Academy Fellow Professor Sharad Kumar in involved with human trials using a leukaemia virus to fight advanced skin cancer that are on track to start in Adelaide later this year.
In a national first, researchers at the Royal Adelaide Hospital's Centre for Cancer Biology intend to tweak the body's own defensive cells to target cancer by genetically engineering them into search and destroy killers who hunt down tumour cells.
The Academy’s National Committee for Ecology is pleased to be involved in a new initiative to develop a cohesive, long-term plan for the future of Australian ecosystem science.
This new initiative presents a unique opportunity for the Australian ecosystem science community to clearly articulate their collective long-term priorities and needs, in order to achieve continuity in efforts and progress into the future with a shared purpose and vision.
The Academy congratulates six Fellows who have won 2013 Eureka Prizes. Professor Frank Caruso was awarded the CSIRO Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science.
Professor Scott O’Neill, Professor Ary Hoffman and Professor Brian Kay were part of a team that was awarded the Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases Research.
Professor James McCluskey was part of the team that won the Eureka Prize for Scientific Research, and Professor Rick Shine won the Sydney Eureka Prize for Outstanding Mentor of Young Researchers.
The Academy congratulates Professor Graeme Clark who has won a Lasker Award for Clinical and Medical Research.
The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation awards are nicknamed the “American Nobels".
The President and Secretary General of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences, Professor Sangkot Marzuki and Dr Budhi Suyitno, met with the CEO of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Professor Warwick Anderson and Academy President, Professor Suzanne Cory AC PresAA FRS in Canberra today.
During the meeting they discussed matters relating to medical and health sciences, and also potential collaboration between Australia and Indonesia.
The Australian Academy of Science has joined 105 other science academies around the world to offer scientific support for the global development agenda of the United Nations’ High Level Panel of Eminent Persons.
The nation's top scientists and researchers have issued a call to policy makers for a strategic and stable plan for science and research that will stop us falling behind in our region and in the world.
In July this year, Australia's research and science community formed the National Research Alliance, a broad-based grouping of scientific, research, university and public and private sector researchers, who came together to call for a strategic national research policy to build a stronger, smarter Australia.
Malaria researcher Professor Alan Cowman from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute has been awarded the 2013 Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the quest to eradicate malaria.
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