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.
June 2024
Support medical research and life-changing discoveries
Every dollar counts in the battle against multiple myeloma. With your support, we can fund critical research efforts aimed at developing a more precise and less invasive way to detect it, assess its progression and evaluate treatment effectiveness.
May 2024
Making precision medicine a reality for type 1 diabetes
Professor Helen Thomas has been awarded a $600,000 grant from JDRF for research aimed at moving away from the current ‘one size fits all’ approach to the treatment of type 1 diabetes.
May 2024
Swinging for Science – Meet our Golf Day Sponsors
With one week to go until our annual Charity Golf Day, SVI would like to thank our indispensable sponsors for their support. Without you, our team of over 300 staff and students would not be able to tackle some of the most critical health challenges facing society today.
May 2024
Running under a four-minute mile could be the key to a long and healthy life
A new study released on the 70th anniversary of Sir Roger Bannister’s sub-four-minute mile record has revealed the first 200 runners to follow in his footsteps also share another remarkable trait: longevity.
April 2024
Mapping the maze – New research sheds light on Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Dr Davis McCarthy and collaborators have published a pioneering study on the genetic factors that influence the development and progression of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), an incurable respiratory disease diagnosed in over 1,250 Australians each year.
January 2024
Wildely optimistic – Supporting research into multiple myeloma
In late 2023, Associate Professor Elaine Sanij and SVI’s Christine Martin Fellow, Dr Jian Kang, were awarded two grants by The Barrie Dalgleish Centre for Myeloma and Related Blood Cancers. Read more about how Elaine's work is being supported by someone with the disease Kare Wilde.
April 2024
New funding to support innovative cancer research
Associate Professor Elaine Sanij has been awarded a Cancer Australia Ideas Grant for her groundbreaking work on innovative cancer therapies.
March 2024
Blood cancer breakthrough
The head of SVI's DNA Damage & Cancer Therapy Lab, Associate Professor Elaine Sanij and her collaborators have made a remarkable breakthrough on a new way to potentially treat one of the most common and aggressive forms of blood cancer.
February 2024
Congratulations to Professor André La Gerche
Congratulations to André La Gerche on his promotion to Professor.
February 2024
Congratulations to Dr Matthew Lacorcia
Matt has been awarded a JDRF Postdoctoral Fellowship for his work on developing an early diagnostic test for type 1 diabetes.
October 2023
The heart of it
Congratulations to Associate Professor Jon Oakhill who has been awarded a Heart foundation Vanguard grant to test a potential new drug treatment for a common underlying cause of cardiovascular disease.
November 2023
A magical night at The Jade Lantern
Research from six of SVI’s brightest scientists will be supported in 2024 thanks to the generosity of supporters who attended SVI's recent For the Love of Science event at the Fitzroy Town Hall.
January 2024
New early diagnostic test for Friedreich ataxia heart disease
Associate Professor Shiang (MAX) Lim has been awarded funding to work on the development of a new, non-invasive test to diagnose and monitor heart disease in people with a genetic condition that, up until now, has made diagnosis impossible.
November 2023
SVI joins in search for new treatments for a deadly disease
Associate Professor Jon Oakhill has been awarded NHMRC funding as part of a collaboration with James Cook University and other national and international institutions to advance the management of a deadly disorder causing weakening of the main abdominal artery.
January 2024
Exhausting study
In an article published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), A/Prof Bala Krishna Murthy turned this concept of immune exhaustion on its head, to stop immune cells from destroying insulin-producing cells in type 1 diabetes.
December 2023
New hope for type 1 diabetes
An Australian world-first clinical trial published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, has shown that a commonly prescribed rheumatoid arthritis drug can preserve the body’s own insulin production and suppress the progression of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in those newly diagnosed with the condition.