Topics: Ageing

About the talk: The human genome contains many types of repetitive material including short tandem repeats. Expansions of short tandem repeats can cause rare diseases including Friedreich’s ataxia and Huntington’s disease but are also responsible for GWAS hits such as the C9orf72 repeat expansion in motor neuron disease. In recent years several methods have been developed ...

Ageing represents one of the greatest medical, social and economic challenges – in Australia and globally.

Ever wondered what it’s like to be a scientist?

We invite you to join the Centenary Institute’s free interactive online event to hear from Associate Professor Andy Philp and Professor Sue Kurrle AO as they share their expert knowledge on the impact of not being able to include exercise in your life.

The Centenary Institute has hosted its inaugural Healthy Ageing Colloquium with invited speakers discussing their research specialities and contributions to combatting diseases in an ageing population.

As we age our cells also age. They lose their normal functions and become resistant to cell death.

The Centenary Institute’s Professor Jennifer Gamble has been awarded a Senior Researcher Grant under the NSW Cardiovascular Research Capacity Program receiving a total of $750,000 over three years. The grant will fund Professor Gamble’s research into vascular (blood vessel) health to aid healthy ageing and to help prevent disease.