Last month the CIIC HDR group completed a professional development workshop facilitated by QUT careers specialist Karen Cavu (FHEA). This was a great session and incredibly useful for the HDR group, Many thanks to Karen for sharing her knowledge and expertise, we hope to continue this program with the group in 2026…
Congratulations to Dr Adi Idris who has been successful in securing a National Industry PhD Program Award. PhD candidate Muskan Muskan and industry partner Gene Company, will undertake the project, Developing extracellular vesicle-based RNA therapeutics for targeting Human T cell Leukaemia Virus type 1 (HTLV-1): A solution for…
The recent 2025 CIIC symposium celebrated the career of Professor Ken Beagley, CIIC Reproductive Infection and Immunity Research Group Leader, who will be retiring in early 2026. Ken’s remarkable career and expertise spans mucosal and reproductive immunology, with a focus on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) particularly chlamydia…
Celebrating Reproductive Health Research at CIIC CIIC Centre Director Professor Kirsten Spann invites you to the Centre for Immunology and Infection Control (CIIC) annual research symposium. This event will celebrate research achievements and be an opportunity to network with colleagues. The focus of the 2025 event will be reproductive…
CIIC are delighted to congratulate CIIC postdoctoral research fellow Dr Saeideh Hajighasemi, a researcher in the Allergy Research Group led by Professor Janet Davies, on being awarded a AIFA Viatris Early Career Researcher Grant, announced at the recent ASCIA Annual Conference held in Brisbane and hosted by the Australasian Society of…
RADS is a research initiative exploring Researchers’ knowledge, Attitudes, and practices about health research Data Sharing in allergy. Complete the survey Survey closes on Tuesday 30th September 2025…
Title: “Microbial diversity in mosquito vectors of encephalitic flaviviruses and impact on a novel biocontrol” Application closing date: 30th of May 2025 What you will receive: You’ll receive a stipend scholarship of $33,637 per annum for a maximum duration of 3.5 years while undertaking a QUT PhD. There is also the possibility of an…
The QUT Centre for Immunology and Infection Control (CIIC) is currently establishing a CIIC Consumer Advisory Group to aid the planning and development of their research. CIIC is seeking both consumers with lived experience, and those with a professional clinical/health background who have an interest in our centre’s research, to be an…
The Centre for Immunology & Infection Control celebrated HDR research at the first HDR Dialogues event of the year last week at Kelvin Grove, with presenters Jahirul Islam, Tristen Jackson, M.S., Jeimy Jimenez Loayza, Mary Ann Zajackowski and Kate Zimmermann all providing an update on their projects. The sessions also provide a valuable…
A new trial is aiming to reduce symptoms and improve the quality of life of young Australians with hay fever, the country’s most common allergic disease. To help tackle this chronic condition, 17 general practices and allergy clinics across Australia have partnered with the National Allergy Centre of Excellence (NACE), hosted at Murdoch…
CIIC recently welcomed Dr Yvette Ong to the centre. Dr. Yvette Ong recently completed her PhD in Microbiology from The University of Queensland (UQ) in 2024, which focused on understanding the complex regulatory network of key virulence factors in uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC). Yvette will be working with Professor Greg Cook on…
CIIC researchers Associate Professor Sónia Troeira Henriques and Dr Aurelie Benfield from the Peptide Therapeutics and Membrane Biology Research Group located at the Translational Research Institute (TRI) have discovered a potential breakthrough in the fight against drug-resistant melanoma. Their work reveals how peptides derived from a…