Professor Jian Yang, whose pioneering work has helped unravel the complexity of the human genome and genetic traits, has won the 2017 Prime Minister's Prize for Life Scientist of the Year.
Across Australia’s vast outback, parasitic worms are crippling sheep production. The little-known, blood-sucking Barber's Pole worm is one of the most dangerous, commonly killing infected sheep.
IMB agricultural sciences PhD student Samantha Nixon (King Group) has been named as one of 22 exceptional young Australians to receive a Westpac Future Leaders Scholarship. Samantha is is researching the concept of spider venoms as next generation treatments to combat drug resistance in parasites in Australian livestock.
Four IMB researchers have been recognised as some of the world’s most influential scientific minds, as measured by the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers list.
IMB Industry Fellow Dr Christina Schroeder will tomorrow set sail for the inaugural Homeward Bound program, which is the largest-ever female expedition to Antarctica. The program aims to help women in science to develop their skills in leadership and strategy and raise awareness of the important contributions made by women in STEMM fields.
The young inventor behind a UQ discovery that could benefit patients living with inflammatory diseases has been awarded the 2016 Research Australia Discovery Award.
IMB’s Mathilde Desselle has won the Queensland Women in Technology (WiT) InfoTech Professional Award for her leadership of biomedical research programs and facilities in the fields of genomics, bioinformatics and drug discovery.
