Awards and achievements

Queensland Brain Institute researchers will help develop some of Australia’s most exciting medical bionic discoveries after being announced as major winners at this year’s Bionics Challenge.

Discovery research into the communication between brain cells could reveal the unknowns surrounding the origins of learning and memory.

A PhD student pushing the boundaries of technology to understand our brain’s response to fear has won a Westpac Future Leader Scholarship.

A QBI neuroscientist has been awarded for his research using a microscopic worm to help understand how our nervous system is protected from damage.

QBI welcomes 11 new Summer Research Scholars.

After a national search, Dr Lilach Avitan has been named a Superstar of STEM.

Neurosurgeon and researcher Associate Professor Terry Coyne has been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM), as part of the Queen’s Birthday honours

Professor Perry Bartlett, QBI's founding director, has been named the 2017 Queensland Senior Australian of the Year.

Two QBI researchers have been elected Fellows of the prestigious Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

QBI's Laura Fenlon has won the Queensland Women in Technology PhD Career Start Award for her neuroscience research.