Treatment type: Precision medicine

Congratulations to Dr Daniel Gough for receiving a Mid-Career Research Fellowship from the Victorian Cancer Agency (VCA) for his research in developing new therapies for small cell lung cancer (SCLC).…  Read more

Improved treatments for a range of cancers could be possible following a discovery that stomach cancer is mainly driven by a different process than previously believed.…  Read more

Hudson Institute researchers have been awarded a $140,000 Vanguard Grant to improve the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) outcomes of newborn babies. …  Read more

The impact of a serious pregnancy condition that affects millions of unborn babies globally could be minimised by improved imaging techniques.…  Read more

Professor Caroline Gargett and collaborators at the University of Queensland and Monash IVF have been awarded a three-year US$2.07 million (AU$3.05 million) grant to determine the cause of endometriosis and the physiological processes associated with the disease.…  Read more

A world-first clinical trial will see women with fetal growth restriction receive daily doses of melatonin to prevent poor neurological outcomes in babies.…  Read more

A new study has uncovered a link between being transgender and changes in genes that process the sex hormones estrogen and androgen, revealing a possible biological basis for gender dysphoria.…  Read more

A collection of data extracted from more than 1000 paediatric brain tumour samples will improve Hudson Institute scientists’ ability to tackle childhood brain cancer through targeted therapies. The new Paediatric Brain Tumour Atlas (PBTA), launched by the US-based Children’s Brain Tumour Tissue Consortium (CBTTC) on Monday, includes data collected from 30 unique childhood brain tumour…  Read more

Women with healthy, low-risk pregnancies who had a homebirth had comparable rates of stillbirth to those who had a hospital birth.…  Read more

A new study has identified a genetic mutation that could be linked to an aggressive type of ovarian cancer driven by hormones. A team of scientists at Hudson Institute of Medical Research, with collaborators at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the University of Western Australia, used large-scale genome sequencing to map the tumour genome…  Read more