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Another successful Open Day at Monash Clayton. Our tours of the AquaCore facility were booked out as we showcased the extraordinary infrastructure supporting our research into regenerative medicine. More opportunities to visit ARMI are planned for 2026 so stay tuned. armi.org.au/study-educat...

Four Monash University volunteers in white vests stand smiling in a laboratory beside an Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute banner.A group of Open Day visitors gathers around lab benches and microscope screens, while a staff member in an ARMI vest gestures toward the institute's banner in the foreground.

The Zebrafish is shaping the future of healthcare... It's open day at Monash Clayton on Sunday 2 August. Join a tour and step inside ARMI's AquaCore facility. Meet our scientists, investigate what regenerative medicine means and find out why the zebrafish is so important. armi.org.au/study-educat...

Several zebrafish with distinctive blue and silver stripes swimming in an aquarium. Zebrafish are widely used in regenerative medicine research.

Regenerative medicine is global. ARMI has researchers from 30+ countries and partnerships across Europe, Japan and the US. Our Strategy 2030 is about making that reach count: deeper networks, global advisory roles, and an international conference on home soil. More at armi.org.au/strategy-2030

A group of conference delegates stand together on stage in front of a large screen at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society for Cell Biology in Hefei, China. All are wearing conference lanyards for a group photograph. ARMI Strategy 2030 branding appears at the bottom of the image.

ARMI celebrates our researchers on World Embryologists Day, uncovering how life begins, cell by cell, to understand how the biological processes that create complex organisms can also drive healing and regeneration, unlocking new approaches to treating disease. armi.org.au

On World Brain Day we ask: How do you study this complex organ? At ARMI, the Saurat Group grows sophisticated “brains in a dish” from human stem cells, helping researchers investigate brain ageing, Alzheimer's disease and approaches to neural repair. Learn more about the group’s work: bit.ly/4b1j4bI

A deeply supportive work environment is standard at ARMI. Watching Accelerator Program recipients Dr Samuel Crossman (brain cancer targets) and Dr Yen-Zhen (Angel) Lu (neuro-immune repair in chronic wounds) shape their fields in real time is something special. Learn more armi.org.au/news-media/m...

Split image of two researchers in laboratory settings. On the left, a researcher in a red ARMI lab coat and blue gloves sits at a microscope. On the right, a researcher wearing a white lab coat smiles while standing in a laboratory with shelves of scientific equipment and sample containers in the background. A red banner across the bottom displays the ARMI logo and the text: "Congratulations Sam and Angel – ARMI Accelerator Grant recipients 2025."

Double success for the Zenker Group at the ASSCR Victoria EMCR Symposium! Hongbin Jin won Best EMCR Flash Talk and Oliver Anderson won Best EMCR Lightning Talk. Adam Rogerson also delivered an outstanding Lightning Talk.

ARMI’s Oliver Anderson (L) and Hongbin Jin show off their certificates after winning best EMCR talks at July 2026 ASSCR Vic EMCR Symposium

Big news from ARMI! Dr Nathalie Saurat & A/Prof Fabrice Jaffré have been awarded Pipeline Accelerator 2025-2026 (Round 2) vouchers to access the Victorian Centre for Functional Genomics, accelerating Alzheimer’s and heart disease therapeutics. Full story: armi.org.au/news-media/m...

Two people standing beside an Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) and Monash University banner in a bright research facility.

At our Strategy 2030 launch, Victoria's Lead Scientist said co-location shortens the distance from lab to patient. ARMI already has three spinout companies and one product in development. The co-location integral to ARMI's strategy will see us develop more of both: armi.org.au/strategy-2030

A speaker addresses an audience from a lectern in a sunlit event space, with ARMI banners visible during a Strategy 2030 presentation.

ARMI’s A/P Jenny Zenker is now an associate editor for the journal Cell Biology International. As the only Australian on the editorial team, Jenny’s progressive style and research kudos will boost the journal’s reputation in our region. Learn more about Jenny’s research: armi.org.au/our-groups/z...

Headshot of Associate Professor Jenny Zenker from ARMI, smiling against a grey background. She has short blonde hair and wears rectangular glasses, with a white patterned shirt featuring a red and blue floral design on one shoulder.

Too many promising regenerative medicine discoveries stall before reaching the people who need them. At our Strategy 2030 launch Sen. Dr Ananda-Rajah called it the ‘valley of death’. Our Clinical Translation strategic pillar details our plan to cross that valley. More at armi.org.au/strategy-2030

Three people stand smiling in a research facility lined with rows of aquatic tanks and equipment, photographed as part of ARMI’s Strategy 2030 campaign.

ARMI’s Strategy 2030 launched in April. Six pillars focused on three goals: a therapeutic into first-in-human trials, two major programmatic grants secured, and PhD enrolment growth to help close a sector-wide workforce gap. We’ll share more in coming weeks. armi.org.au/strategy-2030/

Audience members seated and standing in a bright event space listen to a speaker presenting at a lectern beside Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) banners during a Strategy 2030 event.

Full room at ARMI this week for A/Prof Emily Wong from @victorchang.edu.au. Topic: how ageing and exercise rewire gene regulation in the heart. We know exercise protects the ageing heart; Emily’s seminar covered what's happening at the genome level to make that true.

Associate Professor Emily Wong presenting at a lectern, with a screen behind her showing a slide titled "The ageing heart" comparing adult and aged heart anatomy, alongside notes on fibrosis and exercise as an intervention.

Modern biology generates more genetic data than anyone can manually sort. ARMI's new AI tool can sift through that data and identify which genes are driving a disease, which might flag it early, and which are relaying signals between the two. Read more bit.ly/4vOhQbE.

The AI tool that finds needles in biology's biggest haystacks - Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute

ARMI researchers have developed ExIR, an AI-powered tool that identifies disease drivers, biomarkers and mediators in complex biological datasets.

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ARMI’s @mveg001.bsky.social a.k.a Dr Maggie Evans-Galea and Associate Professor Jenny Zenker will speak tomorrow at SAGE’s Gender, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Symposium in Melbourne, about EDI challenges in medical research and how we can drive meaningful change. Register: bit.ly/4fL2Zdf.

Melbourne | EDI Enablers in MRIs | Governance, Resourcing, and Capability

Join us for an in-person event bringing the medical research institute community together to share what's working to advance DEI across the sector.

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Your liver and brain cells carry identical DNA. What makes them different is which genes are ​silent​​​​​. Researchers at ARMI and BDI have found how a protein complex adjusts the level of gene silencing so cells can maintain their identity. New paper in Molecular Cell. armi.org.au/news-media/m...

Fluorescence image of a mid-gestation mouse embryo. Bones in yellow, developing nerves in teal. Adjusting one protein complex shifted the body plan and produced extra ribs – without changing a single gene.Associate Professor Chen Davidovich, Samuel Agius and Professor Edwina McGlinn in a Monash University laboratory. The three researchers led the Molecular Cell study on epigenetic control of cell identity.

At Science Meets Parliament 2026, ARMI postdocs Liz Reisman and Benoit Haerlingen learnt how science can enter policy conversations. Their takeaway: evidence matters, but clarity, timing and relationships are just as important. Read the story on the ARMI website. armi.org.au/smp2026

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A pub, a projector, and a single cell 0.1mm across projected to fill a screen. A/Prof Jenny Zenker at @pintofscienceau.bsky.social Melbourne showed what the earliest moments of life look like and why that’s relevant to regenerative medicine. Thanks everyone for staying curious!

Associate Professor Jenny Zenker presenting to a full room at Munich Brauhaus, South Wharf, Melbourne. Behind her, a projected microscopy image of a single cell is labelled "ONE CELL" with a scale bar of 0.1mm and the Pint of Science Australia branding. The audience fills the foreground, seated at tables.Associate Professor Jenny Zenker pointing to a projected fluorescence microscopy image of an early-stage embryo at Pint of Science Melbourne. The slide labels the cytoskeleton as "Infrastructure" and identifies a highlighted region of membrane tracking. The Pint of Science logo is visible in the upper right corner.

ARMI's Peter Currie and Maggie Evans-Galea on Health Industry Hub podcast: Strategy 2030, bench-to-bedside realities, AI in research, and the science behind spinouts Mogrify and Myostellar. Subscription required; 14-day free trial available. Listen: bit.ly/4dy4qJn

Fluorescence microscopy image showing a zebrafish embryo brain viewed from above. Distinct cell populations are labelled in contrasting colours – red, orange, yellow-green, pink and blue – revealing the cellular architecture of developing brain regions against a black background.

Our deputy director strategy and planning, Maggie @mveg001.bsky.social, visited biotech company Cartherics this week to explore collaboration opportunities and discuss the challenges facing the regenerative medicine sector. It’s these conversations that are helping us advance our strategic plan.

Two people stand outside a building beneath a sign reading "CARTherics." Autumn leaves are visible on a tree to the left. The building exterior features a large mural in the background. The pair are smiling at the camera.Four researchers in full personal protective equipment — including hooded coveralls, face masks and gloves — work inside Cartherics' GMP manufacturing facility in Australia. The white, controlled-environment space contains stainless steel benches and pharmaceutical-grade equipment used in the production of off-the-shelf cell therapies ahead of first-in-human clinical trials.

Today ARMI launches Strategy 2030 – five years, six pillars, a clear path from discovery to the people who will benefit. Follow us to stay across the latest!

Fluorescent image of an early embryo. Blue cytoskeletal filaments form dense networks within each cell, highlighting internal structure.