You can help progress our research
You don't have to be a scientist to get involved with QBI. We offer a range of opportunities for everyday people to connect and progress our research and discoveries.
The foundation for all of our work is the funding we receive through a range of sources, including philanthropic donations from our generous supporters. There are many ways to give to QBI: directly, through planned giving, or holding fundraising events that entertain or challenge supporters as they dig deep to help us better understand the brain.
We also offer opportunities for students to learn directly from our inspiring researchers through lab placements, and for community members to tour our facilities and attend events. Finally, you can give one of the greatest gifts of all by volunteering for studies to advance treatments and diagnostics for brain diseases and disorders.
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What your donations fund
Through your support you are helping QBI solve the major neurological health challenges facing our community today
World leading research
Brightest scientific minds
Solutions to global health challenges
Discovery Research Endowment Fund
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QBI’s Discovery Research Endowment Fund supports scientists exploring the unknown, which will guide new research on finding cures for diseases or improving quality of life.
Community & school programs
Australian Brain Bee
The Australian Brain Bee Challenge (ABBC) is a competition for high school students in year 10 to learn about the brain and its functions, learn about neuroscience research, find out about careers in neuroscience and to dispel misconceptions about neurological and mental illnesses.
Volunteer for a research study
QBI offers the public the opportunity to become involved in our research
through volunteering in a range of our human studies.
Your help may be vital to solving some of humanity's greatest ailments
and answering some of the biggest questions we face.
Research in action
- 13 May 2019An informative session for patients and carers living with Parkinson’s Disease, Dystonia, Essential Tremor and Tourette’s Syndrome.
Coulson: Nerve Cell Survival
Group Leader
Professor Elizabeth Coulson
Group Leader in Dementia Research, Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research & ProfessorQueensland Brain InstituteHead of SchoolSchool Biomedical ScienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Researcher biography:Professor Elizabeth (Lizzie) Coulson did her undergraduate Honours degree at the University of Melbourne, majoring in Genetics and Biochemistry. Her PhD (1997) in the Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, with Professor Colin Masters, was on the normal function of the amyloid precursor protein of Alzheimer's disease. Following a year at the ZMBH, University of Heidelberg, Germany, she pursued postdoctoral work studying neuronal cell death in neurodegeneration and development at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institutewith Professor Perry Bartlett before being recruited in 2003 to the University of Queensland as a founding member of the Queensland Brain Institute. She was appointed Professor in 2015, joining the School of Biomedical Sciences and becoming Deputy Head of School in 2019. She maintains a 20% Queensland Brain Institutes appointment and is a member of the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research.
Her Lab webpage is: Coulson Lab - Neurotrophin - School of Biomedical Sciences ...
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Professor Elizabeth Coulson: Neurotrophins in Alzheimer’s diseaseThe Coulson laboratory is investigating how and why certain neurons die in neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and motor neuron disease (MND). Their work focusses on the p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR) and its role in neuronal loss, particularly the nerve cell degeneration that occurs in cholinergic neurons in the brain and spinal cord.
Research Members
Miss Bree Rumballe
Lab Manager/Research Assistant SBMSResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Students
Miss Jacinta Conroy
PhD StudentSchool of Biomedical SciencesResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Mr Thomas Georgeson
PhD StudentSchool of Biomedical SciencesResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Mr Tom Cleland
Honours StudentQueensland Brain InstituteResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:- Postdoctoral Research FellowQueensland Brain Institute
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