Research stories

Early-Career Researchers are here to change the game.

For over a decade, UQ Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR) has united state-of-the-art facilities with leading health professionals, clinicians and scientists with the goal of improving quality of life for patients. Acting Director Professor Jason Roberts says they have no intention of slowing down.

As a former paramedic, Dr Stacey Pizzino has witnessed disasters, mass casualties and vulnerable communities, but it is not these memories that have etched the deepest imprints on her life. Rather, it is the devastation caused by armed conflicts and the humanitarian complexities that follow war.

The study of the brain sits at the meeting point of medicine, biology and philosophy. Dr Rodrigo Suarez’s research at the School of Biomedical Sciences (SBMS) incorporates all of these disciplines, asking how our brains came to be, why we think the way we do and what it even means to be human.