Two Peter Mac researchers have secured $3.5M+ in MRFF funding for projects to improve recovery after cancer surgery and to advance personalised care for a rare type of ovarian cancer.
Read more: www.petermac.org/about-us/new...
27.01.2026 05:40 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Peter Mac researcher Dr Clare Slaney has received national funding to develop a new type of cancer #immunotherapy that uses the body’s existing immunity to COVID-19 to help fight solid tumours.
Read more: www.petermac.org/about-us/new...
23.01.2026 02:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New research led by Prof @benjhogan.bsky.social has revealed a surprising evolutionary switch in the brain’s immune system - uncovering how specialised immune cells at the borders of the brain evolved, and why they behave so differently in humans.
More: www.petermac.org/about-us/new...
22.01.2026 04:39 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Peter Mac has been awarded $7.5M+ in @nhmrc.bsky.social Ideas Grant funding for five innovative projects tackling cancer metastasis, treatment resistance and immunotherapy.
An outstanding result in a highly competitive scheme!
Read more: www.petermac.org/about-us/new...
12.01.2026 05:36 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
A $5 million @nhmrc grant will help Peter Mac researchers tackle one of cancer’s toughest challenges: advanced, metastatic disease.
The project, led by @belindaparker.bsky.social, will focus on understanding how metastatic cancers evade the immune system.
More: www.petermac.org/about-us/new...
07.01.2026 23:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
World first: First patient scanned with the GE total body PET/CT technology
𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗰! We are beyond thrilled to announce that we have scanned the FIRST patient in the world with the groundbreaking GE Healthcare total body PET/CT tech, made possible through the support of the Australian Cancer Research Foundation.
17.12.2025 03:48 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Today @drmhofman.bsky.social has been awarded the Perpetual 2025 Ramaciotti Medal for Excellence — one of Australia’s highest honours in biomedical research.
Read more about his pioneering work: petermac.org/about-us/new...
10.12.2025 03:11 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We were excited to cut the ribbon and officially open the latest cutting-edge radiotherapy technology at our Moorabbin campus!
Huge thanks to our partner Monash Health and everyone who brings this world-leading care to life every day.
🔗 Read more: www.petermac.org/about-us/new...
03.12.2025 05:50 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🧠 New research shows the blood–brain barrier helps control #braintumour growth.
Led by Prof Louise Cheng, the study finds glial “gatekeeper” cells and a protein called Path influence how #cancer respond to low nutrients.
Read more: www.petermac.org/about-us/new...
24.11.2025 01:06 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
What a week for global cancer collaboration in Melbourne.
With leaders from 170+ countries at the @uiccofficial.bsky.social World Cancer Leaders’ Summit, Peter Mac experts drove key discussions & we hosted tours onsite — and met with @theaacr.bsky.social leaders to strengthen global partnerships.
21.11.2025 05:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New research led by Peter Mac’s Prof Michael Jefford highlights the urgent need to strengthen survivorship care across the Western Pacific.
It identifies major opportunities to better support 13M+ cancer survivors across the region.
Read more: petermac.org/about-us/new...
#cancersurvivorship
19.11.2025 03:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Huge thanks to Dr Elisabete Weiderpass, Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, for joining us today to share powerful insights on global cancer challenges.
Privilege to host this session with VCCC Alliance and Cancer Australia - thanks to all our wonderful speakers.
17.11.2025 05:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Australia’s first Centre of Research Excellence in #Lymphoedema and Lymphatic Regeneration has launched, led by Prof @benjhogan.bsky.social and Prof Natasha Harvey, it's been dubbed a global “paradigm shift” and a major step forward.
Read more: www.petermac.org/about-us/new...
17.11.2025 02:16 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
We’re proud to share that 62 Peter Mac researchers have been named among 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲, according to the Stanford University/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List 2025.
Read more: www.petermac.org/about-us/new...
10.11.2025 05:28 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to Prof Jayesh Desai and Prof Belinda Parker (@belindaparker.bsky.social), newly elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health & Medical Sciences. More: www.petermac.org/about-us/news-and-events/news/details/professors-jayesh-desai-and-belinda-parker-elected-as-fellows-of-aahms
29.10.2025 05:30 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Researcher Amelia Hyatt, from the Peter Mac Centre for Health Services Research in Cancer, led an international study that examines why some countries are on track to eliminate #cervicalcancer — & why many are not.
🔗https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00310-9/fulltext
23.10.2025 22:44 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Proud moment! Peter Mac is a finalist in two categories at the 2025 Victorian Public Healthcare Awards.
For our youth cancer transition program with @RCHMelbourne & partners.
And our volunteer archivists who brought 75 years of history to life.
More: www.petermac.org/about-us/new...
23.10.2025 03:42 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
𝗰𝘁𝗗𝗡𝗔 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.
New research led by Peter Mac’s Professor Jeanne Tie in @naturemedicine.bsky.social.
Read more: www.petermac.org/about-us/new...
22.10.2025 02:47 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Why does breastfeeding lower breast cancer risk?
A new Nature study led by Prof @loisher.bsky.social shows it creates long-lived CD8⁺ T cells in breast tissue – immune “guards” that help stop cancers forming, including triple-negative.
🔗 www.petermac.org/about-us/new...
20.10.2025 22:59 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Peter Mac’s Dr Wanda Cui has been awarded an MRFF grant to lead the first study tracking how immunotherapy + chemo may affect #fertility, #ovarian health & early menopause in young women with triple-negative #breastcancer.
🔗 www.petermac.org/about-us/new...
01.10.2025 05:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us at the Peter Mac Breast Cancer Medical Oncology Education Day for updates from #StGallen, #ASCO & #ESMO2025, featuring international keynote Prof @hoperugo.bsky.social, parallel nursing & multidisciplinary sessions, plus leading experts and networking.
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-peter...
24.09.2025 02:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our experts, below, delivered key lectures across the program.
A/Prof David Liu: “This meeting shows the world the incredible contributions Peter Mac is making to fight cancers of the oesophagus & stomach.”
#CancerResearch #UpperG
23.09.2025 02:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last week, Peter Mac experts joined world leaders in surgery, oncology & allied health at the Australian & Aotearoa New Zealand Gastric & Oesophageal Surgery Association
Annual Scientific Congress in Brisbane — sharing the latest in treating oesophageal & stomach cancers.
#UpperGI #CancerResearch
23.09.2025 02:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yesterday we celebrated an incredible 4,145 years of service at Peter Mac!
We all came together for a special high tea at the Windsor Hotel to honour our recipients, with special mention of Cathy Webb (45 years), Rosanna Piccolo (40 years), and Jim Hagekyriakou (35 years).
19.09.2025 02:32 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Proud moment: Peter Mac has been designated an @iaeaorg.bsky.social “Rays of Hope” Anchor Centre. Over next 4 years we'll host workshops, training & observerships aiming to strengthen the #radiationmedicine workforce across the Asia–Pacific.
More: www.petermac.org/about-us/new...
17.09.2025 03:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us at Peter Mac for a 2-day deep dive into CAR T-cell Therapy: protocols, side effect management & multidisciplinary care.
Clinicians, nurses, pharmacists, AHPs — don't miss out!
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/car-t-syne...
16.09.2025 02:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Peter Mac has been rated the 14th best cancer hospital in the world in Newsweek’s 'World’s Best Specialized Hospitals 2026' rankings. Peter Mac was the only Australian hospital to rank in the world’s top 100 for oncology. Read more here - t.co/1uH5alMo0G
11.09.2025 06:46 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
@cccolab.bsky.social is helping Peter Mac's Professor Mark Dawson lead research to dramatically reduce the time children spend in isolation after a life-saving stem cell transplant thanks to a gene that acts like a turbo switch for the body’s infection-fighting cells. Read more - bit.ly/482DiRs
05.09.2025 07:15 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A world-first clinical trial at Peter Mac has found that a simple nasal spray can significantly reduce the risk of COVID-19 in cancer patients. Research published today showed the spray reduced the risk of COVID-19 infection by 40%. Read more here - bit.ly/3JBAjW8
29.08.2025 03:09 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We’re uniting Australia's leading researchers, clinicians and healthcare professionals to fast-track groundbreaking discoveries from the lab to the clinic. Our efforts aim to benefit our youngest cancer patients and their families in Australia and beyond.
We explore how cells stick together and fall apart..focussing on how cell-cell adhesion, apoptotic extrusion and tissue mechanics regulate epithelial homeostasis 🧫🔬
@AlphaYap’s lab at IMB, Brisbane
We aim to understand how genes, molecules, cells, and neural circuits interact to give rise to brain development and behavior, and to apply this knowledge to advance treatments for brain disorders.
https://medicine.yale.edu/kavli/
Using genome engineering to solve humanity’s greatest problems in health, climate & sustainable agriculture. UC Berkeley, UCSF, UC Davis. https://innovativegenomics.org/
Leading-edge research in all-things 'omics, including #microbiomes, #neurogenomics, #genomics, #fungi, #parasites, #cancer, and more. Visit us: igs.umaryland.edu & our sister site Maryland Genomics: marylandgenomics.org for #sequencing & #bioinformatics.
Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute (formerly the CRUK Beatson Institute). Our Mission: Cancer discovery for patient benefit.
www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk
CBS : A research lab in structural biology, biophysics and synthetic biology.
CNRS, INSERM, Université de Montpellier
Located in Montpellier, France.
www.cbs.cnrs.fr
We are a world leader in genomics research. We apply and explore genomic technologies to advance the understanding of biology and improve health 🧬
https://www.sanger.ac.uk/
A multidisciplinary community of researchers with the mission to better understand the roots of disease and narrow the gap between new biological insights and impact for patients. Broadinstitute.org
This is the Tübingen research campus of the Max Planck Society in Germany. We do basic research in fields of biology, neuroscience, and AI.
For Institute specific updates follow:
@mpicybernetics.bsky.social
@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
An interdisciplinary research institution that conducts basic research in two key areas of modern biology: Immunobiology & Epigenetics in #Freiburg, Germany
https://www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de
The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. We want to understand how the genome works and how it is regulated, especially during embryonic development & disease. Imprint: https://www.molgen.mpg.de/impressum
How do cells form tissues? Our research program spans the scales from molecules to organisms. News from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden, Germany. Impressum: https://www.mpi-cbg.de/impressum
GMI is the only international center for basic plant research in Austria. Research covers many aspects of molecular and evolutionary genetics.
IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology: a leading research institute in Europe, focusing on functional genetics, RNA biology, and stem cell research.
Scripps Research is one of the world's largest, private, non-profit biomedical research organizations. We are Science Changing Life.
The next-generation life sciences institute advancing human health through basic research and collaboration. Based in Palazzo Italia, Milan.
EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) provides open biological data resources and tools, and performs basic research in computational biology. https://www.ebi.ac.uk/
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory drives visionary basic research and technology development in the life sciences. www.embl.org
