From discovery to you

Professionals working with children and young people will be offered training in brain science in an Australia-first initiative between UQ and the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) through the Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership (TQKP). Thriving Kids Brain Builders is a neuroscience translation initiative being developed with QBI for people working across the health, education, social and community services, justice and housing sectors.

Dr Odette Leiter and Dr Tara Walker have discovered that platelets secrete a protein that rejuvenates neurons in aged mice in a similar way to physical exercise.

Dr Rodrigo Suarez has discovered that the extinct Tasmanian tiger had brain cells like other carnivorous marsupials, indicating that the internal structure of the brain is a better indicator of evolutionary relatedness between species than external appearances.