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I feel lucky to be getting care at a hospital and medical research centre which does such excellent work - below is a sample of the research ongoing at the Royal Brisbane complex.
The Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) is one of the largest medical research institutes in the southern hemisphere, and is recognised worldwide for the quality of its research. Over the last 60 years, QIMR has broadened its scope to include the immunological, biological and molecular basis of a wide range of infectious diseases, cancers and other disorders. Other important research areas are in epidemiology, the study of the environmental, lifestyle & genetic factors that contribute to disease incidence among populations. It is currently Australia’s largest medical research institute, with over 700 scientists, students and support staff under one roof. QIMR works with the World Health Organization (WHO) and has close links with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA.
Over many years, QIMR has contributed substantially to the bank of knowledge on diseases worldwide. In 2001, QIMR demonstrated the first evidence of a genetic link to breast cancer predisposition.Technology developed by 2006 Australian of the Year Professor Ian Frazer, the late Dr Jian Zhou and their team from UQ’s Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research helped create world’s first cervical cancer vaccine, now available to women in Australia and the United States. Cervical cancer kills about 270,000 women worldwide each year.
For more on QIMR's cancer research, go to
http://www.qimr.edu.au/research/topics/cancer.html
2 comments:
Goodonya Nancy.
I attended a small series of lectures the other week in Perth and Ian Frazer was the keynote speaker. I thought he was fantastic though I may have been prejudiced by his accent...
mike
As long as they are taking extra good care of you!!!!!
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