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Australian Universities collaboration leads to the launch of Resseptor Therapeutics to tackle inflammatory diseases

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Dr Steve Daley, expert immunologist with QUT’s Centre for Immunology and Infection Control is the co-founding scientist at Resseptor Therapeutics, a new Australian biotech company which has launched with an initial AU$2.25 million investment to develop new therapies targeting autoimmune diseases and cancer. Resseptor aims to develop new…

Queensland allergy expert welcomes next gen pollen monitoring

Queenslanders’ with hayfever and asthma are set to benefit from the first high-precision, automated, pollen -monitoring instrument in the southern hemisphere, and its first use in a subtropical region. Professor Janet Davies, National Allergy Centre of Excellence (NACE) Respiratory and Discovery Hub Lead and QUT (Queensland University

Fazeleh is a finalist in research in focus

PhD Candidate Fazeleh Etebar has been selected as a finalist  QUT photography competition “Research in Focus”. The images must be original visual representation of unique research methods, practices and findings of QUT research. Blossom of the eye     This is a confocal fluorescence microscopy image of mouse retina. The colours…

New technology binds Covid-19 virus to cotton textiles

QUT scientists biologists Dr Laura Navone, Professor Robert Speight and CIIC Director & virologist Prof Kirsten Spann has developed a technology that is proven to bind and capture the SARS-CoV-2 virus onto cotton textiles and prevent cell infection.  The novel  technology has been patented and  the finding published in Communications…

Study shows hay fever & asthma sufferers the when & where of peak pollen allergy

In Australia, grass pollen is the main outdoor trigger for hay fever and allergic asthma. Professor Janet Davies who leads QUT CIIC  Allergy Research Group and the national AusPollen Partnership, which is an NHMRC funded four year study. AusPollen partners (2016–2020) generated the first standardized pollen records at four sites across…