Associate Professor Shane T Grey Related News
Transplantation society awards two Garvan immunologists
05 Jul 2011
Two PhD students from the Grey lab were distinguished by The Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) at its annual conference last week - Jeanette Villanueva and Nathan Zammit. Jeanette won the prestigious Kidney Health Australia Award for the best overall laboratory-based abstract and presentation. She also won a Young Investigator Award, as did Nathan Zammit.
Shane Grey wins award for diabetes research
07 Sep 2010
Garvan immunologist Dr Shane Grey has won the prestigious 2010 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation / Macquarie Group Foundation Diabetes Research Innovation Award for an Early Career Researcher.
Potential preventative therapy for Type 1 diabetes
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29 Apr 2009
Immunology researchers at Garvan believe they may have found a preventative therapy for Type 1 diabetes, by making the body's killer immune cells tolerate the insulin-producing cells they would normally attack and destroy, prior to disease onset.
Major breakthrough in transplantation immunity
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06 Apr 2009
Garvan scientists have made a discovery that may one day remove the need for a lifetime of toxic immunosuppressive drugs after organ transplants. They have successfully tested a method, in experimental mice, of adjusting the immune system for just long enough to receive a tissue transplant and accept it as ‘self’.
Creating indestructible insulin-producing cells
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14 Nov 2007
Dr Shane Grey, head of Garvan's Gene Therapy and Autoimmunity Group, has received $350,000 from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, as part of their Australian Islet Transplantation Program. The grant will help him genetically modify cells enabling them to defy the body's attempts to reject or kill them after transplant.
Grant paves way to finding potential cure for Type 1 diabetes
26 Sep 2007
Dr Shane Grey, head of Garvan’s Gene Therapy and Autoimmunity Group, has been awarded a $3 M Program Grant, a joint initiative between the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in Australia. Dr Grey aims to improve the success rate of‘islet transplantation’, a potential cure for Type I diabetes.
