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Cancer North America Oceania RESEARCHER PROFILE Sarcoma

Radiation therapy techniques and combination treatments for sarcoma

By Bench Side Story — 5 days ago

Professor Angela Hong MBBS, MMed, PhD, FRANZCR is a Professor at Sydney Medical School of the University of Sydney. She is a radiation oncologist and has been a member of the Multidisciplinary Bone and Soft Tissue Tumour Clinic at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital/Chris O’Brien Lifehouse for the past 15 years. 

As a radiation oncologist located in Sydney, Australia, Professor Hong is focused on treating patients with bone and soft tissue sarcoma. And as a clinician scientist, her research focuses on developing innovative radiation therapy technique and combination treatments to improve the outcome for patients with sarcoma.

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Cancer Nanobiotechnology North America Oceania RESEARCHER PROFILE

Dietary Interventions Influencing Neurological Outcomes

By Bench Side Story — 3 months ago

With over a decade of experience as a dietitian and nutritionist, Carolina Blagojevic Castro specialises in providing personalised dietary guidance and customised meal planning tailored to meet each client’s unique health needs. She is known for her engaging and educational presentations on topics related to health and nutrition, sharing practical, evidence-based insights with both community groups and professional audiences.

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Cancer Nanobiotechnology North America Oceania RESEARCHER PROFILE

Good and bad extracellular vesicles in health and disease

By Bench Side Story — 3 months ago

Associate Professor Joy Wolfram has joint appointments in the School of Chemical Engineering and the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at The University of Queensland, and through her work at the AIBN, she aims to develop a new paradigm of therapeutics (using nanotechnology and cell products) to treat life-threatening diseases that are major causes of death globally, including cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, and breast cancer.

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Brain Gastrointestinal Tract North America Oceania RESEARCHER PROFILE

Visceral pain and the gut-brain axis

By Bench Side Story — 10 months ago

Professor Stuart Brierley is Director of the Visceral Pain Research Group, Director of the Hopwood Centre for Neurobiology, and Theme co-Leader of Lifelong Health at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI). 

Prof Brierley is an international expert on the ‘gut-brain axis’ and chronic visceral pain mechanisms. Current investigations are on a individual cell type called the enterochromaffin cell, and it helps signal pain and anxiety from the gastrointestinal tract to the brain.

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Cancer CASE STUDY Gastrointestinal Tract North America Oceania Research

Engineering bacteria to detect colorectal cancer cells

By Bench Side Story — 1 year ago

An international team of researchers from Adelaide and the United States has engineered bacteria capable of detecting mutated DNA released from colorectal cancer cells, opening the door to faster disease detection.

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