2010 News
Professor Jonathan Sprent Top Ranked NHMRC Research Fellow for 2010
10 Mar 2010
Last week, NHMRC announced awards for the highest ranked recipients of grants and fellowships for 2010. Garvan Immunologist Professor Jonathan Sprent received the Achievement Award as the Top Ranked NHMRC Research Fellow.
Surprising findings about Hepatitis C and insulin resistance
MEDIA RELEASE:
09 Mar 2010
Researchers at Garvan have now confirmed the link between Hepatitis C and Type 2 diabetes - people with the virus being 3 to 4 times more likely to develop diabetes, owing to high levels of insulin resistance in muscle. There is practically no insulin resistance in the liver, however, a surprising finding given that Hepatitis C is a liver disease.
What it might take to unravel the ‘lean mean machine’ that is cancer
MEDIA RELEASE:
22 Feb 2010
Garvan scientists have published a paper, online today in Nature Cell Biology, describing gene expression in a prostate cancer cell: more sweeping, more targeted and more complex than we could ever have imagined, even five years ago.
Raising the question of obesity in Asia
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12 Feb 2010
When it comes to obesity, it would seem that it’s very important to define terms, and equally important to ask questions about those terms. So say Garvan scientists and their American and Vietnamese collaborators who challenge findings published in 1994 which concluded that for a given Body Mass Index, Asians have a higher percentage of body fat than Caucasians.
How ‘lipid rafts’ help us mount an immune response
MEDIA RELEASE:
08 Feb 2010
Garvan immunologists have found that lipid rafts, hot spots of signalling activity in our cells, ramp up the sensitivity of certain immune cells, helping us mount an immune response
DA Approval for Major Australian Cancer Centre
MEDIA RELEASE:
17 Jan 2010
The Garvan Institute of Medical Research and St Vincent’s Hospital today welcomed the NSW Government’s approval of their development proposal for the Garvan St Vincent’s Cancer Centre lodged before the NSW Department of Planning.
How a single molecule gives our immune systems their memory
MEDIA RELEASE:
11 Jan 2010
By studying the blood cells of people with an immunodeficiency disorder, scientists at Garvan have been able to identify the molecular mechanisms that lead to the production of antibodies in human B cells. This has wider implications for potential treatment of certain cancers and autoimmune diseases.
Setting the record straight on weight loss
MEDIA RELEASE:
06 Jan 2010
It’s time to set the record straight. The only reliable way to lose weight is to eat less or exercise more. Preferably both. So why bother to state the obvious? Because a body of scientific literature has arisen over recent years, suggesting that fat oxidation – burning the fats we eat as opposed to the carbohydrates – is enough to promote fat loss. It isn’t.
