Basic & Applied Research

QIMR salutes its first officer
Queensland Institute of Medical Research staff and supporters are today celebrating the public acknowledgement of the work of Director, Professor Michael Good. Professor Good was included in the Queen's Birthday Honours list as an Officer of the Order of Australia.
Smart State Fellowship for QIMR scientist
The Institute congratulates Associate Professor Maher Gandhi a winner of two Queensland Clinical Smart State Fellowships announced last week. The Fellowships provide funding for early or mid-career researchers to undertake innovative research in Queensland.
ASMR Awards recognise QIMR researchers
The Institute is very proud of their post-docs and students and the recognition they received on 30 May at the Australian Society for Medical Research Dinner to celebrate Medical Research Week. This is an annual event in which the winners of the Queensland Premier's Awards for Health and Medical Research. Five QIMR people were recognised.

Never too late to quit
QIMR researchers are giving smokers a very good reason to quit, following results of a study that found the longer people had stopped smoking, the better their chances of avoiding oesophageal cancer regardless of how long and how much they smoked.
New era of personalised medicine for bowel cancer
Dr Vicki Whitehall and Prof Barbara Leggett of the Conjoint Gastroenterology Laboratory at QIMR have developed a molecular test for the K-ras oncogene, which will be used by oncologists to determine the optimal therapy for patients with advanced bowel cancer.

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