Remarkable Research: Recent Episodes
QIMR Berghofer
Supporting and celebrating our remarkable researchers on International Women's Day.
Dr Bridget Barber is passionate about finding more effective treatments for malaria, one of the world’s most deadly diseases.
An infectious diseases physician at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Dr Barber also heads the Clinical Malaria Group at QIMR Berghofer.
She discusses the challenges of studying a global health issue, her insights into the importance of mentors, and the crucial decisions when embarking on a PhD project.
Supporting and celebrating our remarkable researchers on International Women's Day.
QIMR Berghofer’s Professor Adele Green has saved countless lives through her ground breaking skin cancer research over the last forty years.
Her research has helped shape iconic campaigns such as ‘Slip, Slop, Slap’, which defined a generation of people and educated and encouraged the community to cover up and use sunscreen.
Find out how she started her stellar research career, her journey to becoming an internationally renowned epidemiologist, and her most valued collaborators: the people of a small town in Queensland.
Rina Kumar had to make a difficult decision to leave her family in Fiji to further her career that led to a PhD scholarship in the Gut Health Lab Group at QIMR Berghofer. Rina opens up about her life as a PhD student: the times she thought about giving up, her fight against imposter syndrome, and what keeps her motivated.
Supporting and celebrating our remarkable researchers on International Women's Day.
Dr Andrea Henden is a clinician researcher – working as a transplant physician at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and a medical researcher in QIMR Berghofer. At QIMR Berghofer’s Translational Cancer Immunotherapy Laboratory, Dr Henden works to develop much-needed therapies to help her blood cancer patients in the clinic. This International Women's Day, she speaks to Clare Blake about her impressive 20-year career and the challenges women can face progressing careers in medicine and research.
Supporting and celebrating our remarkable researchers on International Women's Day.
QIMR Berghofer's first female Director and CEO Professor Fabienne Mackay is committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive research sector. A renowned immunologist, Professor Mackay shares her thoughts on creating a more equitable funding environment that supports all researchers to progress their careers and produce ground-breaking medical discoveries.
Supporting and celebrating our remarkable researchers on International Women's Day.
The influence of two men has helped shape Sheridan Helman’s medical research career. Her quest to find scientific answers to help her sick father took her from a career in tourism to studying medical science. Then a chance encounter with her future research mentor saw her explore the role of iron during pregnancy and infancy. Sheridan shares her somewhat accidental journey into science from hospitality and some valuable tips on how to get back into study after taking a gap year.