UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award Winners - 2005

Seven promising young academics have been granted a total of $450,000 by The University of Queensland through an annual award scheme that promotes early career researchers and their projects. The University led the nation in fostering promising research when it introduced these awards for staff in 1999.

The following 2005 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award winners were announced on Thursday 22 September, 2005:

UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award Winners - 2005 section

Dr Andrew Griffiths, UQ Business School

You may have heard about the effect of El Nino on the environment, but what about its impact on big business? UQ researcher Dr Andrew Griffiths is one of the first in the world to study corporate resilience and adaptation to long-term g...

Dr Frederic Meunier, School of Biomedical Science

Botox, better known for its use in smoothing facial wrinkles, is playing an important role in UQ research on nerve cell communication. The research is exploring basic nerve-cell function, minute changes which underlie memory and learnin...

Dr Michele Sterling, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

New UQ research will examine the psychological and physical aspects of whiplash to help chronic sufferers. Lecturer in physiotherapy, Dr Michele Sterling, has received a $50,000 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award to examine the tra...

Dr Paul Meredith, School of Physical Sciences

Electrical parts made of soft, durable plastic, and even a flexible television screen, could soon replace silicon chips and toxic metals in consumer goods if Dr Paul Meredith has his way. Many plastics and polymers are better known as i...

Dr Rachel Parker, School of Political Science and International Studies

Australia is under-performing in the new and highly profitable knowledge economy, according to an award-winning UQ public policy researcher. Dr Rachel Parker, from the School of Political Science and International Studies, has warned that...

Dr Rod Rietze, Queensland Brain Institute

Stem cells have long been described as the Holy Grail for bioscience researchers. These amazing cells have the potential to develop into many different cell types in the body and also have the potential to revolutionise medical science....

Dr Steve Johnston, School of Animal Sciences

A UQ scientist is to establish the world’s largest echidna research centre with the help of a UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award. Dr Steve Johnston, senior lecturer and reproductive biologist in the School of Animal Sciences,...

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