Queensland Tropical Health Alliance researcher Professor Alex Loukas, James Cook University, has won a 2012 Fulbright Senior Scholarship. Professor Loukas will spend three months at the University of California-Irvine through his Scholarship to work in the U.S. with Dr Phil Fel…
The science behind tropical vaccine development at Griffith University received a boost today with a funding grant of over $17m from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). The funding, which comprises the largest program grant to be awarded by the organisatio…
Breakthrough in malaria research looks to body's immune cells 23-November-2011 Groundbreaking research from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research is set to pave the way for the development of new malaria drugs and vaccines. QTHA researcher Dr Michelle Wykes and her tea…
The development of new antimalarials which overcome the long-fought challenges of drug resistance is the focus of promising research at Griffith University. A QTHA research team from the Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies has identified a new compound class whic…
31 October, 2011 A James Cook University and Queensland Tropical Health Alliance team has received a $2.7 million boost to its research on ways to detect and strengthen weak arteries, the leading cause of aneurysms. Professor Jonathan Golledge, Head of JCU's Vascular Biology U…
Queensland Tropical Health Alliance researchers from James Cook University have been awarded over $500,000 in funding by the National Health and Medical Research Centre (NHMRC). Prof Alan Clough, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at JCU in Cairns, with his colleagu…
Medical and health professionals, scientists, students, and vector-borne disease program managers will attend a master class in dengue and malaria at James Cook University in Cairns next week (26-30 September). Presented by JCU and Queensland Tropical Health Alliance (QTHA) res…
Global Health solutions through Queensland Tropical Health Alliance Scientists from the Queensland Tropical Health Alliance (QTHA) and the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative are meeting for the first time at James Cook University in Cairns Wednesday September 14th to …
Scientists from the Queensland Tropical Health Alliance and the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative are meeting for the first time today at Eskitis Institute, Griffith University to discuss using immunity to control infectious diseases. "This meeting brings together sc…
Leading scientific journal Nature has today published two papers describing the results of biological control field trials where wild mosquito populations were manipulated to suppress dengue virus transmission. Queensland Tropical Health Alliance (QTHA) researcher Professor Sc…
Cairns, Tropical North Queensland, usually a community known for its natural beauty and coral reef, for the past nine days has been a hub of activity and host to over 400 scientists and health professionals who have been debating and sharing ideas and new knowledge about parasit…
Queensland Tropical Health Alliance (QTHA) scientists will debate the malaria eradication agenda at the network's inaugural scientific conference on July 16-17 at the Pullman Reef Casino Hotel in Cairns, Australia. The QTHA brings together, within one network, world-class resea…
Treasurer and Minister for State Development Andrew Fraser will launch the Queensland Tropical Health Alliance (QTHA) and its new medical research laboratory at James Cook University's Cairns campus on Thursday July 14. Mr Fraser said the Queensland Tropical Health Alliance…
Professor Michael Good has been on a 25-year quest to develop a vaccine for malaria, which infects up to 500 million people each year and kills anywhere between 1 million and 3 million of them. In August 2009, Professor Good (AO) won Australia's top award for science le…
Seventy per cent of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are either vector borne or zoonotic - that means that today humans catch infections from animals, and vice versa, on a never-before experienced scale. Out of this realisation, the "One Health" theme was b…
Associate Professor Alan Clough will present an overview of this research at Thursday's Science at the Courthouse, to be broadcast live on ABC Far North, 9th June 2011. Reducing alcohol-related violence Researchers at James Cook University are studying Cairns as a model for…
James Cook University researcher and Queensland Tropical Health Alliance affiliate, Professor Alex Loukas described the discovery of vaccines against two of the most crippling diseases of the tropics, hookworm and schistosomiasis which, together, infect hundreds of millions of p…
The Queensland Tropical Health Alliance (QTHA) Research Committee has recently endorsed eight exciting new projects that will significantly improve the health and wellbeing of people living in the tropics. Development of novel therapeutics to control HIV-1 remains a pre…
Professor Nick Smith has joined James Cook University (JCU) and the Queensland Tropical Health Alliance (QTHA) after 14 years at the University of Technology, Sydney. Nick says, of his move to Tropical Queensland, "It is a happy coincidence of timing and opportunity: JCU is rapi…
QIMR researchers Tim Hurst, Michelle Gatton and Michael Creevey have been funded $132,500 by Queensland Health to further develop the VEDS (Vector-borne Disease early detection and Surveillance) System - a Queensland-wide web-based system for the timely reporting of surveillan…
Professor Louis Schofield has been appointed as the foundation Director of the Queensland Tropical Health Alliance. Louis is an International Research Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and co-founder of Ancora Pharmaceuticals Inc. He shares the Directorship of …
Tropical diseases kill tens of thousands of people each year, but a research breakthrough by an Australian scientist could help reduce this number significantly. Queensland-based diseases expert, Dr Mark Pearson, has invented and developed a ground-breaking vaccine to fight…
The Queensland Tropical Health Alliance brings together researchers across James Cook University, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology with the aim of reducing the burden of tropical diseases and improving the heal…