May 2019
CACPI host workshop with Chinese PhD students and Post-doctoral fellows to discuss their research program at Renji hospital in Shanghai Read more about CACPI host workshop with Chinese PhD students and Post-doctoral fellows to discuss their research program at Renji hospital in Shanghai
May 2019
CACPI member attend Australia Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai event to celebrate Festival of Australia
Carola Vinuesa, Sophie Shen and Ed Bertram in Shanghai Read more about CACPI member attend Australia Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai event to celebrate Festival of Australia
December 2018
CACPI Team at Shanghai Renji hospital hosted students studying ACT Australian Senior Secondary Certificate in China for entry to ANU
Dr Ed Bertram welcomed the school group in his first public speech in Chinese and the introduced Professor Carola Vinuesa who gave a background on the research Centre, the science and its activities. The CACPI staff then gave a tour of the laboratory and core facilities. Several students were extremely interested in the work of the Centre and expressed interest in studying human biology. Read more about CACPI Team at Shanghai Renji hospital hosted students studying ACT Australian Senior Secondary Certificate in China for entry to ANU
November 2018
CACPI members visited ANU lab and attend NHMRC Program Retreat in Australia
Dr Yuke He and Ms Chengmei Xie from CACPI Renji laboratory visited Carola’s group at ANU to discuss their work and then attended a NHMRC Program grant retreat in Victoria with Vinuesa and Cook group (and WEHI scientists). Read more about CACPI members visited ANU lab and attend NHMRC Program Retreat in Australia
August 2018
ANU Global Partnership Scheme awarded to CACPI
The ANU Global Research Partnerships Scheme provides strategic investment to seed and match funding for significant global partnerships and collaboration that will build scale and excellence consistent with our commitment to research. Fourteen highly competitive applications were received in the 2018 round and the CACPI application was ranked as number one. Read more about ANU Global Partnership Scheme awarded to CACPI
August 2018
Chinese National Science Foundation Grants Awarded to CACPI members
CACPI team have recently been awarded two new grants by the Chinese National Science Foundation. “Rare variants in the ROQUIN gene family in rare immune and inflammatory and autoimmune diseases” led by Carola Vinuesa and Vicki Athanasopoulos was awarded a four years grant.
Yuke He has also been awarded the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China for her project “Investigation of possible damaging variants on NK cell function in SLE”. Yuke was a three year grant. Read more about Chinese National Science Foundation Grants Awarded to CACPI members
March 2018
Carola Vinuesa awarded Advisory Professorship at Jiao Tong University
In March 2018 Carola Vinuesa was awarded an Advisory Professorship at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) for five years. The aim the professorship is to promote the university's internationalisation strategy and encourage the teaching, research, discipline construction, academic exchanges and international cooperation of our university.
Carola Vinuesa has been awarded the advisory professorship by SJTU, in acknowledgement of her significant academic achievement and role in international collaboration at the university. Read more about Carola Vinuesa awarded Advisory Professorship at Jiao Tong University
December 2017
CACPI attend Cold Spring Harbour Conference at Suzhou
Yuke He (Postdoctoral fellow), Chengmei Xie (Technician) and Carola attended the Cold Spring Harbour Asia. Inflammation: Basic Mechansims & Relevant Diseases at Suzhou, where Carola was invited to deliver a plenary speech ‘Control of human germinal center responses by follicular helper and regulatory T cells. Read more about CACPI attend Cold Spring Harbour Conference at Suzhou
October 2017
ANU VC Brian Schmidt visits China-Australia Centre for Personalised Immunology
Vice Chancellor Brian Schmidt and his delegation including Shirley Leitch (PVC), Rae Frances (CASS) and Amanda Barry was hosted by the Vice-President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University at Minhang campus. Following broad discussions on possible ways ANU and SJTU could collaborate, Carola gave a presentation to the ANU and SJTU delegates on CACPI, presenting the staff (Renji and ANU), collaborators patients cohorts, projects, funding obtained and publications already in place. The ANU VC and SJTU Vice-President expressed their congratulations at the progress of establishing this Centre.
Following the meeting, ANU VC Brian Schmidt visited the CACPI laboratory and met staff. In the evening, the ANU held an Alumni event in Xintandi that was well attended by over 100 people. During his speech the VC highlighted CACPI as the shining example of a real joint Australia-China research centre. Read more about ANU VC Brian Schmidt visits China-Australia Centre for Personalised Immunology
July 2017
CACPI visit Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University to discuss Immunodeficiency patients
Professor Matthew Cook, Professor Carola Vinuesa and Dr Di Yu visited Vice-President and Professor Xiaodong Zhao to discuss collaboration for identifying the genetic cause of immunodeficiency Read more about CACPI visit Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University to discuss Immunodeficiency patients
