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.

As a recipient of last year’s Mater Research Grant for Outstanding Women, Dr Shelley Wilkinson  is passionate about supporting women to have healthy pregnancies and healthy babies.

As a recipient of last year’s Mater Research Grant for Outstanding Women, Dr Sumaira Hasnain is passionate about the development of women in science.

Mater Research is proud to announce that Professor Brian Gabrielli and Professor Jean-Pierre Levesque have been awarded research grants through Cancer Council Queensland.

Mater Research Institute-University of Queensland (MRI-UQ) has been awarded more than $10 million in National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Early Career Researcher (ECR) seeding grants, Dr Linda Gallo, in the biomedical category, and Dr Mary Ghazawy, in the clinical category. 

Researchers from Mater Research Institute-University of Queensland (MRI-UQ) have been awarded $2.86 million in National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding.

Two outstanding female researchers have been announced as the recipients of the first Mater Research grants for Outstanding Women.

To mark International Women’s Day, Mater Research has announced the introduction of strategic grants to support the work of outstanding female researchers at Mater.