On the evening of Tuesday the 13th of September, the annual Jian Zhou Memorial Oration was held at Customs House and attended by over 150 UQDI researchers, staff and respected guests.
Biologic bullets that target bacterial infections and an innovative method for sustainable ammonia production have won the Open and Student first prizes respectively in The University of Queensland (UQ) Final of UniQuest’s annual Trailblazer innovative ideas competition.
At the first Q-Index Awards held on Sunday the 22nd of May, 52 leading researchers from The University of Queensland were honoured as leaders in their diverse fields of discovery.
Three University of Queensland Diamantina Institute researchers were recipients of awards at the prestigious 52nd Australian Rheumatology Association (ARA) annual meeting.
Lions Medical Research Foundation Research Fellow, Dr Gethin Thomas, of the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, has been awarded an NHMRC project grant worth $460,000 to investigate new avenues of treatment for Ankylosing Spondylitis.
Dr Ray Steptoe of the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute (UQDI) was recently awarded an NHMRC grant of more than $300,000 over three years to continue his investigation into finding new ways to turn off damaging immune reactions in autoimmune diseases.