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- IMB Group Leader Dr Joseph Powell has been awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Health Minister’s Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research.
- Queensland researchers have made a big leap forward in their quest to eradicate the billions of cane toads wreaking havoc on our native wildlife and habitats.
Environmentally friendly cane toad traps – developed by a team of researchers from The University of Queensland and The University of Sydney – are one step closer to production, following an agreement between UQ and US-based pest control company, SpringStar Inc. - Spiders have helped researchers from Australia and the US discover a new target for irritable bowel syndrome pain.
- Taking medicine in the future could be as simple as eating a sunflower seed or drinking a cup of tea made from herbs grown in your own garden.
- An international team involving University of Queensland researchers has used advanced genome sequencing to diagnose 30 patients with unresolved rare diseases.
- Join leading clinical pain scientist, Professor Lorimer Moseley, and IMB researchers as they discuss how the challenging and personal nature of pain is inspiring a new generation of patient-focused treatments for one of the most poorly understood and undertreated conditions in modern medicine.
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- UQ’s Community for Open Antimicrobial Drug Discovery (CO-ADD) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the African Network for Drugs and Diagnostics Innovation (ANDI) which is hosted by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).
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