Dr Benjamin Goss
Queensland University of Technology Approximately 280 people are newly paralysed by traumatic spinal cord injury each year. This injury results in lifelong disability and sensory and motor function due to secondary degeneration. Ben’s research is focused on two areas. Firstly the development of strategies to minimise the effect of this nerve fibre degeneration. He is…
Read More »Dr Elke Hacker
Queensland University of Technology and Queensland Institute of Medical Research Skin cancer is the most common cancer in Australia. Elke’s research hopes to improve our understanding of the interplay between sun exposure, genetic susceptibility and skin cancer risk leading to more effective strategies for the prevention of this disease. Her current research project will test…
Read More »Dr Genevieve Healy
The University of Queensland, 2010 Queensland Young Tall Poppy of the Year The majority of Australian adults spend most of their day sitting. Dr Healy’s work has already linked prolonged sitting to obesity, high blood sugars and blood fats, and premature death, regardless of any other exercise undertaken. Her current research is focused on workplace…
Read More »Dr Hannah Cullup
Mater Medical Research Institute Bone marrow transplants provide the only cure for many patients who suffer from leukaemia, myeloma and other disorders of the blood system. A common complication following a transplant known as graft versus host disease (GVHD) is a serious problem. This occurs when the donor immune cells generate an immune attack against…
Read More »Dr Julia Crilly
Queensland Health Most of us hope to never to be a patient in a Hospital Emergency Department but in the future our movement through these departments and the hospital as a whole may be smoother as a result of the research being carried out by Dr Crilly. In developing the Emergency Department Patient Admission Prediction…
Read More »Dr Kerry Manton
Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology Understanding cell migration in normal and diseased states is important in for two very important reasons. Accelerated cell migration in cancerous cells leads to metastasis (cancer spreading) where as slow cell migration in wound healing can lead to chronic wounds and amputations. Dr Manton’s research…
Read More »Dr Mitch Duncan
Central Queensland University The volume of time spent sitting is emerging as an independent risk factor for several diseases even if a person is physically active. Dr Duncan’s research is centred on the effects of too little physical activity and too much sitting; the influence that community designs and workplace environments have on these behaviours;…
Read More »Dr Sarah Medland
Queensland Institute of Medical Research Dr Medland works in three areas of human health and wellbeing with a focus on the importance of genes and the environment on human behaviours. Her work on the non-medical use of prescription drugs and gene variants in Attention Deficient Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has the long term goal of improving…
Read More »Dr Susan Bengtson Nash
Griffith University Highly toxic, man-made pollutants such as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) can be highly dispersible and can move towards the polar regions from where they are released in more temperate zones. Susan’s research seeks to investigate the impacts of these pollutants on the Antarctic ecosystem and provide sound advice to environmental management strategies for…
Read More »Dr Trevor Russell
The University of Queensland Australia has many rural and remote communities who are some distance from good health care services. Dr Russell has developed a mobile videoconferencing system to provide real time objective measurement tools for assessing patients in their homes via the internet. He aims to investigate the efficiency and cost benefits of treatment…
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