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The laboratory of La Trobe University scientist Associate Professor John Silke has contributed to an important international discovery which could play a critical role in the treatment of cancers and autoimmune diseases. The discovery was made during a joint project led by Cancer Research UK funded scientists based at Imperial College London and Dr Andrew […]
June 8, 2011
La Trobe launches next generation teaching and research facilities Top laboratories in North America and Europe and gigantic synchrotrons in Australia or overseas are now within reach of La Trobe science students and research scientists. This remote access is possible thanks to a futuristic computerised ‘Visualisation Laboratory’ opened on the Melbourne Campus earlier this year. […]
June 8, 2011
Nick Hoogenraad, Executive Director of the University’s new La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, has joined a select group of top researchers whose life stories have been filmed and recorded by the Australian Academy of Science. In its ‘Interviews with Australian Scientists’ series, Professor Hoogenraad discusses his work, probing ways in which mitochondria – highly […]
June 8, 2011
Additional Federal Government funding will make a real difference to the quality of regional higher education in central and northern Victoria. Welcoming the recent budget decision to double regional load funding for universities – a move that increases La Trobe’s share from $1.07m to more than $3.7m – Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Johnson, strongly praised the […]
June 8, 2011
La Trobe University has taken a big step towards reducing its environmental footprint, cutting energy use in campus buildings by 11 per cent. The University has also helped reduce single car occupancy rates by staff and students travelling to and from its Melbourne campus by five per cent. And less waste is being sent to […]
June 8, 2011
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