The science behind the headlines.“Breakthrough!” “A major scientific first!” “The world’s first human synthetic embryos!” These are some of the breathless headlines that have appeared in the media since researchers announced they had developed embryo models...

Thank you to our donors! You're helping emerging science leaders attract more funding from other sources. With your support, we have awarded 18 promising researchers with Metcalf Prizes for Stem Cell Research.Each year, we award two $60,000 prizes...

Extremely premature babies’ own stem cells could hold the key to a new treatment for brain injury associated with preterm birth. Monash University researcher Associate Professor Atul Malhotra, backed by the Foundation, is leading a clinical trial...

Nasal stem cell research legend and 2017 Australian of the Year Professor Emeritus Alan Mackay-Sim AM died on 4 January 2023. “Professor Emeritus Alan Mackay-Sim’s work in understanding the human brain and stem cells was game-changing and...

What do new gene and cell therapies have to offer conditions like cancer, inherited eye diseases, spinal muscular atrophy and other degenerative diseases? Can we engineer immune cells to treat cancer? Or bring eye sight by...

Researchers working with stem cells to restore sight and fight blood cancers are the two winners of the 2022 Metcalf Prizes for Stem Cell Research, awarded by the National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia.   Dr...

Melbourne researcher Dr Peter Houweling is growing mini-muscles in the lab, in order to study muscular dystrophy in children, without the need for invasive and painful tissue biopsies. “Basically, we take an ordinary blood sample and regress...