Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI) was awarded multiple Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) grants to help improve the lives of children living with genetic diseases. The MRFF, which is an initiative of the Australian Government, has funded research projects in cancer, gene therapy, and stem cell medicine at CMRI. Dr Anai Gonzalez-Cordero, head of theContinue reading “CMRI Awarded Multiple Medical Research Future Fund Grants”
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Gene therapy trial success: game changer for children with SMA
New research has shown that gene therapy may provide an effective treatment for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a devastating and fatal genetic condition. SMA affects the motor nerve cells in the spinal cord, causing progressive muscle weakness and preventing babies from being able to roll, sit up, crawl, walk and eventually breathe. Until recently, it was the leading genetic cause of infant death in Australia, occurring in 1 in every 10,000 births.
CMRI announces new collaboration with Gyroscope Therapeutics
Children’s Medical Research Institute and Gyroscope Therapeutics Holdings, a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on treating diseases of the eye, today announced they have entered a research collaboration to develop next-generation clinical capsids, the protein shells of viral vectors used to deliver gene therapies. A team of researchers from CMRI and Gyroscope will work together in theContinue reading “CMRI announces new collaboration with Gyroscope Therapeutics”
Gene therapy project ranked top idea in Australia
A gene therapy project to save infants’ lives has been named the top ranked National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grant for 2020, in what the lead researcher describes as ‘proof that we weren’t just dreamers and symbolic of the power of the genomic revolution’. Professor Ian Alexander and his team were awardedContinue reading “Gene therapy project ranked top idea in Australia”
Announcing the establishment of the Australian Genome Therapeutics Centre
This collaborative effort will transform the treatment of children with serious inherited diseases and contribute to the development of exciting new treatment options for a wide range of other diseases, including cancer, across all age groups.
CMRI expands gene therapy research partnership with LogicBio Therapeutics
CMRI is pleased to announce that its partnership with LogicBio Therapeutics to develop the next generation of viral vectors for gene therapy applications has been extended for another two years and two new target tissues.
Australia’s first gene therapy for genetic eye disease
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has registered a drug known as LUXTURNA® for the first gene therapy for inherited retinal diseases in Australia. One of our senior scientists, Professor Robyn Jamieson, has been involved in the process to get to this exciting stage.
CMRI – SCHN Formalise Agreement
Decades of past collaborations between CMRI and the SCHN have helped to bridge the gap between biomedical research and clinical application, and we continue to work closely across a number of research areas.