CCRM Australia offers unique training programmes to PhDs and ECRs that provide an international perspective on commercialising science, as well as the experiences of mentors who have worked in Regenerative Medicine on the global stage. This...

A world-first therapy, developed at Hudson Institute of Medical Research and Monash University, using cells from the human placenta to repair the damaged lungs of premature babies, is giving hope to families of the most fragile...

Professor Melissa Little, the stem-cell expert who developed ‘mini-kidneys’ at Melbourne’s Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, has received one of Australia’s top awards for a woman in medical research.Professor Melissa Little, the stem-cell expert who developed ‘mini-kidneys’...

The 2018 Metcalf Prizes for Stem Cell Research are now open. We're inviting mid-career stem cell scientists to apply. Two prizes, worth $50,000 each, will be awarded to one male and one female mid-career researcher.Applications for...

The National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia is delighted to announce that cord blood expert Dr Ngaire Elwood has joined our Board of Directors. Here is a story from one of our past newsletters about Ngaire and her...

You, me and ABC's The Science Show host Robyn Williams - we all started life as a single stem cell. Our 2017 Metcalf Prize winner Jessica Mar was a guest on ABC RN's The Science Show, sharing her career journey from...

A team of Australian and Dutch researchers have successfully built a mini-kidney from stem cells and transplanted it into a mouse where it has matured into tissue with blood vessels, which is capable of filtering blood....