News & Updates

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

Last updated 12-Dec-2025

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

May 31, 2021

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

Apr 7, 2021

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

Jan 20, 2021

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

Dec 22, 2020

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

Dec 22, 2020

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...

Dec 18, 2020

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

Dec 7, 2020

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

Nov 27, 2020

Dr Raymond Wong has received philanthropic support from the Estate of Elizabeth "Betty" Mary Gibson and Vision Australia to support...

Nov 1, 2020

Dr Raymond Wong was awarded the Bonn International Fellowship to lead a collaborative stem cell research program with the University of...

Oct 1, 2020

Comparison of CRISPR/Cas Endonucleases for in vivo Retinal Gene Editing Fan Li, Kristof Wing, Jiang-Hui Wang, Chi D. Luu, James A....

Sep 10, 2020

Functional study of the AMD-associated gene TMEM97 in retinal pigmented epithelium using CRISPR interference Jiang-Hui Wang, Daniel...

Jul 11, 2020

Dr Raymond Wong and his colleagues were awarded the International cooperation add-on project grant from the Ministry of Science and...

Jul 10, 2020

Dr Raymond Wong and his colleagues were awarded the STINT initiation grant by the Sweden Foundation for International Cooperation in...

Jul 1, 2020

Neuronal Reprogramming for Tissue Repair and Neuroregeneration Roxanne Hsiang-Chi Liou, Thomas L. Edwards, Keith R. Martin and Raymond...

Jun 16, 2020