This is your chance to spend a morning with Professor Grant Montgomery during Endometriosis Awareness Month.
Endometriosis Awareness takes place across the globe during the month of March to better understand this disease which affects an estimated 176 million women worldwide.
Professor Montgomery has made substantial contributions to the worldwide effort to map genomic regions contributing to risk for diseases including endometriosis, cancers of the reproductive tract, melanoma and inflammatory bowel disease. He is conducting studies to identify the genes and pathways affected by these genetic risk factors.
Session Overview
- Presentation from Prof Grant Montgomery
- Tour of Prof Montgomery’s laboratory
- Meet with Prof Montgomery’s team over light morning tea
We hope you can join us and look forward to seeing you at this event.
About Meet the Researchers
Our Institute was built to inspire scientists, to cultivate interaction across a wide range of scientific disciplines, to generate adventurous innovative ideas, to foster revolutionary discoveries, and to translate our knowledge of nature to discover cures for a better world. Our researchers are the life force that makes this possible and drive incredible discoveries to save lives today and into the future.
Meet the Researchers series is your chance to connect in person and hear firsthand how they are advancing understanding in the life sciences, and learn what fuels their passion to close in gamechanger discoveries.
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Venue
Queensland Bioscience Precinct (Bld 80)
The University of Queensland
306 Carmody Road, St Lucia
