Staff awards and achievements
Pingping Han, Wei Wei, Xiang Li, Saso Ivanoski
Australian Dental Research Fund Inc Project Grant
Jason Mattingley and Angie Renton
Australian Department of Defence Grant
Amanda Robinson
Australian Research Council, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Reuben Rideaux
Australian Research Council, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Bruno van Swinderen
Australian Research Council, Discovery Project Grant
Geoffrey Goodhill
Australian Research Council, Discovery Project Grant
Linda Richards and Peter Dayan
Australian Research Council, Discovery Project Grant
Paul Dux, Hannah Filmer, Jason Mattingley and Jason Stagg
Australian Research Council, Discovery Project Grant
Timothy Bredy
Australian Research Council, Discovery Project Grant
David Wright, Adam Walker, Akram Zamani and Laura Jacobson
Bethlehem Griffiths Research Foundation, Research Project Grant
Geoff Faulkner, Seth Cheetham and Adam Ewing
Cancer Australia, Priority-driven Collaborative Cancer Research Scheme (PdCCRS) Grant
Adekunle Bademosi
Dementia Australia, Research Foundation Project Grant
Dhanisha Jhaveri and Elizabeth Coulson
Dementia Australia, Research Foundation Project Grant
Dhanisha Jhaveri
Dementia Australia, Research Foundation Project Grant
Lei Qian and Elizabeth Coulson
Dementia Australia, Research Foundation Project Grant
Barbora Fulopova
Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration's (DCRC), Conference Travel Scholarship
Perry Bartlett, Robert Henderson, Jing Zhao, Andrew Boyd, Michael Gerometta and Pamela McCombe
FightMND, Drug Development Grant
Valerio Tettamanti
International Society for Neuroethology, Heiligenberg Student Travel Award
Valerio Tettamanti
Millennium Science, Millennium Science Fellowship (x Genomics Fellowship)
Laura Fenlon
Millennium Science, Millennium Science Fellowship (x Genomics Fellowship)
Adam Walker, Rebecca San Gil and Emma Scotter
MND Research Australia (MNDRA), Innovator Grant
Frederik Steyn, Shyuan Ngo, Rod Minchin, Kristel R. van Eijk, Robert Henderson, Naomi Wray, Pamela McCombe and Cedric van den Berg
MND Research Australia (MNDRA), Innovator Grant
Victor Anggono, Mihwa Lee and Jocelyn Widagdo
MND Research Australia (MNDRA), Innovator Grant
Fatima Nasrallah
Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC), QBI Senior Research Fellowship
Fatima Nasrallah
Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC), Traumatic Brain Injury Grant
Michael Berk, Nicholas Martin, Murat Yucel, Rebecca McKetin, Michael Millard, Cathrine Mihalopoulos, Greg Ward, Daniel Lubman, Chee Ng, Osvaldo Almeida, Jerome Sarris, Adrienne O'Neil, Kate Hoy, Jim Lagopoulos, Anthony Rodgers, Cherrie Ann Galletly, Vasso Apostolopoulos, Katherine Mills, Mark Nelson, David Forbes, John McGrath, Sophia Zoungas, Philip Batterham, Jayashri Kulkarni, Denise Meyer, Sarah Russell, Helen Christensen, Olivia Dean, Sean Hood, Susan Rossell, Jane Gunn, Gin Malhi, Stephen Touyz, Christos Pantelis, Richard Bryant, Michael Kyrios, Samuel Harvey, Suresh Sundram, Dan Siskind, Svetha Venkatesh, Frances Kay-Lambkin, Anthony Harris, Alyna Turner, Colleen Loo, Christopher Davey, Nicholas Glozier, Richard Osborne, Meaghan O'Donnell, Felice Jacka and Paul Fitzgerald
Medical Research Future Fund, Million Minds Mission Grant
Helen Cooper and Belal Shohayeb
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHRMC), Ideas Grant
Timothy Bredy
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHRMC), Ideas Grant
Zhaoyu Li
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHRMC), Ideas Grant
Geoffrey Goodhill
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHRMC), Investigator Grant Leadership
Massimo Hilliard
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHRMC), Investigator Grant Leadership
Linda Richards and Elliott Sherr
National Institutes of Health (NIH), NIH R01 subaward
Deniz Ertekin
Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF), AeRO & Google, AeRO Cloud Grants Program
Jana Vukovic
Sylvia and Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation, Sylvia and Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation Senior Medical Research Fellowship
Susannah Tye
UQ-Emory, 2020-2021 UQ-Emory Collaborative Partnership Research Grant
Frederic Meunier and Adekunle Bademosi
Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie
Dhanisha Jhaveri
Dementia Australia, Research Foundation Project Grant
Adekunle Bademosi
Race Against Dementia – Dementia Australia Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (a joint fellowship programme between Formula One legend Sir Jackie Stewart’s charity, Race Against Dementia, and the Dementia Australia Research Foundation)
Deniz Ertekin
AeRO Cloud Grant
Paul Marshall (Bredy lab)
UQ Genomic Innovation Hub grant to develop new sequencing technology
Rebecca San Gil and Adam Walker (Walker lab)
UQ Genomic Innovation Hub grant to optimise a bioinformatics and validation pipeline for genome-wide CRISPR screening data
Peter Kozulin, Laura Fenlon and Rodrigo Suarez (Richards lab)
UQ Genomic Innovation Hub grant to utilise RNA velocity quantification of single cell transcriptomics to study differential cellular ontogeny across different mammalian species
Adam Walker
Bethlehem Griffiths Research Foundation Grant
Matilde Balbi and team
Early-Stage Bionics Innovation Award winners in the Bionics Queensland Challenge
Fatima Nasrallah
Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC), Senior Research Fellowship
Cong Wang
NanoString Young Investigator Brain Tank Neuroscience Edition Prize
Laura Leighton
UQ Postdoctoral Fellowship
Laura Leighton
Prader Willi Foundation Grant
SusannahTye and Fatima Nasrallah
Emory University and University of Queensland Collaborative Research Partnership Grants
Lei Qian
UQ Researcher Retention Fellowship
Fanny de Busserolles
Konishi Neuroethology Research Award
Elizabeth Coulson
ANS 2021 Nina Kondelos Award for a female neuroscientist for outstanding contributions to basic or clinical neuroscience research
Laura Fenlon and Valerio Tettamanti
Millennium Science Fellowship
Roger Varela
Samuel Gershon Junior Investigator Award
Jürgen Götz, John McGrath and Naomi Wray
Named as Highly Cited Researchers
Naomi Wray
ISPG Ming Tsuang Lifetime Achievement Award
Patrick Silvey
LSQ McCullough Robertson Industry Excellence Award at Life Sciences Queensland GENE Awards ceremony, for his contributions to the life sciences sector in Queensland
Emma Scott
Excellence in Trades (Final Year) Award (MIGAS)
Emma Scott
Apprentice of the Year (MIGAS) and Engineering & Manufacturing Apprentice of the Year (TAFE QLD)
Frederic Meunier, Matilde Balbi and Jürgen Götz with their colleagues at the University of Zurich
UQ/QBI/UZurich Neuroscience Cluster Pilot Grants
Pingping Han, Wei Wei, Xiang Li, Saso Ivanoski
Australian Dental Research Fund, Project Grant for human salivary circular RNAs profile in periodontal disease: a pilot study. (Administered by UQ Faculty of Medicine)
Jason Mattingley, Angie Renton
Australian Department of Defence, Commonwealth Defence Science and Technology Group for enhancing sustained visual attention using real-time neurofeedback training
Jana Vukovic
Paxinos-Watson Award for the published paper: 'Willis et al, 2020 Repopulating Microglia Promote Brain Repair in an IL-6-Dependent Manner'
Ethan Scott
Promoted to Professor
Victor Anggono, Fatima Nasrallah, Steve Zuryn and Jana Vukovic
Promoted to Associate Professor
Massimo Hilliard and Matilde Balbi
Elected as members of UQ’s Academic Board
Student awards and achievements
Montana Samantzis (Balbi lab)
UQ University Medal
Adam Hines (van Swinderen lab)
Fulbright Scholarship
Adam Hines (van Swinderen lab)
Runner-up in QBI’s 3MT competition
Svetlina Vasileva (Eyles lab)
Winner’s prize and the People’s Choice award in QBI’s 3MT competition
Henry Burgess (Richards lab)
Hawken Scholar for 2020, requiring an academic performance in the top 5% of the undergraduate Engineering cohort at UQ
Laura Morcom (Richards lab) and Paul Marshall (Bredy lab)
2020 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Higher Degree by Research Thesis
Drew Cylinder (van Swinderen lab)
ATA Scientific Instruments, National Encouragement Award
Valerio Tettamanti (Marshall lab)
Heiligenberg student travel award
Valerio Tettamanti (Marshall lab)
Millennium Science Fellowship
Congratulations to the 15 students who graduated this year:
- Bharat Venkatesh
- Kyna-Anne Conn
- Amy Streets
- Rhiannon Jeans
- Hong Vo
- Laura Leighton
- Amu Faiz
- Anastacia Brandon
- Christopher Small
- Talina Bayeleva
- Kai Sempert
- Chuan Yang Dai
- Xuan Vinh To
- Abdalla Mohamed