Professor Maher Gandhi will be appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Mater Research and Director of MRI-UQ, effective May 1 2019.

Mater Research and Mater Mothers' Hospitals representatives participated in the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Congress, aiming to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes.

A/Prof Samudragupta (Sam) Bora’s passion for improving health outcomes for children saw him travel to Africa to conclude phase one of his world first research into placental transfer of malaria.

Mater researcher and Director of the Stillbirth Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) Professor Vicki Flenady has been awarded $1.3 million through Federal Government funding.

Two female researchers in Queensland have been awarded strategic grants as a step forward in closing the research and academic gender gap.

Associate Professor Kristen Radford was awarded a 2019 Mater Research Strategic Grants for Outstanding Women.

Dr Sandy Richardson was awarded a 2019 Mater Research Strategic Grants for Outstanding Women.

The International Diabetes Federation 2019 Congress has selected Mater’s Professor David McIntyre to provide the prestigious ‘Stream Award Lecture’ at this year’s meeting.

A $40,000 grant has been awarded to the Mater Research Institute—University of Queensland (MRI-UQ) to develop a parent-version of the national clinical guidelines on care around stillbirth.

Mater Research—University of Queensland (MRI—UQ) Acting Director Professor Maher Gandhi has been awarded $3.6 million to improve treatment for relapsed lymphoma patients.

Dr Seth Cheetham has been awarded three grants to fund research projects addressing the role of genomic plasticity in cancer treatment.

Cognitive Neurologist Professor Peter Nestor has been appointed to the position of Clinical Program Leader of the Neurosciences and Cognitive Health Program at Mater.