September 2024
The mRNA gold rush – transforming lives through discovery
SVI will receive $100,000 to develop new treatments for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease harnessing mRNA editing technology. This condition impacts over 5 million Australians and is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
September 2024
Ruth and Gus – A Love Story
SVI is grateful to Ruth for leaving a major gift to help medical research. A gift in your Will is an immensely powerful way to make a difference, whether you’ve been personally affected by the diseases we study at SVI, or simply want to invest in the future health of our community.
September 2024
Researchers swap lab-coats for footy guernseys
The Big St Vs were courageous in the annual MRI Footy Tournament in clashes against WEHI and Peter Mac at Royal Park. Fuelled by lolly snakes and sausages, our ferocious team took to the field to prove their mettle.
September 2024
How much does it cost to save a life?
It is more important than ever to increase funding for medical research institutes to be able to continue their life-changing projects
September 2024
Remembering Dr Frank Morgan
It is with sadness that we acknowledge the death of Dr Frank Morgan (1940-2024), SVI’s second Director.
August 2024
Leading-edge kids’ cancer research gets a boost
Dr McLeman is set to receive $15,000 from the Col Reynolds Fellowship Program established by The Kids' Cancer Project. Named for founder Col Reynolds OAM, the aim of the Fellowships is to future proof childhood cancer research by encouraging new researchers and retaining talented scientists in the field of childhood cancer research.
August 2024
Celebrating 45 years – the hunch that led to a wonder drug used worldwide
Professor Jack Martin’s research began a discovery cascade that led to the identification of a revolutionary new protein and the development of a novel and effective drug therapy that is now used worldwide to treat osteoporosis, cancer and other diseases
August 2024
Liz’s medal quaddie
Dr Liz Paratz receives four prestigious awards for her work in sudden cardiac arrest
August 2024
SVI’s August Highlights
A wrap up of our latest achievements. Congratulations to Davis, Jarmon, Louise, Vita and Li.
August 2024
Survive and Thrive – How Homo Sapiens became Earth’s apex predators
Head of SVI’s Human Genomics and Evolution Lab, Associate Professor Irene Gallego Romero has been studying the ways in which natural selection and evolution have shaped humanity and to understand how our species' past defines our present.
August 2024
SVI Researchers join MedChem Pilot Program
Congratulations to Dr. Kim Loh, A/Prof. Jonathan Oakhill, Dr. Christopher Meoli on their selection into the Inaugural MedChem Australia Projects initiative. Their research project focus is on 'Developing a new protein kinase inhibitor for metabolic disease'.
July 2024
Minister for Medical Research supports SVI’s efforts to turn science fiction into reality
Until recently, gene editing technologies were science fiction but now, Andrew’s team is developing cutting edge gene edition technologies that hope to prevent children and young adults from dying of inherited bone marrow failure syndromes.
July 2024
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Researcher Joins SVI
SVI proudly welcomes Dr Elizabeth Paratz, who has joined SVI’s Heart, Exercise and Research Trials (HEART) Lab as a Team Leader. Dr Paratz will lead a team of SVI researchers, working closely with Professor La Gerche and scientists at VCCRI, who are also undertaking research into sudden cardiac arrest.
July 2024
Funding boost for multiple myeloma research
A four-year grant of $2.9M, announced in June from the Medical Research Future Fund’s Genomics Health Futures Grant will support a multi-centre and multidisciplinary team led by SVI’s Associate Professor Elaine Sanij to identify and validate blood biomarkers to provide early detection of multiple myeloma and to monitor disease progression and response to treatment.
2024 Scholarship Dinner
SVI's Top-up Scholarships program is a highly successful community-led fundraising initiative which has been supporting our students for more than 30 years.
June 2024
World-first research offering hope for type 1 diabetes
In 2023, Professor Tom Kay and Helen Thomas celebrated 30 years of working together. In the same year, they also published the results of their type 1 diabetes clinical trial which offers hope for the improved treatment of the condition.
June 2024
Father-Daughter Duo Walk 80km to Fund Research for Type 1 Diabetes
“Type 1 diabetes can be unpredictable and time-consuming. Despite my experience living with this disease, watching Zoe navigate the grief, anger and sadness of this diagnosis is very difficult,” Craig said.
June 2024
Finding the key to metabolic health
As an internationally recognised expert on adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK), Jon is building on the work of giants in the field like SVI’s Professor Bruce Kemp, who was the first in the world to sequence the enzyme.
June 2024
SVI Charity Golf Day 2024 – Good times as par as the eye can see
Thanks to the amazing support from our sponsors, SVI's charity golf day raised $100,000 to fund research that seeks to cure some of Australia’s most prevalent diseases, including cancer, type 1 diabetes and heart disease.
June 2024
Announcing our Rising Stars
Early career researchers are the engines that drive discovery research. They strive every day to deliver science with purpose, aiming to turn science fiction into science fact.