An international research team that includes The University of Western Australia has released details of a breakthrough which holds promise of a new therapeutic approach for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), an incurable muscle-wasting disease.

A major breakthrough study, published today in Nature, has provided a complete roadmap of the human epigenome and has major implications for the treatment of human diseases and development of stem-cell based regenerative medicine.

A public lecture series to allow the community to engage with Nobel Laureates from around the world has been named in honour of Professors Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, joint winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2005.

Slow Food hero Carlo Petrini, famous for instigating the eco-gastronomy movement that is sweeping the world, will give a free public lecture at The University of Western Australia during his one-day visit to Perth.

A Winthrop Professor of Respiratory Medicine at The University of Western Australia has won a prestigious first prize in the British Medical Association book awards' respiratory medicine category.

UWA has joined the international sailing scene with the launch of its first Foundation 36 yacht.

A book co-authored by UWA's Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Dr Gary Lee, has been described as "the definitive textbook on pleural diseases across the world."

Two Professors of Anaesthesia at The University of Western Australia have won prestigious first prizes in the ‘Anaesthesia' and ‘Basis of Medicine' categories of the British Medical Association Book Awards.

Former journalist and television executive turned Conservative politician Ted Brocklebank will lead a delegation of Scottish MPs delivering a public lecture at The University of Western Australia on Monday October 12, 2009 to mark the first 10 years since devolution.