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Cryo-electron microscopist @ WEHI
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Researchers from WEHI’s Parkinson Disease Research Centre have won the 2025 UNSW Eureka Prize for Scientific Research. The team has been honoured for their research unravelling how PINK1, a key protein linked to early-onset Parkinson’s disease, works.

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📸 L–R: Professor David Komander, Dr Nicholas Kirk, Dr Sylvie Callegari and Dr Alisa Glukhova. 
September 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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🏆 PINK1 Parkinson's Disease Research Team @wehi-research.bsky.social‬ is awarded the @unsw.edu.au Eureka Prize for Scientific Research. #EurekaPrizes

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September 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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World-first: researchers have discovered what protein #PINK1 looks like in humans and how it is activated, solving a decades-long mystery in the fight against #Parkinsonsdisease. The team hope to use the knowledge to find a drug to stop #Parkinsons.

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Scientists solve decades-long Parkinson’s mystery
WEHI researchers have made a huge leap forward in the fight against Parkinson’s disease, solving a decades-long mystery that paves the way for development of new drugs to treat the condition.
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March 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM