The 2025 AusHealth CureCell Awards are now open to PhD students doing a cell or biological therapy related project.

Up to five awards of $10,000 are available, which are intended to help ease the cost-of-living pressures on research students.

Entrants are required to submit a one-page outline of their project. Applications need to be received by 31 July 2025; winners will be announced before 30 September 2025.

AusHealth’s collaboration with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) Research Partnership Australia is advancing the use of phage therapy to treat children with life-threatening genetic disorders.

AusHealth's Business Development Manager, Dr Tina Lavranos, knows the difference between 'pitch perfect' and 'pitch poor'.

On the latest Hamish & Andy podcast (23 April), Andy Lee revealed how he'd discovered a flask of suspicious powder behind the wall of his 1876 house in Melbourne.

He and colleague Hamish Blake wanted to know whether it was some kind of 19th-Century poison - or another illicit substance? They put the call out for a qualified person to provide answers and AusHealth's expert toxicologist Dr John Edwards stepped up.

AusHealth is one of the architects of a new cooperative research centre, designed to grow Australia’s biomanufacturing industry.

Antimicrobial resistance is predicted to cause 10 million deaths by 2050. Could phage therapy be the solution?