QIMR Berghofer Senior Scientist Professor Nick Martin has been ranked 90
th in a list of the world’s most highly cited researchers.
Professor Martin is recognised as a world leader in the genetics of mental health disorders and psychological traits.
He heads QIMR Berghofer’s Genetic Epidemiology Research Group. He joined the Institute in 1986, and has contributed to more than 1400 scientific papers over his career.
Professor Martin has made major contributions to genetic research into anxiety, depression, alcoholism, melanoma and other conditions.
He founded the Australian Twin Registry and for decades has conducted research into twins to unravel the different roles of genetics and environment in various behavioural and psychological traits.
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Two QIMR Berghofer scientists awarded CSL Research Acceleration Initiative partnerships
Two QIMR Berghofer scientists will collaborate with leading global biotechnology company CSL on new immunological targets after being awarded Research Acceleration Initiative partnerships.
The head of the Immunology and Infection Laboratory, Professor Christian Engwerda, and the head of the Molecular Immunology Laboratory, Associate Professor Michelle Wykes, will each receive $500,000 over two years to conduct collaborative research projects with CSL.
As well as the funding, the partnerships also give the researchers access to CSL’s R&D experts.
CSL has awarded four partnerships nationally, with QIMR Berghofer receiving half of those.
By Ry Crozier on Feb 11, 2021 1:52PM
Working to establish files accessed.
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and Singtel are the latest large organisations to fall victim to the Accellion data breach.
QIMR Berghofer said in a statement that about 4 percent of data held on the file-sharing system - or 620MB in total - appeared to have been accessed by an unknown party on Christmas Day.
It used Accellion “to receive and share data from clinical trials of anti-malarial drugs” though it said no personally-identifiable information was in the documents on the system.
“These clinical trials are conducted with healthy volunteers,” QIMR Berghofer said.
Major medical research centre caught up in data breach
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One of Queensland’s major medical research facilities has been caught up in an international data breach, with non-identifiable patient data believed to have been accessed.
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute said it was investigating exactly how much data the third parties accessed as part of a wider breach of the Accellion file-sharing system.
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute is working to establish which files were accessed.
Accellion is an external company that bills itself as provider of secure file sharing services for large organisations, with QIMR using the service to share data with collaborators in what it thought was a secure way.