DiscoBio News

  .                                                  Dr Sandra Duffy was awarded an internationally competitive Griffith University Postdoctoral research fellowship for two years; supporting her research into resistance to the antimalarial drug artemisinin, by the malaria causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum.  

Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Avery for becoming a fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (www.qldacademy.org.au). The Queensland Academy exists to promote excellence in the arts and sciences, to stimulate activity in those areas that lie on the intersection between disciplines, and to provide advice for social and public policy. The Queensland Academy aims to promote advances in the arts and sciences, and to give a voice to scholars, thinkers and social commentators from a wide range of …

Distinguished Professor Vicky Avery is the Director, Centre for Cellular Phenomics, Griffith University; Principal Research Leader, Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery; Head of Griffith’s Drug Discovery Programme for Cancer Therapeutics and Research Member, Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Menzies Health Institute Queensland. Distinguished Professor Avery is a world recognised and respected leader in drug discovery, with considerable experience in high-content imaging and high throughput screening. She established world-class facilities and amongst her contributions, pioneered image-based drug discovery for parasitic diseases. Throughout her …

This award recognises Professor Vicky Avery’s accomplishments,  her exceptional pursuit for excellence and demonstrated research impact. Professor Avery is a world-recognised expert in drug discovery. This award for Research Impact, recognises her contributions to the development of drugs for multiple disease indications, most recently in the fields of cancer and neglected diseases. She pioneered image-based drug discovery for parasitic and rare diseases. The awards were announced at the Vice Chancellors Gala Awards ceremony, at the Gold Coast.

  Congratulation to Research Leader Dr Danielle Kamato who has been awarded a Future Leader Fellowship Level 1 from the Heart Foundation to study the interactions in the blood vessel to develop novel treatments and biomarkers for heart disease. Click here for more info.