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End of Year Address from the Director, Professor Peter Currie
Despite another year disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 was a year of tremendous achievement at ARMI. From excellent scientific output to the continued camaraderie amongst ARMI staff and students, ARMI Director of Research Professor Peter Currie reflects on the past year and looks to the future with great optimism. Q: What were your highlights […]
Heart to Heart: ARMI scientists and Lebanese Medical Researchers One Step Closer to Understanding Congenital Heart Disease
For ARMI scientist Jeannette Hallab from the Ramialison group, the Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) Genome Project is very close to her heart. Over the past few years, Jeannette has spearheaded this collaborative endeavour. The Ramialison group has undertaken the project at ARMI, with Lebanese clinicians Principle Cardiothoracic Surgeon Dr Elie Sawan, who visited ARMI in […]
FAMOUS Program Launches, Bringing Together Australia and Brazilian Scientists
Around 100 medical researchers dialled in from Australia and Brazil for the virtual launch of FAMOUS, the FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation) – Monash University Collaboration Seed Program. This exciting new initiative will support new collaborations in the health sciences between research groups in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, and Monash University, emphasising online […]
Patrick Hughes: Bringing Medicine, Art and Science to ARMILAB
Dr Patrick Hughes understands the importance of learning and pursues learning, from French to fly fishing to woodworking, in all its different shapes and forms with great aplomb. This deep appreciation of knowledge, extensive medical background, and undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and clinical research make him an exciting new addition to ARMI’s Leadership Advisory Board […]
Sister Cities have Another Successful Symposium
October in the ARMI calendar has become synonymous with the Monash University – Osaka University Joint Symposium on Advanced Biomedical Sciences. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic had once again interfered with this year’s meeting, preventing it from taking place in person. Despite that, researchers enthusiastically jumped online to discuss their work, exchange ideas and strengthen partnerships […]
Untangling the Heart’s Genome: Now in 3D
Research led by Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute and Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) researchers at Monash University has combined cutting-edge genomics and 3D “gaming” modelling to understand how all genes are expressed in different parts of the heart, unveiling complex patterns and novel markers. To help visualise this new research, the team, led by Monash […]
ARMI Alumni in Australia: Dr Hozana Castillo
It’s been a “round the world” trip for ARMI alumni Dr Hozana Castillo, who first arrived in Australia in 2016 as part of her postdoctoral studies with the Kaslin Group at ARMI. After returning to her native Brazil in 2018, Hozana is once again back in Melbourne and now working in industry to support drug […]
ARMI Annual Report 2020
In what was an unprecedented year globally, ARMI staff and students rose to the difficulties with great adaptability and resilience. In spite of the year’s challenges, 2020 saw ARMI’s standing as a world-leading institute in the field of regenerative medicine continue to grow, with another great year of research published in the highest-impact academic journals. […]
ARMI scientists combine innovative technologies to improve image analysis
ARMI scientists have developed a new method to obtain specific bone measurements from imaging scans, potentially enhancing accuracy and efficiency for developmental biologists and evolutionary researchers in the field. The work, led by ARMI group leader Alberto Roselló-Díez, was recently published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. “We have developed a user-friendly semi-automatic method […]
Azelle Hawdon: ARMI’s newest social media ambassador
ARMI student Azelle Hawdon has a keen eye for detail. With her PhD project in the Zenker Group involving using cutting-edge live imaging technologies to understand the underlying mechanisms of embryo development, Azelle spends a lot of time looking down the microscope observing tiny movements in the microtubule cytoskeleton – structures that shape and help […]