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Funding to find repurposed drugs to fight bacterial infections

Griffith University will use a $2.95 million NHMRC grant to take a unique focus on targeting sugar interactions to prevent and treat bacterial infections that cause meningitis, pneumonia and gastrointestinal infections. Professor Michael Jennings from Griffith’s Institute for Glycomics was recently awarded the funding for his research into discovering and exploiting glycointeractions to create new […]
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Griffith researchers draw more than $9m NHMRC funding

Advanced bionic limb development, malaria drug mechanisms, skin immune response to mosquito-borne infections among new Ideas Grants.
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Institute for Glycomics

Bourne Foundation Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy Facility Official Opening

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Bourne Foundation Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility, an institute core facility that has been rebuilt to house the world’s latest NMR instrumentation. With a significant donation from Bourne Foundation. The Bourne Foundation Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy Facility now houses a brand new 600MHz NMR Spectrometer with […]
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Griffith researchers draw more than $4.6 million in funding in Discovery Grants

Nine new Griffith-led ARC Discovery Projects awarded $3,622,738.
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Institute for Glycomics

Glycomics Week festivities at the Institute for Glycomics

The first week of October brought with it a flurry of activity at Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics as they celebrated their annual Glycomics Week. Glycomics Week is the Institute’s biggest and busiest week of the year and includes three major events: the Glycomics Public Forum, the Glycomics Student Forum, and the much-anticipated Institute for […]
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Celebrating the 2023 Institute for Glycomics Grand Ball

The 2023 Institute for Glycomics Grand Ball was held on Saturday 7 October at RACV Royal Pines Resort. The glamorous black-tie event welcomed over 400 guests who enjoyed a delicious three course meal, four-hour beverage package, exciting raffle and auction prizes, live entertainment all night, and an exclusive afterparty. Thanks to the support of event […]
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3 Good Health and Well Being

World-first human challenge trial to test efficacy of Strep A and rheumatic heart disease vaccine

Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics has received a $5 million philanthropic donation from the International Leducq Foundation to further the development of a Strep A vaccine.
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10 Reduced Inequalities

Lara Herrero receives a Prime Minister’s Prize for Science

Lara Herrero received the Prize for New Innovators in the 2023 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science at a ceremony in Canberra last night.
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17 Partnerships for the Goals

New Griffith University site for the Translational Science Hub brings global vaccine research and development to the Gold Coast

Sanofi has progressed its partnership with Griffith by officially opening its latest research site at the university’s Gold Coast campus.
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3 Good Health and Well Being

Vaccine via the nasal passage could be the new line of defence against Strep A

As Streptococcus A cases continue to be prevalent in Queensland and internationally, a new nasal vaccine could provide long-term protection from the deadly bacteria.
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3 Good Health and Well Being

Vaginal microbes could lead to a better understanding of HIV

Vaginal microbes are at the centre of a novel discovery that aims to investigate if these bacteria trap HIV or act as a courier service to deliver the virus to the host within the human body.
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3 Good Health and Well Being

Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics farewells Director Professor Mark von Itzstein AO

Griffith University is bidding a grateful farewell to community champion and Director of the Institute for Glycomics, Professor Mark von Itzstein AO. Professor von Itzstein will step down from his role as Director of the Institute for Glycomics, one of Australia’s flagship interdisciplinary translational biomedical research institutes, at the end of 2023. Griffith University’s Vice […]
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10 Reduced Inequalities

International Women’s Day Spotlights Innovation and Inclusivity at Griffith

From social justice leaders to health scientists, high achievers in aviation and tech entrepreneurs, Griffith University celebrates its bold and brilliant women this International Women’s Day. This year’s theme from United Nations Women Australia, ‘Cracking the Code’, honours those accelerating gender equality through inclusive innovation, research discoveries and digital technologies. Recipient of the Athena SWAN […]
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3 Good Health and Well Being

Sugars help to crack the ovarian cancer code

Griffith University researchers are making inroads in ovarian cancer research looking at early detection signs and how the disease spreads through the body.
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3 Good Health and Well Being

Griffith unlocking the secrets to Strep A virulence

Griffith University researchers have unlocked one of the secrets as to why some forms of Strep A are associated with severe invasive infection.
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Griffith researchers reveal big Ideas in latest funding win

Researchers awarded four NHMRC Ideas Grants worth more than $3.6 million.
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Griffith joins $280 million partnership to deliver mRNA vaccine outcomes

Queensland will become a global mRNA vaccine hub with global healthcare company Sanofi partnering with Griffith University and other leading research institutions to establish a world-first research centre in south east Queensland.
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17 ARC Discovery Projects for Griffith researchers in 2023

Griffith University researchers will lead 17 new Discovery Projects across a broad field of knowledge after being awarded over $7.735 million from the Australian Research Council.
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