Pancreatic cancer is one of the toughest cancers to treat – it’s aggressive, often diagnosed late, and doesn’t respond well to standard therapies. In this episode, we meet Professor Marina Pajic who is working at the cutting-edge of science to transform how we understand and treat this disease.

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Garvan is one of Australia's largest independent medical research institutes with a single focus: to make discoveries that will improve health for all. In this episode, you’ll hear from Executive Director Professor Benjamin Kile on how he came to be at Garvan's helm and his strategy for driving extraordinary science that will have transformational impact for patient lives.

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In Australia alone, 50 people are diagnosed with Parkinson's every day. Therapy options are limited, as they are for other movement and muscle disorders, such as ataxia and dystonia. In this episode of Medical Minds, we meet neurologist and researcher Associate Professor Kishore Kumar, who is working on the next big breakthroughs for treatment.

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The human body has an incredible capacity to heal itself – whether it’s a paper cut, a broken bone, or your lungs recovering after a chest infection. But not all types of healing are good for us. Cancers seem to have hijacked the healing process to protect themselves from treatments and to spread more easily around the body. In this episode, we speak to Associate Professor Thomas Cox, who is working to put a stop to this and make existing cancer therapy more effective.

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More than 33,000 people in Australia today are affected by multiple sclerosis, a disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord, for which there is no cure. In this episode, you’ll meet Dr Seyhan Yazar and Professor Tri Phan who are working to better manage, treat and prevent MS, by investigating what could be a critical link between this disease and a very common virus, the Epstein-Barr Virus.

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Scientific advances have led us to diagnosing, treating and preventing cancer much better than ever before. Still, 10 million people die of cancer every year and what we need now are transformative ideas. In this episode you’ll hear from Dr Amanda Khoury and Dr Braydon Meyer who are using AI to develop the next generation of cancer treatments and diagnostics.

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Our gastrointestinal system contains more than 70% of the body’s immune cells and can house more microbial cells than there are human cells in our entire body. Unravelling all that complexity is more important than ever, with conditions affecting the gut, such as Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis, on the rise. In today’s episode, we speak to Dr Kylie James who is taking a genetic deep dive – using single cell genomics – to develop more personalised approaches to preventing and treating inflammatory bowel disease. 

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The relief of a successful cancer treatment is all too often marred by a distressing, lingering uncertainty of whether a cancer will return. Cancer cells can tuck away and lie dormant for years before waking up to spread once again. In this episode we speak to Professor Peter Croucher who is tackling some of the toughest problems in cancer research – how can we track cancer cells on their way to becoming dormant, how can we stop them from waking up and how can we eradicate them from our system completely?

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