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Uni SA Cancer Research Institute

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8302 2648

Address: Cancer Research Institute, HB Building, North Terrace 5000 Adelaide, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.unisa.edu.au/research/cri

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24.01.2022 Research published by University of South Australia Professor Elina Hyppönen and team in the CRI's Australian Centre for Precision Health, using data from over 300,000 participants in the UK Biobank, examined connections between genetically instrumented habitual coffee consumption and a full range of diseases. The study found that too much coffee can increase the risk of osteoarthritis, arthropathy (joint disease) and obesity. https://www.unisa.edu.au//excess-coffee-consumption-a-cul/

23.01.2022 University of South Australia researcher Dr Ming Li has shown increased physical activity is inversely associated with age-related cataract risk dose-responsively https://www.unisa.edu.au//shining-a-light-on-how-exercise/

18.01.2022 University of South Australia Prof Marion Eckert was one of six South Australian nurses profiled in the Sunday Mail yesterday, honouring the state's 'unsung her...oes' for their selfless work during the COVID-19 pandemic. The feature - published in the Year of the Nurse and Midwife - includes an apt quote from the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale: The greatest heroes are those who do their duties in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls.

16.01.2022 US FDA approval to Professor Sanjay Garg, Director: Centre for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics in the CRI, for the first and only non-hormonal contraceptive. The UniSA led research to develop the gel will be brought to market in the United States by Evofem Biosciences, as Phexxi, a nonhormonal, on-demand, vaginal pH regulator contraceptive. https://www.unisa.edu.au//new-contraceptive-gel---from-be/

16.01.2022 Work has started on a $49m proton therapy unit due to open in Adelaide in 2023 - the 1st in the southern hemisphere. University of South Australia Prof Eva Bezak explains how proton therapy will revolutionise cancer treatment and put Adelaide on the international map. https://www.youtube.com/watch

16.01.2022 Dr Hayley Schulz from the CRI’s Centre for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics, University of South Australia, has developed a new formulation of a prostate cancer drug (abiraterone acetate currently marketed as Zytiga). Pre-clinical trials show the new formulation improves the drug’s effectiveness by 40 per cent. https://www.unisa.edu.au//breakthrough-discovery-to-trans/

16.01.2022 Great support for Kate Gunn and this research partnership at University of South Australia, changing lives for the better https://www.unisa.edu.au//masonic-charities-funding-boost/

12.01.2022 Research by Shayne Chau in the CRI’s Centre for Translational Cancer Research, University of South Australia, reviewed 14 studies comparing whole body CT (WBCT) outcomes with conventional radiological procedures, or non-WBCT, in trauma patients. While mortality rates, intensive care unit and hospital length stays were similar, time spent in emergency departments was significantly reduced. https://www.unisa.edu.au//whole-body-scans-for-trauma-pat/

09.01.2022 University of South Australia researcher Dr Emmanuel Gnanamanickam in the CRI’s Australian Centre for Precision Health has published a world-first study examining the impact of child abuse and neglect from data covering 608,540 South Australian born children. The study shows that by their mid-teens, children who were the subject of child protective services contact, are up to 52 per cent more likely to be hospitalised, for a range of problems. https://www.unisa.edu.au//new-research-shows-child-abuse-/

07.01.2022 University of South Australia CRI researcher Prof Eva Bezak and her team featured on ABCs 7.30 Report discussing the funding crisis facing universities