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- Associate Professor Markus Muttenthaler has been awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship.
- Better medicines, food, nutraceuticals, nanomaterials and biofertilisers will flow from new Australian Government funding to bolster marine bioproduct innovation.
- Chloe Yap, an IMB clinician-scientist has won the Judge’s Award at this year’s Queensland Women in STEM Awards.
- A potentially life-saving treatment - Hi1a - for heart attack victims has been discovered from the venom of the Fraser Island funnel web spider.
- IMB researchers are aiming to better understand how therapeutics can be delivered to target cells in the body.
- The venom of a caterpillar, native to South East Queensland, shows promise for use in medicines and pest control.
- Handling lethal cone snails and tackling deadly viruses and bacteria is all in a day’s work for four fearless IMB researchers working tirelessly to fast-track healthcare and medicines.
- Dr Alysha Elliott is discovering new ways of tackling anti-microbial resistance.
- Queenslanders are being asked to 'dig deep' in an Australian-first project, with the next 'ground-breaking' medicine potentially hiding in their backyard.
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