Dr Daniel Christ Related News
Romain Rouet wins 2011 Castle Harlan Award
09 Nov 2011
Romain Rouet has received the $10,000 USD Castle Harlan Award for being the most outstanding early career PhD student at the Garvan Institute in 2011. Castle Harlan Inc. is a US-based private equity firm that wishes to support the kind of medical research being undertaken at Garvan.
Silencing a deadly conversation in breast cancer
MEDIA RELEASE:
02 Jun 2011
Garvan researchers have shown that a molecule known as ‘hedgehog’ sits at the centre of a cellular 'switchboard' in breast cancer, transmitting biochemical signals between the cancer cells and the healthy cells nearby. They have identified a new way of turning off this cellular cross talk - which would otherwise allow the cancer to thrive. This off switch offers a potential therapeutic, especially for women with cancers that do not respond to current treatments.
Geoffrey Grigg Travelling Fellowship between Garvan and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
02 Jun 2010
Garvan and the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), based in Cambridge, have set up the Geoffrey Grigg Travelling Fellowship aimed at enabling short scientific exchange visits between the two institutions.
