearch.bsky.social gave an excellent talk on her research which has identified novel genetic mutations in Legionella pneumophila that impact host transcriptional responses #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
A tower of macarons shaped and decorated like different cell types
Belated post of my macaron centrepiece from last week’s @ciiid-hudson.bsky.social Christmas party – “the cells of CiiiD”. A lot of work to produce this undetermined number of macarons (I lost count) 🙃 Big thanks to @biorender.bsky.social who I used to make the templates! @hudsonresearch.bsky.social
Grateful to work with some amazing people at the @ciiid-hudson.bsky.social @hudsonresearch.bsky.social
Including these special super smart ladies @jackiheraudfarlow.bsky.social and @sciencesophie.bsky.social
#sciencetribe 🧪👯♀️
Science buddies are the best. Definite highlight of moving to @hudsonresearch.bsky.social has been learning from these two.
@hudsonresearch.bsky.social gingerbread getting me through my last day of work before the holidays 🎄🧪🎄🧪🎄🧪
New paper from Dr Zahrah Azman et al. shows preterm growth-restricted lambs with asphyxia have impaired vascular contractility and heightened cardiac adrenergic responses, insights that matter for neonatal cardiovascular outcomes. Read & share 👇 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41432623/ #FGR #CardioSci
New study from our group:
Umbilical cord milking as a technique to harvest cord blood derived cells for regenerative applications
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@drabdulrazak.bsky.social @courtney-mcdonald.bsky.social @hudsonresearch.bsky.social
@pediatricresearch.bsky.social
L-R: Dr Nicole de Weerd, A/Prof Daniel Gough, Dr Ina Rudloff, Prof Graeme Polglase, A/Prof Kate Lawlor, Prof Paul Hertzog, Prof Elizabeth Hartland AM
Congrats to this year's National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Idea Grant recipients! 👏🥳
Seven of our researchers have been awarded over $13.4 million in NHMRC Ideas Grants to work on projects ranging from newborn health to viral & bacterial infections. Read more 👉 bit.ly/496uNVH
🚨 Preprint Alert 🚨
We discovered a new regulator of RIG-I-like receptors #MDA5 #RIG-I, which are critical innate immune sensors of #RNA that detect #viral infection.
Check out our #biorxiv #preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
tl;dr 🙃 thread below
Dr Abdul Razak and A/Prof Courtney McDonald in their lab at Hudson Institute
Dr Abdul Razak & A/Prof Courtney McDonald have discovered inflammation in the womb doesn’t just strike once, it lingers, sometimes for months after birth, continuing to harm fragile neural tissue long after the initial exposure & causing lasting damage to the developing brain
https://bit.ly/3JOweh
Our researchers are uncovering how infection & inflammation affect developing brains, so we can protect the most vulnerable babies & give them the best start in life.
Support lifesaving breakthroughs for the smallest patients with a donation before 31 December 2025: bit.ly/3JOwehJ
Tiny patients. Big breakthroughs.
1 in 10 babies is born too soon. #PretermBirth is the leading cause of death and disability in children.
Baby Elias was born at just 22 weeks, no bigger than a soft drink, fighting to survive. Tiny babies like Elias are at risk of brain injury from inflammation, which can cause lifelong conditions.
Distribution of importin 5 (IPO5) protein (in red) and two spermatogonial markers GILZ (in yellow) and GFRA1 (in green) in normal testis.
Prof Kate Loveland, Dr Julia Young & Dr Penny Whiley's latest research has pinpointed the essential role that the importin 5 protein (IPO5) plays in sperm formation. #MaleInfertility
Learn more in the Society for the Study of Reproduction journal, Biology of Reproduction, & ➡️ https://bit.ly/4hUt20G
CoLab is funding $770,000 for two biobanks - Monash Children’s Cancer Biobank & the Hudson Institute Living Biobank, helping researchers access high-quality samples and develop safer treatments.
Read story here - tinyurl.com/banking-on-a...
@hudsonresearch.bsky.social
#ChildrensCancer #Biobank
Image: Child in a hospital bed looking at a researcher, half colour, half black and white. Main heading: Half the funding. Half the future. Sub heading: Ask Canberra to keep its promise to medical research. Text: Breakthroughs don’t happen on broken promises. Tagline: Release the full Medical Research Future Fund aamri.org.au/mrff
Half the funding. Half the future.
The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) was meant to deliver $1B a year — only $650M is reaching researchers.
Join the call to release the full MRFF.
www.aamri.org.au/mrff
#releasethefullmrff
@markbutlermp.bsky.social
@jimchalmers.bsky.social
“As an independent you need to find areas that matter, that you can make a difference… I’m the only person who’s ever asked a question about medical research funding in the House.”
- Dr @mon4kooyong.bsky.social MP at AAMRI’s President’s Breakfast, on making a difference. #2025AAMRIConvention
We were honoured to welcome Minister Danny Pearson to showcase a major breakthrough in #Lupus treatment – an RNA-based topical drug developed right here in Clayton.
Read more in today's Herald Sun, and here: https://bit.ly/43EVn4X