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- Scientists have discovered a possible link between Parkinson’s disease and a gene impacted by a neurotoxin found in blue-green algae.
- Professor Naomi Wray has received the Elizabeth Blackburn Investigator Grant Award for Leadership in Basic Science from the National Health and Medical Research Council.
- Is it a MAIT or foe? MAIT cells can help fight bacteria, but without the right signals, can contribute to cancer and autoimmune diseases.
- Compounds containing metals could hold the key to the next generation of antibiotics to combat the growing threat of global antibiotic resistance.
- IMB has a new Director - Professor Ian Henderson. Ian has devoted his working life to studying antibiotic resistance and develop solutions to this urgent global challenge.
- Four IMB women will share how they are tackling big problems such as obesity and cardiovascular disease, stroke, spinal cord injuries and sheep parasites through the Queensland Women in STEM competition.
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience researcher Chloe Yap will study in the US after successfully applying for a 2020 Fulbright scholarship.
- The Institute for Molecular Bioscience is searching for spiders to help our venom research search for new medicines.
- IMB supporter Dr Rosamond Siemon, who endowed a scholarship and bequest to our kidney research in 2006, passed away aged 98.
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