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- UQ will host 23 undergraduate science and biomedical students from China’s Fudan University this month.
- Protagonist Therapeutics Inc. has secured $14 million in venture financing from new investor Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation and existing investors Lilly Ventures and Starfish Ventures (Melbourne, Australia).
- Scientist Without Borders: Marga Gual Soler joins us at Real Scientists
- Researchers at UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience have been awarded five grants worth $2.4 million to work with industry on projects such as developing eco-friendly insesticides for crops and treatments for pain from spider venom.
- Emily Furlong of Manly West will be working alongside some of Queensland’s best scientists on antibiotic-resistance projects.
- Two postgraduate students from The University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience will learn from some of the world’s best scientific minds after securing places at prestigious US laboratories.
- UQ researchers have reprogrammed adult kidney cells to act as stem cells to repair damaged kidneys.
- Minister for Health Tanya Plibersek and Minister for Mental Health and Ageing Mark Butler have announced funding to support six new dementia research projects.
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