QBI 2025 Awards and Achievements
The Queensland Brain Institute celebrated the close of a highly successful 2025 by acknowledging the latest achievements of researchers, students and staff.
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
Barry Dickson
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
Jürgen Götz
Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project Grants
Victor Anggono
Barry Dickson (with Kai Feng)
Jason Mattingley (with Dragan Rangelov)
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant
Barry Dickson
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grants
Matilde Balbi
Susannah Tye
Steven Zuryn (x2)
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Alcohol and Other Drugs Grant
Susannah Tye
Fight MND Clinical Trial Grant
Perry Bartlett
QBI Ross Maclean Senior Research Fellowship and Group Leader in MND Research
John Lee
Australian Research Council (ARC) Mid-Career Industry Fellowship
Sally Staton
Templeton World Charity Foundation Grant
Bruno van Swinderen
Alastair Rushworth Endowment PhD Award
Joris Geigenmueller
Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS) Finkel Foundation Travelling Fellowship
Barbora Fulopova
Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS) meeting - Paxinos-Watson Award for the most significant neuroscience paper published by a member of ANS
Gabriella Bodea
Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS) meeting - Best EMCR Oral Presentation
Margaux Lebouc
Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS) meeting - Best Poster Award
Shaam Al Abed
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetics (ANZCA) Academic Enhancement Grant
Bruno van Swinderen
Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) conference - Campion-Ma-Playoust Memorial Award for best presentation by a student or researcher under 30 years of age
Joris Geigenmueller
Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) conference - Oral Presentation Award
Joshua Lowe
Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Fellowship
Hilary Yong
AVANT Foundation Transformation Grant
Bruno van Swinderen
Dementia Australia Research Foundation (DARF) Project Grants
Esteban Cruz
Shanley Longfield
Dean’s Award for Outstanding HDR Thesis (2024), UQ
Matthew Kenna
Ting Xiang Lim
Shanley Longfield
Benjamin Matthews
Svetlina Vasileva
Hilary Yong
EMBO Neurobiology meeting, shared Best Presentation Award
Lachlan Lu
Indian Institute of Science Young Alumni Award
Pranesh Padmanabhan
International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN) Travel Award
(To attend the ISN-ASN 2025 Meeting in New York, USA)
Hilary Yong
SVAR Complement Excellence Award 2025
John Lee
PhD Conferrals
Saber Abd Elkader
Hamzeh Ahmad Mohammad Al Masri
Evan Bailey
Tobias Bluett
Juan Botto
Alison Carlisle
Chiemeka Chinaka
Maria Ferreiro
Elizabeth Haines
Thomas Hedl
Sean Keating
Linfeng Liu
Sylvie Loneragan
Junyan Lyu
Md. Rezanur Rahman
Haobin Ren
Yi Rong
Abigail Shaughnessy
Caleb Stone
Sven Storch
Jingyao Xia
Xiangyu Zhou
Promotions
To Level E (Professor):
Victor Anggono
Fatima Nasrallah
Steven Zuryn
To Level D (Associate Professor):
Nathalie Dehorter
Tara Walker
To Level C (Senior Research Fellow):
Itia Favre-Bulle
To Level B (Research Fellow):
Liyu Chen
Esteban Cruz
Gerhard Leinenga
QBI Emerging Leader
Itia Favre-Bulle
UniQuest Pathfinder Proof of Concept Program
Fred Meunier
Susannah Tye
UQ Award for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion
Vikesh Anand
UQ Early Career Researcher Development: Knowledge Exchange and Translation (UQ ECR Kx&T) Fund
Laeticia Coles
UQ HMBS EMCR Travel Award
Mia Langguth
Young Scientist Program 2025 Travel Fellowship
To attend the 31st FAOBMB (Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists) Conference in Busan, South Korea)
Anson Tan
QBI 10-year Service Awards
Joan Lawrence Endowment Award for High Achieving Women in Neuroscience
QBI Commitment to Diversity Award
Matilde Balbi
QBI Neuro-STAR Award
Daniel Blackmore
2025 QBI Art in Neuroscience Competition
Video competition
Runner up
Matthew Van De Poll
Van Swinderen lab
Winner
Alex McCann
Meunier lab
Image competition
Runner up
Embers of the Mind - Alison Carlisle
Winner
The Sphere of Sauron - Muhammed Syed
People’s Choice
After the Storm - Victor Vasquez Matsuda
QBI Best Student Publication
Runner-up
Jonathan Lee
Padbanabhan lab
Winner
DDHD2 provides a flux of saturated fatty acids for neuronal energy and function
Saber H Saber
Meunier lab
QBI Best Postdoctoral Publication
Proteostasis as a fundamental principle of Tau immunotherapy
Esteban Cruz
Götz lab