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Nhung Nghiem and Mark Polizzotto are seated in an office and talking to each other..

ANU researcher wins NHMRC award for global cancer trial

Professor Mark Polizzotto has won an NHMRC award for his global study testing whether a daily tablet could replace chemotherapy for a cancer that kills up to half its patients in Africa.

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Speaker at three minute thesis
Wednesday, 23 Jul 2025
  • News

What if you only had three minutes to explain your life’s work to an audience? That’s the challenge ANU PhD scholars took on at the Three Minute Thesis final.

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Woman in a lab
Friday, 18 Jul 2025
  • News

New research that used our world-leading geochronology facility at ANU, shows how communities that lived in western Iran about 11,000 years ago gave gifts from their travels in cultural practices similar to today.

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Scientists in a lab
Friday, 18 Jul 2025
  • News

A new material platform has enabled scientists to create photon pairs whose entanglement can be tuned, from a layer thinner than a human hair.

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Nhung Nghiem and Mark Polizzotto are seated in an office and talking to each other..
Thursday, 17 Jul 2025
  • Research story

ANU researchers and global partners are launching a clinical trial to improve treatment for Kaposi sarcoma, one of the most common and deadly cancers in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Lab
Tuesday, 15 Jul 2025
  • News

17 ANU researchers are among a cohort of exceptional Australian scientists to receive funding under a series of recent Australian Research Council (ARC) funding rounds.

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Dr Martyna Judd in the chemistry foyer.
Monday, 14 Jul 2025
  • Research story

Just like how GPS triangulates your location using satellites, scientists can now place labels at different positions around the surface of a protein to visualise drug-binding interactions more clearly.

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32 teeth
Wednesday, 09 Jul 2025
  • Analysis and opinion

New research shows that teeth contain a week-by-week climatic history of their owner’s childhood.

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Two photos. The left photo is of Professor Naomi McClure-Griffith in front of outdoor astronomy facilities. The second photo is of Li Yusen holding a camera outside near the ocean.
Tuesday, 08 Jul 2025
  • News

The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) honoured six astronomers at its Annual Scientific Meeting in Adelaide this week, including two ANU scientists.

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Two men  outdoors
Tuesday, 01 Jul 2025
  • News

In this collaborative project, researchers are working to develop future satellites for fire management by using traditional Indigenous knowledge and collaborating on remote sensing technology to help manage wildfires.

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