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  • PhD student Fabian Kurth has accepted a position at Accenture, a leading global management, consulting and outsourcing services organisation.
  • IMB scientist is part of an international team awarded $US1.3 million to help identify how fat deposits in humans can be used to attack bacteria. UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience scientist Professor Robert Parton is one of only two Australian-based researchers to get 2015 Human Frontier Science Program funding.
  • IMB Advisory Board formed to assist in guiding IMB’s operations as a leader in research, commercialisation, philanthropic and engagement activities.
  • Professor Kirill Alexandrov has been awarded a 2015 NBCF Innovator Grant to investigate the potential of a new diagnostic test for advanced breast cancer. ­
  • The NHMRC has awarded IMB's Professor David Fairlie $557,000 over three years to develop new drug treatments for malaria, a disease that kills an estimated 584,000 people worldwide each year.
  • Professor Matthew Cooper and Dr Mark Butler have received the prestigious JA Medal for a review the pair authored titled ‘Antibiotics in the Clinical Pipeline in 2011’.
  • UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) are inviting interested locals to join them for a public author event from 5.30pm on Wednesday 1 April to celebrate Penguin Random House’s upcoming new release.
  • UQ scientists have brought a retired sex gene in mammals back to life, proving it can still switch on male development in mice despite not having done so for millions of years.
  • A University of Queensland research team has been awarded a grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research to target brain inflammation in people with Parkinson’s disease.

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