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. In particular, congratulations to: |
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Dr Kathy Andrews who won the Senior Researcher Award for her presentation "A “piggy back” platform for antimalarial drug discovery" | |
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Dr Patricia Valery who was a finalist in the Senior Researcher Award for her presentation "High prevalence of metabolic syndrome in youth of the Torres Strait Islands of Australia". | |
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Matthew Dixon who was a runner-up in the Postgraduate Student Award for his presentation "The renovators dream: host cell remodelling and protein trafficking by the malaria parasite" | |
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Nadia Whitelaw who was a runner-up in the Postgraduate Student Award for her presentation "An enu mutagenesis screen for epigenetic modifers in the mouse reveals a role for the trim28 gene in mental health, obesity and infertility" | |
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Nirmala Pandeya who was a finalist in the Postgraduate Student Award for her presentation "Smoking and alcohol intake and the risk of oesophageal adenocarcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas" | |