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Nicholas Kirk

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Cryo-electron microscopist @ WEHI

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WEHI (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)@wehi-research.bsky.social · last yr.

Researchers from WEHI’s Parkinson Disease Research Centre have won the 2025 UNSW Eureka Prize for Scientific Research. The team has been honoured for their research unravelling how PINK1, a key protein linked to early-onset Parkinson’s disease, works. 🔗 www.wehi.edu.au/news/eureka-...

📸 L–R: Professor David Komander, Dr Nicholas Kirk, Dr Sylvie Callegari and Dr Alisa Glukhova.

Australian Museum Eureka Prizes @eurekaprizes.bsky.social · last yr.

🏆 PINK1 Parkinson's Disease Research Team @wehi-research.bsky.social‬ is awarded the @unsw.edu.au Eureka Prize for Scientific Research. #EurekaPrizes Learn more: youtu.be/senXARXzO20

WEHI (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)@wehi-research.bsky.social · last yr.

World-first: researchers have discovered what protein #PINK1 looks like in humans and how it is activated, solving a decades-long mystery in the fight against #Parkinsonsdisease. The team hope to use the knowledge to find a drug to stop #Parkinsons. www.wehi.edu.au/news/scienti...

Scientists solve decades-long Parkinson’s mystery

WEHI researchers have made a huge leap forward in the fight against Parkinson’s disease, solving a decades-long mystery that paves the way for development of new drugs to treat the condition.

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