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- Associate Professor Andrew Mallett will receive a 2019 Distinguished Young Alumni Award for his work on the genetics of inherited kidney disease and co-founding of Australia’s first renal genetics clinical service and program.
- The Federal Minister for Health Greg Hunt MP visited UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience to announce more than $440 million in NHMRC funding for Australian health researchers.
- An Australian group of researchers have helped develop the world’s most detailed gene map of the human retina.
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience researchers have discovered that environmental conditions can increase or decrease the effect of inherited genetic variations.
- Professor Rob Capon's UQ Cane Toad Challenge has been boosted by a Queensland Citizen Science grant.
- A grant from the Children’s Hospital Foundation will help Dr Laura Genovesi juggle family and tackle childhood brain cancer treatments.
- New research has opened a pathway to improved antibiotics after revealing a crucial step in the way bacteria construct their defences.
- A compound from cannabis has been found to be active against the bacteria responsible for many serious infections such as golden staph and pneumonia.
- IMB researchers have helped identify a possible drug target for chronic liver disease.
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