Nancy Frates, mother of Pete Frates, whose viral video kickstarted the Ice Bucket Challenge, will talk about the phenomenon at the Motor Neurone Disease Symposium.
Maintaining world-class research equipment at the Queensland Brain Institute is all part of a day’s work for fitter and turner Ethan Park, who has been named MIGAS Queensland Apprentice of the Year.
Research at The University of Queensland has found that using a vastly cheaper strategy of genetic analysis can be almost as efficient as a more expensive method.
Brother and sister duo, Michael and Deanna Iannantuono, are taking up the challenge to raise funds for QBI by running in this year’s Sunday Mail Suncorp Bank Bridge to Brisbane.
Researchers from QBI will be running alongside many people touched by brain disease when they join Team QBI in this year’s Sunday Mail Suncorp Bank Bridge to Brisbane charity run on Sunday, 30 August.
Queensland will host 23 of the world’s brightest high school students for the 2015 International Brain Bee neuroscience competition in Cairns from 20-26 August.
Set aside Sunday 30 August in your diary and join Team QBI as the Queensland Brain Institute races for neuroscience research at the Sunday Mail Suncorp Bank Bridge to Brisbane on 30 August.