In March 2018, Dr Erin Wilson won the “Outstanding new presenter” award at the Australasian Gynaecological Endoscopy and Surgery Society XXVIII Annual Scientific Meeting.

Congratulations to Helen Liley for her promotion to Professor by The University of Queensland.

Mater Research is undertaking the largest study of induction of labour ever undertaken, here at the Mater Mothers’ Hospitals.

A team of researchers led by Professor Gregory Monteith from Mater Research and UQ School of Pharmacy have developed a new way to visualise breast cancer cells as they die.

Mater researcher and Betty McGrath Fellow Dr Tatjana Ewais has received funding to progress a unique research project into mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. 

Every year at least 18,000 Australians are diagnosed with sepsis, with around 5000 losing their lives.  

A landmark Queensland-led study into the emergency care and management of infants with bronchiolitis is set to change the way the disease is treated in hospitals internationally.

Dr Cameron Turtle, a leading hematology oncologist and bone marrow transplant specialist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center returned to Mater Research to share his latest research.

Dr Felicity Davis has been named the inaugural recipient of the Equity Trustees Cancer Award as part of the Equity Trustees Medical Health Partnership Program. 

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

Associate Professor Katharina Ronacher was awarded a Mater Research Strategic Grant for Outstanding Women on International Women’s Day.

Professor Josephine Forbes was awarded a Mater Research Strategic Grant for Outstanding Women on International Women’s Day.