News & Updates

Catch up on the latest news and research from the Cellular Reprogramming Unit.

Research featured on news

Dr Raymond Wong was interviewed by the AZO Life Sciences News. 'Switching on' sight using gene therapy Read the article here.

Research featured on news

Dr Raymond Wong's research is featured on Channel 7 news. The article is also covered on >60 news websites including The West Australia...

Funding boost for gene therapy research to stimulate retina regeneration

Dr Raymond Wong was awarded funding support from the National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia to develop a gene therapy to stimulate...

New preprint: Novel method to generate neurons using biomaterial and CRISPRa

TAK1 blockade as a therapy for retinal neovascularization Fan-Li Lin, Jiang-Hui Wang, Jinying Chen, Linxin Zhu, Yu-Fan Chuang, Leilei Tu,...

Research featured on news

Dr Raymond Wong's research is featured on Mirage news. Switching on sight Read the article here.

New publication: New Eye Gene Atlas to map disease genes involved in eye disorders

In collaboration with researchers at A*Star (Singapore), the team has reported a detailed Eye Gene Atlas for human, porcine and...

New Member joining the lab

We welcome Khandhan Nadarajan who's joining our lab as a Masters student at University of Melbourne. Khandhan will study cell...

Expert opinion on news

Dr Raymond Wong provided expert opinion for a CNET news article on an optogenetic gene therapy study. Scientists partially restore blind...

New Member joining the lab

We welcome Zahra Keykhosravi who's joining our lab as a Masters student at University of Melbourne. Zahra will focuses on in silico...

Funding boost for gene therapy research for inherited retinal diseases

Dr Raymond Wong was awarded the CERA Innovation Fund to investigate the use of CRISPR technology to rescue inherited retinal diseases....

New preprint: Novel method to generate neurons using biomaterial and CRISPRa

Combinatorial application of binary colloidal crystals biomaterial and CRISPR activation system to direct pluripotent stem cell...

New preprint: Rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 using LAMP

Comparative analysis of loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP)-based assays for rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 Daniel...

2020 Lab X'mas lunch

I'm so proud of everyone for being so resilience during this tough year, well done guys! Let's hope 2021 will be a better year and...

New publication: New technologies to study AMD

New technologies to study functional genomics of age-related macular degeneration Tu Nguyen, Daniel Urrutia-Cabrera, Roxanne Hsiang-Chi...

Congratulations to Santiago, Sean and Aleja for finishing their Masters!

Big congratulations to Santiago, Sean and Aleja for completion of their Masters studies! We will miss you all and all the best for your...