Luke Mangan is one of Australia’s leading chefs and restaurateurs and is highly regarded internationally as a shining example of Australia’s culinary culture.

His career started in Melbourne under Herman Schneider, of ‘Two Faces’ fame. After completing his training, Luke persuaded Michel Roux of the 3 Michelin starred ‘Waterside Inn’ in London to give him a chance. He believes that working under these great chefs in the early years were the two most important steps he took to learn his craft.

Luke currently owns and operates glass brasserie, Hilton Sydney; Salt grill, Hilton Surfers Paradise; Salt grill, Singapore; Salt and the adjoining World Wine Bar, Tokyo; and Salt grill onboard three P&O cruise liners. He is also the consulting chef for Virgin Australia.

Luke brings   passion, energy and enthusiasm to the Board.

Prof John Rasko

The recording can be found at http://www.abc.net.au/classic/throsby/

Tuesday 9 August

10.05am Professor John Rasko
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Haematologist and specialist in stem cell research. > more

Stuart MacGill is a celebrated Australian cricketer and noted wine enthusiast. He was a member of the Australian Cricket Team and played domestic cricket for NSW.

Stuart MacGill is widely perceived to be Australia’s second best leg-spinner behind Shane Warne.

Stuart is a high achiever and a quiet achiever who loves cricket and appreciates his wine.

Stuart lives in Sydney with his wife, television journalist and host Rachel Friend, and their two children Alex and Penny.

Stuart is fascinated by the giant leaps being made in understanding how the human body works and the research into cell and gene therapy. Stuart’s passion for life lends itself well to the work of Cure the Future

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In 1902, two years after the rediscovery of Mendel’s laws of inheritance, British physician Sir Archibald Garrod made an historic discovery while studying several English families with an obscure disorder that caused their urine to turn brown,  then black when exposed to the air.

A brown pigment discoloured the cartilage and connective tissues of individuals with alkaptonurfa and they developed arthritis.

Humanity has always longed to possess the regenerative powers of other living things. The Mexican walking fish can regrow a severed limb, and if you cut the freshwater hydra into pieces, each will become a new creature.

The idea of possessing such powers is the stuff of ancient myths and science fiction. But with a new technique known as cell reprogramming, the reality may be soon upon us.

The field of regenerative medicine took a great leap forward in 2006 when scientists discovered how to turn back the biological clock of ordinary adult cells so that they began to look and act like embryonic stem cells. Called ”induced pluripotent stem” (iPS) cells, they possess the amazing capacity to develop into any cell type in the body.

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Written by Tamara McLean for SMH.

June 17, 2008

New Australian research which aims to trick the body into accepting blood clotting drugs could offer new hope to hemophiliacs.

A group of Sydney scientists are working on a new way to overcome a major problem that has hamstrung treatment advances for the genetic disease, hemophilia. Australian genetics experts led research showing that hemophiliacs, who lack certain proteins needed for blood to clot, could be given the much-needed clotting gene by inserting it into a genetically-engineered virus.

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Welcome to the November edition of the Cure The Future Newsletter.

It has been an exciting few months filled with scientific breakthroughs in the lab,

planning for our annual fundraiser and launching of our new website.

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Welcome to the second edition of the Cure The Future Newsletter for 2010. For some of you this may be the first

time you have received our newsletter. We are hoping to build our family of supporters, so we hope you are happy

to continue to receive information from Cure The Future.

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