Institute for Molecular Bioscience

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  • Treating sheep worm with venom

    Venomous solution to sheep worm woes

    Published on: 18 July 2017
    Across Australia’s vast outback, parasitic worms are crippling sheep production. The little-known, blood-sucking Barber's Pole worm is one of the most dangerous, commonly killing infected sheep.
  • Ms Emma Livingstone

    A Kiwi in Kowie: Bringing science to Far North Queensland

    This year over 1000 National Science Week events took place across Australia including Catch a Rising Star: Women in Queensland Science, which sent teams of Queensland’s brightest early-to-mid career female scientists across the state to share their stories. IMB student Emma Livingstone travelled to Kowanyama, a remote Aboriginal community in Far North Queensland.
  • PhD student Samantha Nixon

    IMB PhD student awarded Westpac Future Leaders Scholarship

    Published on: 30 January 2017
    IMB agricultural sciences PhD student Samantha Nixon (King Group) has been named as one of 22 exceptional young Australians to receive a Westpac Future Leaders Scholarship. Samantha is is researching the concept of spider venoms as next generation treatments to combat drug resistance in parasites in Australian livestock.
  • Would $30k give your research career a boost?

    Apply now for the IMB Research Advancement Award

    Published on: 3 August 2016
    Applications are now open for the IMB Research Advancement Award, offering brilliant prospective PhD students the opportunity to secure a $30,000 top-up scholarship to support their studies at IMB.
  • Samantha Nixon

    Tarantula venom turns the worm

    Published on: 19 July 2016
    UQ Bachelor of Biomedical Science (honours) graduating student Samantha Nixon has been investigating compounds from tarantula venom as a potential treatment for sheep parasites which lead to huge economic losses for farmers.

  • IMB student investigating inflammation

    Published on: 2 October 2015
    University of Queensland PhD student Zoe Schofield is investigating the link between gut bacteria, diet and the human immune system to reduce inflammatory injury.

  • Hitting the ground running

    Published on: 29 September 2015
    After almost a decade of intense study in the fields of chemistry and biology, IMB PhD student Wanida Phetsang has been awarded a scholarship with technical solutions company 3M, where she has been using her knowledge to help in the development of healthcare products at the company’s research and development centre in Bangkok.

  • Superbug researcher wins Women in Technology award

    Published on: 31 August 2015
    IMB student Angie Jarrad has won the Queensland Women in Technology (WiT) PhD Career Start Award for her research to develop antibiotics to fight gut pathogens.

  • Applications for the IMB Research Advancement Award are now open!

    Published on: 15 June 2015
    UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) invites Australia’s most promising young scientists to apply for a $30,000 top-up scholarship to help kick-start their research career.

  • IMB student snapped up by Fortune 500 company

    Published on: 23 April 2015
    PhD student Fabian Kurth has accepted a position at Accenture, a leading global management, consulting and outsourcing services organisation.

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