2004

Media releases 2004

• 01-December-2004

  Skin cancer partnership coincides with New Study Examining Sun Damage in Queensland Infants

  To launch the official start of summer, The Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) and Suncorp have announced a first-ever partnership to...

• 15-November-2004

  QIMR scientists combating Asian cancer

  The Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) is undertaking a major project to defeat one of the most common cancer killers in people of...

• 11-November-2004

  Anti-HIV drugs may also be protective against malaria

  Scientists from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) have found that a group of HIV drugs known as protease inhibitors may also be...

• 21-October-2004

  Microcrustaceans defeat dengue fever

  Dengue fever causes 50 million infections annually in more than 90 countries; however this may soon become a thing of the past, as QIMR broadens its...

• 15-October-2004

  US dollars help develop streptococcal vaccine

  QIMR researchers have just received a five year grant from the National Institutes of Health in the USA to develop a vaccine against group A...

• 13-October-2004

  Sports stars champion health and medical research for thank you day

  National sporting champions will join their research heroes around the country to celebrate better health and quality of life from Australian medical...

• 25-September-2004

  The hunt for eczema genes

  The Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) is halfway through a major project examining possible genetic causes of atopic dermatitis which is...

• 15-September-2004

  Getting on the grog is in the genes

  The Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital have determined that although alcohol consumption and alcohol...

• 27-July-2004

  How long does a mosquito live… and why is it important?

  A recent project at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research found that determining the age of female mosquitoes may be crucial to halting the...

• 21-July-2004

  Tissue therapies and QIMR collaboration targets cancer

  A Brisbane based biomedical company, Tissue Therapies Limited (TIS) and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) have agreed on the terms...

• 21-July-2004

  Tourism and medical research: A necessary alliance

  On the surface, the world's of tourism and medical research appear miles apart, but in reality they are bound to each other, to the extent that one...

• 25-June-2004

  Queen's Birthday Honours for QIMR's Professor Adèle Green

  Professor Adèle Green, Head of the Cancer and Populations Studies Group and Deputy Director of QIMR was awarded the Companion in the Order of...

• 09-June-2004

  Prostate cancer "immunotherapy" vaccine hits clinical trials

  Scientists at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) are currently trialling an experimental immunotherapy treatment for men with...

• 26-May-2004

  QIMR: Finding genes for schizophrenia

  There is good evidence that genes play an important role in causing schizophrenia. The disease prevalence is higher among blood relatives than...

• 12-May-2004

  Novel vaccine strategy for rheumatic fever

  The Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) is working on a vaccine to prevent rheumatic fever (RF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD)....

• 04-May-2004

  Tackling asthma with new study

  4 May 2004 is World Asthma Day. Asthma, hayfever, eczema and associated allergies are among the most common chronic diseases in the developed world....

• 30-April-2004

  Red wine and ovarian cancer

  Scientists at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) have determined that moderate wine intake may reduce the risk of ovarian cancer. In...

• 15-April-2004

  Scientific peers validate PEP005 research

  The Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) and Peplin Biotech Ltd. have announced that five years of collaborative research on Peplin's new...

• 02-April-2004

  Bike boys update

  An epic journey of over 4,300 kilometres to raise funds and awareness for the Queensland Institute of Medical Research ended today at Bondi beach in...

• 25-March-2004

  International funding for Hodgkin's disease vaccine research

  QIMR scientists are one step closer to an immunotherapy vaccine against Hodgkin's disease and a form of naso-pharyngeal cancer (NPC) after receiving a...

• 12-March-2004

  QIMR shaves for the cure

  QIMR Director Michael Good was among the group of volunteers at QIMR who today stepped up to the challenge of raising money for leukaemia research by...

• 12-March-2004

  Colin Harper remembered

  The man who has conducted more concerts at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre than anyone else and who was once called a "hit" by the...

• 09-March-2004

  HIV/AIDS research at QIMR

  HIV continues to ravage the world and there is still no cure. More than 30 million men, women and children have died from AIDS. AIDS now kills more...

• 03-March-2004

  Weight loss and exercise can slow progression of chronic liver disease

  Scientists at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) and the Princess Alexandra Hospital have demonstrated that losing weight and...

• 24-February-2004

  Boys cycle from Perth to Sydney for cancer research

  Three Brisbane men are undertaking the trek of their lives when they cycle from Perth to Sydney to raise funds and awareness for the Queensland...

• 26-January-2004

  Australia Day Honours for QIMR Chairman, Sir Bruce Watson

  Congratulations to our Chairman, Sir Bruce Watson, for receiving the Companion (AC) in the General Division in the Australia Day Honours list for...