RESEARCHERS working with stem cells to find treatments for osteoarthritis and stomach cancer are the two winners of the 2023 Metcalf Prizes for Stem Cell Research, awarded by the National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia.
Dr Jiao Jiao Li plans to use stem cells as biofactories to make drugs to reduce inflammation and encourage repair in osteoarthritic joints.
Dr Dustin Flanagan wants to boost the survival rate of late-stage stomach cancer by understanding why some deviant stomach stem cells turn cancerous.
This knowledge will help in the development of drugs to bring these misbehaving cells back to normal function, he explained.
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