Congratulations Professor Doug Hilton
@WEHI_Director
- 2020 Melburnian of the Year!
A wonderful reflection of the important role medical research plays in the Melbourne community.
@cityofmelbourne
BREAKING NEWS: Institute Emeritus Professor Jacques Miller AC has been jointly awarded the 2019 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for his pioneering immunology discoveries
Massive congratulations to all
@NHMRC
Investigator Grant recipients, including these 13 amazing WEHI researchers leading new projects across areas including cancer, immunology, infectious diseases and bioinformatics. (1/2)
Congratulations to WEHI's 11 Investigator Grant recipients, supported by $21M in
@NHMRC
& MRFF funding.
Thank you
@GregHuntMP
for supporting these fantastic medical researchers!
Necroptosis is a form of inflammatory cell death driven by the protein MLKL.
In three
@NatureComms
papers out today, a multidisciplinary team have revealed new aspects of MLKL's function, and linked changes in MLKL to a human inflammatory disease
The Board of Directors of CSIRO has today announced that
@WEHI_Director
Professor Doug Hilton AO has been appointed as the next Chief Executive of
@CSIRO
.
More:
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
Thank you to all the brilliant
#WomenInScience
collaborating, creating, leading and innovating to make discoveries that improve lives 👩🔬
#WomenInScienceDay
#WomenInSTEM
Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Jacques Miller on jointly winning the 2018
@JapanPrizeAward
with Dr Max Cooper! The award recognises their discoveries of T and B cells and the subsequent impact on our understanding of immunity.
Congratulations to WEHI researcher & clinician
@ProfClareScott
, recognised in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours with a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to gynaecological
#oncology
and other
#rarecancers
. (1/3)
👏 👏 A huge congratulations to our 8 incredible researchers who have been awarded
@NHMRC
Ideas Grants to lead new projects investigating immune disorders, blood and infectious diseases and cancer.
Read about their diverse projects in the three tweet replies below 🧵
From today the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute becomes WEHI. Our new look and identity celebrates our history of working collaboratively to improve health outcomes in Australia and around the world.
At WEHI, we are brighter together.
Learn more:
Big congrats to two of our exceptional researchers
@ethangbaus
and
@LazarouLab
on receiving 5-year, $1.5m fellowships from the Rebecca L Cooper Medical Research Foundation (
@rlcmrf
).
Introducing the Professor Lynn Corcoran Early Learning Centre!
Thanks to
@JennyMikakos
@VicGovAu
, our incredible donors, precinct partners, staff and students for making this vision a reality
Just released: a new biomedical animation from Etsuko Uno and
@drewberryIV
at 🎞
p53 Tumour Suppressor shows how the protein p53 plays a central role in determining whether a damaged cell lives or dies.
Watch:
A very happy 90th birthday to Emeritus Professor Jacques Miller AC! 🎂
Jacques is famous for his discovery of the function of the thymus, revolutionising our understanding of the immune system, infection and disease.
Congrats to Institute researchers Prof David Huang, Prof Guillaume Lessene, A/Prof Peter Czabotar and Prof Andrew Roberts - recipients of the 2019 Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation!
#PMPrizes
@ScienceGovAu
Congratulations to Professor Jane Visvader for being inducted as a Fellow into the most prestigious cancer academy – the
@AACR
.
The induction honours Professor Visvader’s lifetime contributions towards understanding how normal cells give rise to breast cancer.
#AACRFellows
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Thank you to all the amazing
#WomenInScience
working hard to make medical research discoveries that improve lives 👩🔬
@WomenScienceDay
#womeninSTEM
Thank you
@GregHuntMP
for boosting our search for new medicines for
#COVID
-19 |: $3M MRFF funding for finding new antibody-based medicines (
@tham_lab
& collaborators) and drugs targeting viral deubiquitinases (led by David Komander)
#WEHIDrugDiscovery
WEHI president Jane Hemstritch AO has today announced that
@WEHI_Director
Professor Doug Hilton AO has decided to step down from his role, after almost four decades of unwavering dedication to WEHI and 14 years as director.
More:
Excited to announce the WEHI board has appointed Professor Ken Smith as our next director. 👏👏👏
We look forward to welcoming Ken when he commences in the role in May 2024.
Read the story 👇
Three
@WEHI_research
software projects limma, edgeR and Glimma led by Professor Gordon Smyth have received $290,000 from the
@ChanZuckerberg
Essential Open Source Software for Science program.
Happy – slightly delayed – 90th birthday to Sir Gustav Nossal, past WEHI director ('65-'96).We finally managed to celebrate with Gus in person for morning tea at WEHI Parkville.
@WEHI_Director
joked that an infectious disease may have slowed us down, but immunology saved the day!
New on WEHI-TV: A new animation by Etsuko Uno and narrated by
@GemmaKelly_1
visualises more than 40 years of research how the ‘tumour suppressor’ protein p53 prevents cancer-causing changes in cells.
Learn more and watch the full animation:
The Art of Science online exhibition is now open. Spectacular images and video captured by WEHI researchers are on display in an interactive 3D experience. Start exploring:
#WEHIResearch
Wonderful news that leukaemia treatment venetoclax + rituximab will be added to the PBS, announced today by
@GregHuntMP
.
Venetoclax is based on a WEHI discovery and many years of collaboration w/
@TheRMH
@PeterMacCC
@AbbVie_AU
Congratulations to WEHI researchers Kate Sutherland
@Sutherland_Lab
, Andrew Roberts &
@DrMistyJenkins
and their teams, who each received $5M
@nhmrc
Synergy Grants for their research into brain, blood and lung
#cancers
Congratulations to WEHI Lab Head A/Prof Marco Herold
@MarcoHerold_J
on being awarded the David Syme Research prize for his work on adapting CRISPR to advance clinical research 👏
via
@UniMelb
Tonight we are excited to announce the joint winners of the 2020 Burnet Prize, WEHI’s highest honour: Dr
@Rhea_Longley
and Dr Cyril Seillet.
Congratulations Rhea and Cyril! 🧵
Learn more:
A new study led by
@DrMistyJenkins
has shown CAR T cell therapy using specifically designed receptors can clear brain tumours in preclinical models.
Published in
@ClinTransImmuno
.
Big news!
@GregHuntMP
has announced $25m for our Drug Discovery Centre, significantly increasing Australian medical research’s capacity for developing new medicines for patients
#WEHIDrugDiscovery
WEHI is partnering with
@DeadlyScience
to foster the next generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scientists, in the first partnership of its kind.
Read more about the partnership :
#NRW2022
#BeBraveMakeChange
🌈🏳️🌈 Happy
#LGBTSTEMDay
! 🌈🏳️🌈 We're a proud sponsor of Australia's first ever LGBTSTEMday symposium - a wonderful event from
@QueersInScience
to showcase great minds in our LGBTQIA+ STEM community!
🎉🎉Congratulations to Madhu Dass on 30 years at WEHI!
As a member of our catering team, Madhu plays a vital role in keeping the Institute caffeinated and functioning ☕️🍪🍎😀
WEHI is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Sant-Rayn Pasricha and Professor Marnie Blewitt as joint acting deputy directors.
Read the story below 👇
"Do not wait for the next lockdown" - Prof Doug Hilton
@WEHI_Director
joined other top scientists including the directors of
@TheDohertyInst
and
@MCRI_for_kids
to encourage eligible Victorians to get their COVID-19 vaccines, including second doses of AstraZeneca.
📷
@theheraldsun
Congratulations Professor Andrew Roberts AM, appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his contributions to advancing the understanding and treatment of blood cancers, and service to haematology and cancer organisations.
#QueensBirthdayHonours
Congratulations Prof Wai-Hong Tham (
@tham_lab
), inducted into the 2023 Victorian Honour Roll of Women as a Change Agent! A wonderful achievement in recognition of her significant contributions to
#malaria
and infectious diseases
#research
.
Read more 👇
It was great to welcome Premier
@DanielAndrewsMP
and Minister
@JaalaPulford
to WEHI today to discuss
@VicGovAu
's $2 billion for the Breakthrough Victoria Fund and the way this will help enable vital medical discoveries here in Victoria.
#VicBudget2020
Massive congratulations to all the recipients of
@NHMRC
Investigator Grants, including our 17 remarkable researchers who are leading innovative projects covering malaria, blood cancer, the ubiquitin system, Parkinson's disease, brain cancer and beyond.
🧵1/4
Finding new cancer treatments has been an all-consuming pursuit for WEHI's Prof Anne Voss and Assoc Prof Tim Thomas, who last night won the 2023
#EurekaPrize
for Scientific Research.
@austmus
@eurekaprizes
Read more in
@theage
👇
WEHI and
@CSL
have joined forces to establish a Centre for Biologic Therapies to accelerate the development of new medicines, filling a gap in the Australian biotech landscape.
Congratulations Professors David Vaux and Andreas Strasser, awarded the 2019 CSL Florey Medal by
@TallpoppiesAIPS
for their pioneering research into the control of how cells die
Congratulations to Professor Gordon Smyth and Associate Professor
@SethMasters
, who are among the
@Webofscience
Highly Cited Researchers for 2020
Search the full list:
We’re celebrating the careers and retirement of seven leading Institute researchers: Professor Jerry Adams, Professor Lynn Corcoran, Professor Suzanne Cory AC, Professor Andrew Lew, Professor Nicos Nicola AO, Dr Ian Street and Professor David Vaux AO.
Congratulations to bioinformatics researchers Professor Gordon Smyth, who has been awarded an
@ABACBS
Honorary Senior Fellowship, and
@MRitchieAu
who won the Open Science Open Source Award at
#abacbs2020
An Australian-first childcare centre has opened in Melbourne's medical precinct in what's being hailed a landmark achievement for gender equality in science.
@hannah_jenkins
#7News
How can immune cells be harnessed to fight cancer?
@DrMistyJenkins
'
@NHMRC
-funded research towards immunotherapies for brain cancer has been included in the most recent NHMRC '10 of the Best' publication
Congratulations Associate Professor Wai-Hong Tham
@tham_lab
, our 2018 Burnet Prize winner for her research into
#malaria
. Learn about one of her recent achievements:
Huge congratulations to all the recipients of
@NHMRC
Investigator Grants, including our 13 remarkable researchers from WEHI who are leading innovative projects covering cancer, infectious diseases, immune defence, bioinformatics and beyond.
🧵1/2
Happy International Women’s Day! At WEHI we are committed to advancing opportunities for women across all areas of the institute.
Read about our gender equity initiatives at .
#IWD2022
#InternationalWomensDay
#WEHIWomen
‘Single cell multi-omics’ technologies have allowed our researchers to discover a previously unknown ancestor of T and B lymphocytes.
New research in
@NatImmunol
, led by
@ShalinHNaik
,
@Zalcenstein
,
@Luyi_T
, Jaring Schreuder & Sara Tomei.
Read more:
WEHI,
@CSL
&
@UniMelb
plan to launch a biotech incubator to support & grow early-stage Oz biotech companies, with financial & in-kind support from the partners & funding from
@BreakthroughVic
. The Incubator is due to open in 2023
A blood cancer drug has shown promise in killing ‘silent’
#HIV
cells and delaying reinfections, in a significant pre-clinical discovery that could lead to a future cure for the disease. The WEHI-
@TheDohertyInst
findings are now being translated into a clinical trial Watch👇
🧵1/2
Congratulations to Institute Deputy Director Professor Alan Cowman AC, and to philanthropist and Institute supporter Mrs Pamela Galli AO on being recognised today with Queen’s Birthday Honours.
#queensbirthdayhonours
We are proud to lend our support to the drive to establish a First Nation’s voice to Parliament that is enshrined in the Constitution. Our submission in support of the
#ulurustatement
In collaboration with hospitals in Melbourne we're proposing a clinical trial of a preventative treatment for COVID-19 in doctors, allied healthcare workers and paramedics.
A new era for global immunology research: the Snow Centre for Immune Health, being established at WEHI thanks to a $100m commitment from
@SnowMedical
.
In partnership with
@TheRMH
the Centre will transform how we research and treat immune disease. More 👇
Congrats to
@DrDJSheerin
and
@jo_hildebrand
- winners of the 2021 Eve Mahlab Awards for Blue Sky Research, and to
@mf_bennett
as People's Choice winner.
These awards fund the most exciting and promising research ideas from our talented
#WEHIPostdocs
. Congrats all! 👏👏👏
🎉 Congrats to A/Prof Sant-Rayn Pasricha
@srpasricha
on being shortlisted in the
@nature
Research Awards for Driving Global Impact for his work to address the global burden of anaemia
#DrivingGlobalImpact
🙌 Congratulations to our incredible researchers who’ve been awarded 3/4
@CancerVic
Venture Grants, a $1.9m initiative supporting the state’s brightest cancer researchers. (1/4)
The amount and activity of the inflammatory cytokine IL-1B is controlled by ubiquitination - new
@NatureComms
paper from Swarna Vijayaraj,
@BekkyFeltham
,
@_KateLawlor
and James Vince.
Read more:
Congratulations to WEHI cancer and immunology researcher
@charis_teh
on being named in the 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians! 🎉
#AsianAusLeadership
via
@abcnews
: Young Asian Australian leaders talk about how their families helped them succeed
Congrats to our breast cancer researchers
@biancacapaldo
&
@calebadawson
, whose stunning visualisation of the branching lobes of a milk duct was selected as one of Scientific American
@sciam
’s most beautiful science GIFs of 2019.
Read full article:
Fantastic to see WEHI in the top 20 on the 2019
@NatureIndex
for international non-profit/non-governmental organisations for biomedical sciences - and top Australian NPO/NGO!
#NatureIndex
Our very own
@drng
is a winner of the 2022 Metcalf Prize for Stem Cell Research! The prize will advance his pioneering research with
#StemCells
to find treatments for
#BloodCancers
.
@AusStemCell
Congratulations to
#cancer
researcher Dr Tracy Putoczki on winning a 2019 Viertel Fellowship
@Equity_Trustees
. The $1.25M funding will enable Tracy to continue untangling the role of cellular communication in
#pancreatic
and
#bowel
cancers.
Thrilled to announce this new frontier tech centre that's set to revolutionise
#drugdevelopment
for hard-to-treat cancers.
A brilliant initiative from WEHI,
@KidsCancerInst
and
@MonashUni
, backed by $15m in MRFF funding.
Read more 👉
🧵1/2
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
Thank you to all the inspiring
#WomenInScience
driving medical research forward and making discoveries to improve lives here in Australia and around the world 👩🔬
#WomenInScienceDay
#WomenInSTEM