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Prof Gordon Parker AO Talks FMT, (poo transplants) and Bipolar disease- an SSMRF event
Poo Transplants for Bipolar Disease? - SSMRF Annual Presentation Dinner with Prof Gordon Parker AO, Friday 4 April 2025, 6:30 pm, Southern Sydney Event Centre Join St George & Sutherland Medical Research Foundation on 4 April 2025 at our Annual Dinner...
New Article: The gut–brain axis underlying hepatic encephalopathy in liver cirrhosis
Nature Medicine: 8 January 2025Xiaolong He, Mengyao Hu, Yi Xu, Fangbo Xia, Yang Tan, Yuqing Wang, Huiling Xiang, Hao Wu, Tengfei Ji, Qian Xu, Lei Wang, Zhenhe Huang, Meiling Sun, Yu Wan, Peng Cui, Shaocong Liang, Yuan Pan, Siyu Xiao, Yan He, Ruixin Song, Junqing Yan,...
What is Faecal Microbiota Transplantation?
Faecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) is an emerging therapy for a number of diseases. But what exactly is an FMT? What is a Faecal Microbiome transplant (FMT) A faecal microbiota transplantation is the placement of donor stool into the bowel of a person who is...
Early Career Grant success to develop Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) for dementia and obesity
Dr Xiaotao Jiang, Lecturer at the UNSW Sydney Microbiome Research Centre has been awarded funding from NSW Health to develop a "super donor selection" platform for the treatment of obesity and dementia using Faecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT).Obesity and dementia...
Microbiome Research Centre opens at Kogarah
The Microbiome Research Centre (MRC) at Kogarah was officially opened on August 9 – a project three years in the making.Extracted from article published in the St George and Sutherland Shire Leader The Microbiome Research Centre (MRC) at Kogarah was officially...
SSMRF MRC Grant Program awarded $1 million seed funding to six research teams at St George Hospital
$1M research boost at St George and Sutherland hospitals Dr Amanda Henry and her team were all smiles after benefiting from a record $1 million of research grants at St George and Sutherland hospitals. The St George and Sutherland Medical Research Foundation (SSMRF)...
$4.4 million for new Microbiome Research Centre at St George and Sutherland Hospitals to study bugs causing diseases in the gut
Australia’s first medical research centre dedicated to studying bugs in the gut will be established at St George and Sutherland Hospitals. Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt announced funding of $4.4 million to the St George and Sutherland Medical Research Foundation...