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Research Theme Leads
We warmly welcome our five research Theme Leads for 2024/2025:
- Professor Aniruddha (Ani) Desai – Theme Lead for Digital technology & transformation
- Professor Richard Gray – Theme Lead for Healthy people, families & communities
- Professor Nick Bond – Theme Lead for Resilient environments & communities
- Professor Lawrie Zion – Theme Lead for Social change & equity
- Associate Professor Erinna Lee – Theme Lead for Understanding & preventing disease
Note: From 2024, the La Trobe Institute for Sustainable Agriculture and Food will provide the strategic direction, external engagement and large-scale initiative development for the Sustainable Food and Agriculture theme, negating the need for a Theme Lead role for this theme.
Our Theme Leads' focus will be developing a program of research to address the goals of their theme. The Theme Leads will bring together researchers from across our schools and colleges and campuses to work towards common goals, building relationships with external partners and attracting research funding.
BioNTech to establish mRNA facility at La Trobe
La Trobe University will be home to the manufacturing of new investigational mRNA therapies for serious diseases including cancer, with global biotechnology company BioNTech planning to develop and commission a state-of-the-art mRNA clinical-scale manufacturing facility at the University’s Melbourne campus in Bundoora, in an agreement facilitated by the Victorian Government.
BioNTech is focused on utilising the potential of the immune system by developing investigational immunotherapeutic treatment methods including mRNA-based vaccine candidates, to fight cancer and other diseases.
AlleSense launches to enhance cancer diagnosis
La Trobe University is launching its first major spin-out company with technology that is set to revolutionise medical imaging and potentially save millions of lives.
AlleSense has been created to support the commercialisation of technology invented by La Trobe researchers Professor Brian Abbey and Dr Eugeniu Balaur, from the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science and the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences.
World-class Digital Innovation Hub launched
La Trobe University welcomed the Hon Gayle Tierney MP, Minister for Skills and TAFE, to open the world-class Digital Innovation Hub.
In partnership with global technology leaders Cisco and Optus, the Digital Innovation Hub is a state-of-the art innovation precinct, which offers unprecedented technological capability for greater collaboration between students, researchers, business and industry.
The Digital Innovation Hub will accelerate research and development across a wide range of critical sectors, including healthcare, education, advanced manufacturing, transportation, smart urban infrastructure and more.
La Trobe awarded $7.35m in NHMRC grants
La Trobe University research teams have been awarded a combined $7.35 million in grants to support groundbreaking health research projects.
Announced by the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Mark Butler MP, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants scheme funds researchers at all career stages in areas of health and medical research, from discovery to implementation.
Of significance is a $2.9 million NHMRC Investigator Grant awarded to the La Trobe researcher who invented a groundbreaking diagnostic tool to help detect early-stage cancer.
Organ and tissue donation
Researchers at La Trobe University met with young people to understand the knowledge gaps they have when it comes to making decisions about organ and tissue donation.
Explore the multiple videos addressing these knowledge gaps.
Opening of OTARC's new Victorian Early Assessment Clinic
We are thrilled to announce the official opening of the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre’s new Victorian Early Assessment Clinic. Situated on La Trobe University’s Bundoora Campus in Melbourne, OTARC’s Victorian Early Assessment Clinic (VEAC) provides families with a comprehensive needs assessment and differential diagnosis for children aged 12 - 36 months old. For more information or to book click here Victorian Early Assessment Clinic, Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, La Trobe University
Latest news
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Dr Judith Bishop awarded the 2024 Tracey Banivanua Mar Fellowship
Dr Judith Bishop has been appointed as the Tracey Banivanua Mar Fellow for 2024.
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Combatting infant genetic disorders
Examining fruit fly metabolisms could be the key to developing more targeted dietary treatments for newborns affected by a large group of life-threatening genetic disorders, a new study shows.
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Professor Adam Bourne announced as Director of leading social research centre
One of Australia’s leading scholars in LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing has been appointed as the new Director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University.
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Academic to progress important research at La Trobe University
Professor Kylie Lee, an expert in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander alcohol and drug use, is joining La Trobe’s Centre for Alcohol Policy Research to further her alcohol policy research.
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BioNTech to establish mRNA facility at La Trobe
BioNTech to establish mRNA manufacturing facility at La Trobe
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Natural Capital unlocks key to performance
Natural Capital Accounting unlocks key to performance
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Renowned Japanese scholar awarded highest academic honour
Professor Kaori Okano has been elected as a Fellow to the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
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No appetite for vegetarian diet to help the planet
Study finds no appetite for meat-free diet to help the planet
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Noisy knees affects 70 per cent of population
'My knee is cracking': expert says Dr Google isn't the answer
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Palliative care nurses disadvantaged by distance
Research reveals gaps in palliative care knowledge among rural nurses
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Older people at forefront of framework
A new resource delivering age-friendly healthcare to older people has been unveiled
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Potential test for early concussion-related injury
Researchers have used a technique to look for early markers of neurological decline in retired sport athletes
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