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Monash BDI’s Dr Sue Nang

Monash BDI researcher, Dr Sue Nang, receives NHMRC Research Excellence Award

Dr Sue Nang from Monash University’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) has received the 2025 Frank Fenner Investigator Grant Award for her research into how to manage antimicrobial resistance with bacteriophages (phages).
8 May, 2026 Biomedicine Discovery Institute
Michael Leung and Henry Cristillo

Using escape rooms to promote student engagement

A group of Monash University researchers have come up with a novel – and highly successful – way to get tertiary students to engage with both the course content and their peers, revealing that using an escape room scenario led to
21 April, 2026 Biomedicine Discovery Institute

Monash research drives launch of new biotech targeting genetic kidney disease

Monash University researchers are advancing a new therapeutic approach for Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) through biotechnology company xCystence Bio, supported by a syndicated pre-seed investment.
30 March, 2026 Biomedicine Discovery Institute
Heidi, Research Compliance Officer (blue gloves) at the mitoHOPE Program, and Tegan, mitoHOPE’s clinical embryologist, at work in the mitoHOPE laboratory at Monash University.

The mitoHOPE Program begins pre-clinical research in mitochondrial donation

The mitoHOPE Program recently commenced Maternal Spindle Transfer (MST) at its Monash University laboratory using donated eggs.
11 March, 2026 Biomedicine Discovery Institute
A/Prof Adam Rose and Dr Patricia Rusu

New study reveals how low‑protein diets enhance exercise ability through a surprising energy trade-off

Researchers from Monash University have uncovered how long‑term dietary protein restriction can surprisingly improve weight‑bearing exercise ability - by reshaping how the body budgets energy and activating brown fat thermogenesis.
10 March, 2026 Biomedicine Discovery Institute
Professor Martin Stone and Dr Ram Bhusal, co-lead authors on the study published in Structure

How the canny tick could help prevent disease like MS and cancer

When the immune system detects a harmful or foreign agent it triggers an inflammatory response: small proteins called chemokines direct immune cells to the site of the injury or infection, resulting in the invader being inactivated.
9 March, 2026 Biomedicine Discovery Institute

How CO2-sensing neurons in a worm could eventually protect humans from metabolic stress

All animals, including humans, experience stress. Not the type where you worry about paying bills, but metabolic stress – triggered by starvation, obesity or bacterial infections.
6 March, 2026 Biomedicine Discovery Institute
L-R: Shama Kazmi, MIME MCAP Project Manager, Dr Simon Royce, Dr Paris Papagianis, Professor Jane Bourke and Dr Andrew Carey, MIME Program Manager.

From lab to worksite: how MCAP is accelerating a breakthrough breath test for silicosis

A simple breath test could soon transform how one of Australia’s most devastating occupational lung diseases is detected.
6 March, 2026 Biomedicine Discovery Institute

The trailblazing women working to cure a male disease

At our Prostate Cancer Research Group (PCRG), it’s possible to glimpse a world where gender is no barrier to a successful career in STEM. Here, the women are in charge, even while researching better treatments for a male disease.
6 March, 2026 Biomedicine Discovery Institute