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UQ Researchers Receive $37.8 Million in NHMRC Funding
The University of queensland (UQ) has secured $37.8 million in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding, supporting vital health and medical research projects.
Professor Nagesh Bhat – understand how a new drug-resistant E. coli strain causes urinary tract infections and sepsis, to help fight the growing global threat of antibiotic resistance.
Professor H. Peter Soyer – use 3D body photography, AI and genomics to pinpoint high-risk skin areas, helping doctors detect melanoma earlier and save lives.
Professor Matt Sweet – study how immune cells turn off harmful inflammation and explore ways to use this process to create new anti-inflammatory treatments.
Professor Stewart Trost – develop a classification system capturing data on children’s screen use to determine the benefits and harms to their health.
Associate Professor Susannah Tye – develop a new deep brain stimulation system that adjusts in real time to the brain’s needs, reducing side effects and improving treatment for conditions like Parkinson’s disease.
Professor Brandon Wainwright – develop an mRNA vaccine to improve outcomes for children with brain cancer.
Professor Daniel Watterson – uncover how yellow fever vaccine mutations affect virus behavior and use these insights to design next-generation vaccines and antibody therapies for flaviviruses like dengue.
Associate Professor Timothy Wells – learn more about a ‘superbug’ bacteria that is outsmarting antibiotics to improve outcomes against drug-resistant infections.
Professor Nick West – investigate how tuberculosis bacteria use special systems to survive, and whether disrupting these systems can make them easier to treat or prevent infection altogether.
Dr Sarah Withey – grow tiny livers and brains to enable testing of treatments to tackle Ataxia Telangiectasia, a devastating childhood disease, that restore a crucial protein to ease symptoms and give affected children a better quality of life.
Associate Professor Steven Zuryn – two separate projects will investigate how mitochondrial DNA mutations spread within cells and how certain environmental bacteria can reduce mutations, uncovering new strategies to prevent and treat mitochondria-related diseases.
NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarships recipients: