School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research-to-Impact Talks

SPPS Research-to-Impact talks are presentations of high-quality scholarly work with broad appeal and research impact.

The wider School community is invited to attend, including academic and professional staff, special guests, visitors, as well as HDR, postgraduate, and undergraduate students.

Contacts

Damara McAndrew

Prof Paola Luciani, University of Bern: Patient-centric lipid-based therapeutic approaches to tackle inflammation and fibrosis

3 October 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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A/Prof Kathryn Steadman, SPPS, UQ: Vapes in pharmacies: therapeutic and legislative update

29 August 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr. Erin Emery-Tiburcio, Rush University Medical Center - Improving Healthcare: The 4Ms of Age-Friendly Behavioral Health

23 May 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Emily Bryan - UQ Centre for Clinical Research: The ARC Hub for Antimicrobial Resistance: promoting cross-disciplinary research

2 May 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Susan O'Brien, Chris Downs, and Kasra Sabermanesh - UQ Food and Beverage Accelerator (FaBA) - Introduction to Australia’s Food and Beverage Accelerator

4 April 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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This talk introduces Australia’s Food and Beverage Accelerator (FaBA). Hosted by UQ, FaBA is one of six $50M Trailblazer grants awarded by the Federal Department of Education in 2022. FaBA is a key initiative bringing together top university researchers and industry experts to drive innovation in food and beverage manufacturing. FaBA offers a range of programs designed to help businesses and researchers create new products, technologies, and solutions. We will showcase FaBA and discuss how FaBA may present opportunities for researchers from SPPS.

Habib Torfi, CEO and Founder - Invitrix

14 March 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Exosomes as Therapeutic Agents: Advances and Future Prospects in Regenerative Medicine and Cosmetic Industry
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Associate Professor Sumaira Hasnain & Associate Professor Emma Hamilton-Williams

25 October 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Join Associate Professor Sumaira Hasnain & Associate Professor Emma Hamilton-Williams as they discuss their respective topics "Resolution of Stress in Chronic Disease" and "New approaches for type 1 diabetes treatment and prevention".
Professor Chamindie Punyadeera

Saliva Diagnostics and Liquid biopsy: realizing precision medicine in chronic disease and cancer management - Professor Chamindie Punyadeera

30 August 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Precision medicine is revolutionizing cancer diagnosis and treatment. Saliva diagnostics, spotlighted during the Covid-19 pandemic, due to its non-invasive nature and the ability to collect multiple samples even from people living in rural and remote communities.
Dr Kristie Weir

Deprescribing, decision-making and communication: An international perspective - Dr Kristie Weir

24 May 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Kristie Weir, a research fellow at the University of Sydney School of Public Health provides an overview of her research portfolio which has diverse methodologies including multi-country surveys, experimental studies, typologies, and intervention development.
Dr Adi Idris

Developing RNA-based therapeutics against emerging respiratory viruses - Dr Adi Idris, School of Biomedical Sciences, QUT

18 April 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Adi Idris from the School of Biomedical Sciences, QUT, discusses how RNA biologics are now emerging as realistic and achievable clinically translatable treatment modalities for a range of human diseases. Importantly, respiratory viruses are amenable to gene therapy-based targeting.

The Expanding Roles of Pharmacists in Research, Patient Care, and Public Health and Its Impact on Pharmacy Education – The UCSF Perspective

28 September 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Presented by Prof Sharon Youmans from The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Pharmacy; this seminar focuses on the way pharmacy education must respond and transform to prepare pharmacists to address 21st century healthcare needs of our communities; from the molecule to the bedside and beyond.
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Dr Seth Cheetham - The limitless potential of mRNA drugs

7 March 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Trace the history of mRNA drugs, the capabilities of UQ’s BASE mRNA facility and novel applications of mRNA technologies with Dr Seth Cheetham from the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

Professor Sid Patanwala - Using pharmacy practice to drive research in emergency and critical care

28 October 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Nagham Ailabouni and Dr Jared Miles

14 October 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Nathalie Bock - Bioengineered microtissue models as drug testing platforms for cancer research

7 October 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Snehlata Kumari - NF-kB and cell death signalling pathways: key regulators of skin inflammation

23 September 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Esther W.Y. Chan - Application of big data research in the evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine safety

16 September 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Craig Munns - Management of Paediatric Bone Disorders: New Evidence and New Therapies

26 August 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Amirali Popat - Overcoming biological barriers using precision nanomedicine – My story and the importance of collaboration in Drug Delivery Science

12 August 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Rink-Jan Lohman and Dr Karnaker Reddy Tupally - Design and development of novel, short, stable dynorphin-based opioid agonists for safer analgesic therapy

17 June 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Joy Wolfram - Extracellular vesicles for therapeutic and diagnostic applications

3 June 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Terry Hebert - Tracking disease-relevant signalling events- from the single cell to the living brain

27 May 2022 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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Professor Nina Barnett - A person-centred approach to pharmacy practice

20 May 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Larisa Labzin - Inflammation in acute respiratory viral infections (COVID-19 and Influenza)

6 May 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Iman Azimi - Targeting calcium signalling pathways in brain cancer and cellular ageing

29 April 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Joanna Harnett - Gluten related disorders: The gluten free diet and the microbiome

22 April 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Ran Wang - Targeting Th17 cells to treat inflammatory and autoimmune diseases

1 April 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Nigel McMillan - Effective antivirals to SARS-CoV-2 – our missing link

17 September 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Josephine Forbes - The not so "mighty" chondrion: Lessons learned from young people with diabetes

10 September 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Michael Barras - Developing a collaborative research culture in Metro South Health

3 September 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Sanjay Garg - Development of a novel contraceptive from concept to US FDA approval and marketing

13 August 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Gary Chan - Adjusting for time-varying confounders using IPTW for causal inference

30 July 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Laurence Cheung - New therapeutic strategies for children with high-risk leukaemia by dissecting and targeting the bone marrow microenvironment

7 May 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Ben Colagiuri - Developing strategies to inhibit the nocebo effect

23 April 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Francine Marques - Targeting the microbial pharmacists within us to lower blood pressure

16 April 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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