🌟 Congratulations to our HDR student Désirée Sexauer on this publication as first author, alongside co-authors from the Centre for Precision Health. In this comprehensive review, the team explores the emerging potential of blood-based biomarkers (liquid biopsies) for the early detection of brain metastases arising from solid cancers. Brain metastases are often diagnosed only after symptoms develop, limiting treatment options and impacting patient outcomes. The authors highlight the challenges that remain before these approaches can be translated into routine clinical practice, including the need for larger validation studies, standardised protocols and improved understanding of factors that influence biomarker performance. While unlikely to replace MRI, liquid biopsy biomarkers may provide complementary value through molecular characterisation, longitudinal monitoring and screening of patients at higher risk. #BrainMetastases #LiquidBiopsy #precisiononcology #HDR Elin Gray Helen Rizos Pauline Zaenker Aaron Beasley https://lnkd.in/gkUArEKt
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Optimising health and quality of life through cutting-edge research that delivers impactful precision health solutions
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Edith Cowan University’s Centre for Precision Health (CPH) is a biomedical-focused strategic research centre bringing together researchers with combined expertise in Genomics, Proteomics, and Neurophysiology, along with our researchers focused on mental health and translation in the clinic and community. Our researchers have been successful in: 1. Developing liquid biopsies for melanoma, lung cancer, and other cancers as well as new treatment targets; 2. Uncovering therapeutic targets and biomarkers that are important for understanding cancer metastases, tumour growth and patient response to therapies, and to inform personalised treatment decisions; 3. Developing innovative solutions focused on genomics and environmental factors to improve Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and other neurological conditions; 4. Non-invasively assessing motor unit firings in humans using high-density electromyography brain and nerve stimulation; 5. Developing interventions that promote mental health and quality of life, and how mental health may impact research outcomes in relation to health conditions and other contexts; 6. Co-designing community-driven programs with the neurological community, experts and industry partners to create practical solutions that make a real difference to everyday life. This is all undertaken in a supportive research environment with over 30 HDR students to ensure sustainable ongoing research excellence. The CPH has highly specialised equipment (including the new GeneTitan, Phenocyler-Fusion and CytoFlex SRT), that can be accessed to drive discovery, translation and innovation.
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📢 Early Bird Registration Extended! Great news — early bird registration for the Thomas Ashworth CTC & Liquid Biopsy Symposium has been extended until 28 August 2026. Register to take advantage of the early bird rate. https://lnkd.in/gpfWcz-4 Don’t miss the opportunity to join researchers, clinicians and industry leaders to explore the latest advances in circulating tumour cells (CTCs), liquid biopsy and translational cancer research. 📝 Consider submitting an abstract and sharing your research-Deadline of Friday 28th August 2026 at COB (5pm): https://lnkd.in/gbx5uJRt Elin Gray Edith Cowan University Centre for Precision Health - ECU Chamindie Punyadeera Clare Stirzaker Sandra Fitzgerald Jean Winter Anders Jacobsen Skanderup Therese Becker Henry (Hyun Woo) Park Lydia Warburton
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📺 Last night we were excited to see 7NEWS Perth highlight the AusME Biobank, giving Western Australians the opportunity to contribute to research into long COVID and ME/CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome). Led by Emerge Australia Inc in partnership with the Centre for Precision Health, people living with long COVID and ME/CFS, along with healthy volunteers, can donate a blood sample to support vital research. Learn more and register your interest at: https://lnkd.in/eZjJCYBK #LongCOVID #MECFS #chronicfatigue #Biobank #precisionhealth #ECU Simon Laws Chris Latella Milcent Tsvangirayi
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We were delighted to welcome Anne Wilson, CEO of Emerge Australia Inc, to the CPH labs this week, as part of our partnership with leading the WA node of the AusME Biobank for #longcovid and #ME/CFS (#chronicfatigue syndrome). CPH and Emerge Australia are also inviting Australians with ME/CFS or long COVID to take part in a confidential online survey, "Living with ME/CFS or long COVID in Australia: A National Burden of Disease Study". 👉 https://lnkd.in/gYmjHiKu Chris Latella Anthony Blazevich
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👏 Congrats to our Deputy Director Professor Elin Gray on being awarded the Women in Skin Research Award from the Australasian Society for Dermatology Research!
I am truly honoured to receive the Women in Skin Research Award from the Australasian Society for Dermatology Research (ASDR). Thank you to ASDR for this recognition and for the opportunity to share our research at the 2026 ASDR Conference. It was an inspiring event that broadened my perspective on skin research beyond melanoma and cancer. Congratulations to the organisers for delivering such a fantastic conference. #ASDR #SkinResearch #WomenInScience
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💡 Age acceleration, or the difference between biological and chronological age, is a research area of growing interest, particularly in the field of age-related and neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We are proud to share new research from the Centre, led by Dr Lidija Milicic, that found that accelerated biological ageing, measured using a next-generation epigenetic clock (PCPhenoAge), was consistently associated with smaller hippocampal volume (a key brain region involved in memory), across two independent ageing cohorts. These findings strengthen evidence linking biological ageing to brain health and provide new insights into ageing and Alzheimer's disease-related changes. #AlzheimersResearch #PrecisionHealth #Epigenetics #BrainHealth #DementiaResearch #ECU 🔗 Read the publication: https://rdcu.be/fuvHb
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🎓 Student Research Spotlight Led by Leah Dempsey, CPH Masters by Research student, this publication examined the research priorities for Australians living with neurological conditions and whether they changed after COVID-19. Compared to 2019 results, after COVID-19 in 2023 saw mental health and wellbeing becoming the highest priority to people in the neurological community. The findings highlight the growing importance of mental health support for meeting the needs of the neurological community. #COVID #neurological #Parkinsons #MS #stroke #mentalhealth https://lnkd.in/gUraErap
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🌟 Congratulations to CPH PhD student Anjana Thapa on receiving the Best Presentation award at the Edith Cowan University School of Medical and Health Sciences #HDR Symposium! Anjana presented her project on #genetic risk mapping for amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA).
Honoured to receive the Best Presentation Award at the SMHS HDR Symposium 2026. Grateful to all my wonderful supervisors for their support and mentorship #SMHS_HDR_Symposium #CPH #ECU
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Exciting news! Two of our researchers have received funding support through the WA Near Miss Awards, made possible by the WA Government’s Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund. These grants will assist: Dr Pauline Zaenker – to investigate Autoantibodies as predictive biomarkers of immunotherapy response and severe Immune-related Adverse Events in Cutaneous Melanoma Patients. Dr Aaron Beasley – to investigate Advanced cfDNA genomics for improving the outcomes of cancer patients. These awards back projects that narrowly missed out on NHMRC national funding and will drive our promising discoveries in #cancer #genomics and #OncoAutoimmunity research further.
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👏 Congrats to CPH #PhD student Shajib Dey who has completed his 3-month industry internship through the iPREP and Perth Biodesign program.
Over the past three months, I had the privilege of completing my industry internship at VitalTrace through the iPREP Program by Perth Biodesign 2026. As a PhD researcher from Edith Cowan University SMHS, much of my work focuses on developing AI-driven approaches for biomedical research. This internship gave me the opportunity to step beyond academia and experience how data science is applied to real clinical and engineering challenges in industry. Working with the Data Science team, I contributed to projects involving continuous lactate monitoring by analysing large-scale sensor, manufacturing, and clinical datasets. Throughout the internship, I worked extensively with Python, Snowflake SQL, machine learning, signal processing, feature engineering, predictive modelling, and data integration to help explore relationships within complex biomedical data and support evidence-based decision making. One of the biggest lessons I take away is that building a useful model is only part of the challenge. Understanding the data, validating assumptions, collaborating across multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring that insights are interpretable and clinically meaningful are equally important. I'm incredibly grateful to the entire VitalTrace team for creating such a supportive learning environment. A special thank you to Brendan van Rooyen, Eunji Kim, Bach Long Nguyen & Bharat Khumar, whose guidance and willingness to share knowledge made this experience both challenging and rewarding. I'm also thankful to everyone I had the opportunity to work alongside. Cheers to other interns of VitalTrace Afroja Rahman, Ananda Buckley, and Ankita Modi; you made these three months genuinely enjoyable. I would also like to thank Sandra Medic, the iPREP Program, and The University of Western Australia for providing this opportunity to bridge academic research with industry experience. As I continue my PhD, I look forward to building on this experience and continuing to work at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Healthcare, developing solutions that are not only technically robust but also capable of creating real clinical impact. Here's to the next chapter. 🚀 #DataScience #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #HealthcareInnovation #BiomedicalResearch #PhD #IndustryResearch #VitalTrace #iPREP #Snowflake #Python
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