Our #MetcalfPrize winner Maria Di Biase @unimelb.bsky.social is full of surprises. On ABC Melbourne Mornings with Raf Epstein
🎙️Raf: “What did you want to be when you were a kid?”
🎸Maria: “I wanted to be a rock star!”

Why she's a stem cell rock star: www.stemcellfoundation.net.au/maria_di_bia...

Hear from our 2025 #MetcalfPrizes winners – Dr Maria Di Biase and Dr Lachlan Harris – on ABC Radio Gold Coast Drive with Bern Young. Listen from 43.51 on yesterday’s show: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Meet the winners of our 2025 Metcalf Prizes for Stem Cell Research: stemcellfoundation.net.au/2025_metcalf...
🧠 Dr Maria Di Biase @unimelb.bsky.social
🧠 Dr Lachlan Harris @qimrb.bsky.social
They're already making headlines ahead of the award ceremony on the Gold Coast today. @asscr.bsky.social

Congratulations to Declan Turner from the Rhiannon Werder Lab reNEW Melbourne for winning #ARTxSCIENCE2025 with ‘A Deep Breath’: renew.science/artxscience/...
Rhiannon is one of our 2024 Metcalf Prize winners: www.stemcellfoundation.net.au/rhiannon_wer...
We're announcing 2025 winners next month.

The Foundation and Cerebral Palsy Alliance are backing Associate Professor Atul Malhotra on his mission to develop cellular therapy aimed at repairing brain injury associated with preterm births. Read about his clinical trial using umbilical cord blood: stemcellfoundation.net.au/atul_malhotr...

Applications for two $60,000 #MetcalfPrizes for Stem Cell Research Are now open.
Do you know a rising star of Australian stem cell science? Encourage them to apply.
Please share widely. #MetcalfPrizes
stemcellfoundation.net.au/metcalf_prizes

‘Developing an Innovative Model to Study Sense of Smell’ – US researchers at Tufts University discover stem cells thought to be dormant may offer clues to why sense of smell is lost or declines: solutions.tufts.edu/expertise/re...

What’s the potential for stem cells to repair the brain and reverse Parkinson’s disease? Ask The Florey's Prof Clare Parish if human stem cell transplantation can achieve this at our 5 June webinar (7:00pm AEST) hosted by @tanyaha.bsky.social
Register now 🧠👉 events.humanitix.com/stem-cells-a...

Could multiple sclerosis become a “disease without disability”? Hear about this and more… and put your own burning questions to neuroscientist Prof Kaylene Young @utas.edu.au at our 5 June webinar (7:00pm AEST) hosted by @tanyaha.bsky.social
Register 🧠👉 events.humanitix.com/stem-cells-a...

How do our brains deteriorate as we age, and what can we do about it? Ask Prof Carolyn Sue AM, renowned for her pioneering research on Parkinson's disease and mitochondrial disorders at our 5 June webinar (7:00pm AEST) hosted by @tanyaha.bsky.social
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'Gut stem cells get stressed out' – latest issue of Science Signalling includes an article on how ‘chronic stress impairs intestinal stem cell function through the parasympathetic nervous system’: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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‘New trial: IVF alternative uses stem cells to grow eggs externally’ – exclusive Herald Sun report on a study run by IVF Australia ‘using stem cells that mimic healthy female ovaries’: www.heraldsun.com.au/health/famil...

‘Miniature Hearts: Cardiac Organoids With an Immune System’ – Researchers in Germany develop a complex cardiac organoid model, with its own immune system, to study potential cardiotoxicity of new medications: www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/res...
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