Centenary Institute and major partner the Bank of Queensland address female scientist drop-out rate, with lucrative Gender Equity Early Career Award.

The challenges faced by women in science took centre stage at the panel discussion, ‘Breaking through: The unspoken barriers for women in medical research’.

Two Centenary Institute researchers—Professor Philip Hogg and Dr Alex Cole—have been awarded grants under the Tour de Cure cancer research funding scheme. The funding will support their groundbreaking research into melanoma, and aggressive cancers, including ovarian and pancreatic cancers.

Dr Chuck Bailey, Head of the Centre for Rare Diseases & Gene Therapy at the Centenary Institute, was recently interviewed by 2GB host Bill Woods.

A team led by Dr Chuck Bailey at the Centenary Institute has been awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grant to develop safer and more effective gene therapies.