31st May 2017
QUT has been awarded 14 Research Fellowships under the Advance Queensland Research Fellowship program. Seven early-career Fellowships totalling $1.26 million, and seven mid-career Fellowships worth $2.1 million were awarded.
Additional funding of $1.71 million is being provided by industry co-sponsors.
The funding will see QUT researchers advance projects from personalised tests for prostate cancer diagnosis to unmanned aircraft safety to antibiotic coatings for orthopaedic implants.
QUT researchers to receive $300,000 mid-career Fellowships are:
- Dr Phong Tran: Antibiotic - eluting coatings for antimicrobial orthopaedic implants.
- Dr Yunfei Xi: Value-added building materials using Queensland’s natural mineral resources.
- Dr Shivashankar Nagaraj: Improved transfusion in Indigenous Queenslanders - linking genomics to clinical diagnostics.
- Dr Jennifer Gunter: Targeting cancer metabolism with therapeutics derived from Queensland biota.
- Dr Elke Hacker: Testing new technology in skin cancer prevention.
- Dr Brett Williams and Dr Sudipta Das Bhowmik: Tropical Pulses for Queensland.
QUT researchers to receive $180,000 early-career Fellowships are:
- Dr Thi My Linh Hoang: Tropical Pulses for Queensland
- Srilakshmi Srinivasan: A personalised PSA test for prostate cancer diagnosis.
- Dr Joshua Burgess: An accurate companion diagnostic predicting patient response to PARP inhibitors.
- Dr Timothy Molloy: Safely Guiding Unmanned Aircraft through Queensland Skies.
- Dr Chittayong Surakitbanharn: Improving the communication of disaster information in Queensland communities.
- Dr Mahboobeh Shahbazi: Engineered Design of Bulk Superconductors for Maximum Efficiency Motors/Generators.
- Dr Claire Levrier: Development of a new anti-cancer agent from a Queensland plant.
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