Month: January 2007

Griffith University is to become the Queensland home of Australia’s newest cancer research centre. The seven-year project will be partly funded by a $37.6m Commonwealth Cooperative Research Centre grant, and will utilise the expertise of Griffith’s drug discovery team to identify new treatments to halt the development and spread of Australia’s biggest killers; breast, prostate, […]

Griffith University graduate Tania Major has been named as Young Australian of the year. At just 25, the Cairns-based youth advocate has already established herself as a leading voice for indigenous people and is the youngest person ever elected to the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Commission (ATSIC). She has become known for her honest […]

More than 400 past students and staff are expected to attend the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University’s Reunion Weekend to be held from February 16-18. The weekend marks the exact dates of the Conservatorium’s 50th anniversary and will begin with a special Alumni Jazz Café on Friday night, a reunion dinner on Saturday and a progressive […]

Listen to Professor Mark von Itzstein, the Executive Director of the Institute for Glycomics discuss Australia’s vulnerability to an influenza pandemic and our preparedness to respond. Many of the world’s leading experts in the field agree that an influenza pandemic is not a matter of “if”, but “when”. Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics, in partnership […]