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- Scientists from Australia and the UK have completed the most comprehensive analysis yet of pancreatic cancer, in a study that could improve future treatments.
- Scientists in Brisbane and Ireland have developed a small molecule that blocks a key driver of inflammatory diseases – a finding that could inspire new treatments for arthritis, multiple sclerosis and a family of rare autoinflammatory diseases.
- University of Queensland structural biologist and women in science champion Professor Jenny Martin has been named a Mentor of the Year Award finalist in the 2015 NAB-Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards.
- University of Queensland research to prevent, treat and diagnose a range of cancers has been boosted by the injection of $1.78 million in Cancer Council Queensland funding.
- Congratulations to IMB advisory board member, Professor John Funder, who was awarded with one of the highest honours, a Companion (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia.
- For a full list of IMB events and seminars, visit http://events.imb.uq.edu.au/seminar_list.php
- IMB's Professor Jenny Martin recent blog post on new researcher-friendly metrics for ranking universities — including a happiness index — is drawing enthusiasm on social media and beyond.
- We’ve heard a lot lately about superbugs – bacteria that are resistant to current antibiotics. But as the threat of superbugs continues to rise, the number of new treatments available has flatlined. This has placed us dangerously close to the edge of a return to the pre-antibiotic era, when even simple infections caused death.
- Researchers at The University of Queensland are part of a global team that has identified a new type of artificial stem cell.
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