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News & Updates
Catch up on the latest news and research from the Cellular Reprogramming Unit.
Last updated 09-Jul-2025


Research featured on news: Tackling glaucoma from all directions
A/Prof Wong's collaborative research with CERA researchers to understand how scarring forms in glaucoma surgery patients was featured in...
Mar 1, 2023


Funding boost for international collaboration between Japan and Australia
A/Prof Raymond Wong was jointly awarded the JSPS-University of Melbourne Open Partnership Joint Research Projects grant to strengthen a...
Feb 9, 2023


New publication: Using nicotinamide to treat glaucoma
In collaboration with scientists Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), the team has showed that human retinal ganglion cells can directly...
Jan 23, 2023


Research featured in online video
A/Prof Wong's research was featured in online video 'CERA's cellular reprogramming research' from the Centre for Eye Research Australia....
Jan 2, 2023


Boost for international collaboration between Japan and Australia
A/Prof Raymond Wong was jointly awarded the RIKEN-University of Melbourne collaborative project grant to initiate a collaborative stem...
Nov 15, 2022


New Member joining the lab
We welcome Shannon Mendez Ruiz who's joining our lab as a Research Assistant. Shannon will help advance our research on using stem cells...
Oct 10, 2022


New publication: Study of genes contributing to diabetic retinopathy
In collaboration with CERA scientists, the team has performed in silico study of transcriptome datasets to study genes contributing to...
Aug 25, 2022


Funding boost for gene therapy to promote retinal regeneration
Associate Professor Raymond Wong was awarded funding support from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) CUREator grant to develop...
Aug 2, 2022


New preprint: Using CRISPR to study genes contributing to age-related macular degeneration
Knockout of AMD-associated gene POLDIP2 reduces mitochondrial superoxide in human retinal pigment epithelial cells Tu Nguyen, Daniel...
Aug 2, 2022


New publication: AAV Gene therapy for Bietti crystalline dystrophy
The team has tested the use of Adeno-associated viruses (AAV) as a gene therapy for Bietti crystalline dystrophy in cell models in the...
May 12, 2022


New publication: New therapeutics target for retinal angiogenesis
In collaboration with CERA scientists, the team has reported microRNA-143 as a potential therapeutic target to attenuate retinal...
Feb 7, 2022


New publication: Improved method to generate neurons using CRISPRa technology and novel biomaterial
In collaboration with scientists from the Chinese Academy of Science, the team has reported an improved method to generate neurons from...
Feb 7, 2022


New publication: Rapid testing of COVID19 using LAMP assay
The team has tested the use of LAMP assay for rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 - it's simple, cheap and highly sensitive, supporting the use...
Dec 7, 2021


New publication: Human platelet lysate regulates metabolism and functions of mesenchymal stem cells
In collaboration with researchers at Chinese Academy of Science, this study demonstrates the molecular mechanism of human platelet lysate...
Dec 7, 2021


New publication: Editorial on current advances in somatic cell gene editing for treating diseases
In collaboration with researchers at Yat-sen University (China), East China Normal University (China) and University of Porto (Portugal),...
Dec 7, 2021
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