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Congratulations: Mr Ali Zailaa

Mr Ali Zailaa was awarded First Prize for the presentation entitled "Brain Mapping of Clinical Acupuncture Effects With High Field Functional MRI (fMRI)" given at the recent 3rd Annual Australia - New Zealand Chapter Meeting of the SMRT (held 15-16th November, Sydney).

Prof Ian Brereton, Director of CMR

Prof. Stephen Walker, Executive Dean of EPSA and Prof. David Siddle, DVC(R), have announced that from the 1st July 2008 Ian has been formally appointed as Director of the Centre.

Congratulations: Emeritus Prof David Doddrell AM

Congratulations to David Doddrell, former Director of CMR, who was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia on June 9th Queen's Birthday Honours List. The citation was for service to science in the field of magnetic resonance as an academic and researcher.

Brain Bee Challenge: QBI-UQ promotes student interest in Neuroscience

This year more than 9000 high school students from across Australia and New Zealand took part in round one of the competition held in March. Students took part in further rounds at UQ 24-27th June. CMR hosted 120 students who enjoyed presentations and practical demonstrations by Prof Graham Galloway, Dr Gary Cowin and Mr Don Maillett on the S200 and 190 magnets. The feedback was very positive frm all students and their leaders on the day.

Thanks to Graham, Gary and Don for giving their time and effort to ensure a successful day while marshalling such a large number of students safely through the Centre.

Grant Success

Congratulations to the following CMR staff who were successful in obtaining ARC and NHMRC funding ($4,964,250):

Idriss Blakey
Ian Brereton
Gary Cowin
Greig de Zubicaray
Marlies Friese
Graham Galloway
Heping Liu
Katie McMahon
Stephen Rose
Deming Wang
Andrew Whittaker

DPO878615 ARC: BLAKEY, I., Chirilla, T.V., Hill, D.J., Hawker, C.J. Generation of peptidomimetic surfaces for biomaterials applications. 2008: $190,000; 2009: 190,000; 2010: $180,000.

LPO882551 ARC: WHITTAKER, A.K., BLAKEY, I., LIU, H., Zimmerman, P.A.. Double exposure photoresists for the 32 and 22 nm lithographic nodes. 2008: $315,000; 2009: 192,5000; 2010: $242,500.

LE0882345: ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities. Mattingley, J.B., Cunnington, R., Hester, R.L., Bellgrove, M.A., Lipp, O.V., Wallis, G.M., BRERETON, I.M., GALLOWAY, G.J. DE ZUBICARAY, G.I., Crozier, S., Colditz, P.B., Jull, G.A., Hodges, P.W., Coltheart, M., Crain, S., Williams, M.A. A 3.0 Tesla MRI system for human cognitive neuroscience research. $650,000.

519716: NHMRC Project: Fraser, J., FRIESE, M., COWIN, G., WANG, D. GALLOWAY, G., Schibler, A. Hyperpolarized helium MRI to quantify regional lung damage and ventilation for improvement of recruitment strategy. $437,500.

510106 NHMRC Project: Piguet, O., Hodges, J., ROSE, S., Miller, L. Clinical and biological markers of disease presentation and progression in early frontotemporal dementia. $487,500.

519220 NHMRC Project: Mathias, J., Bigler, E., Bowden, S., Rosenfeld, J., Taylor, D., Vink, R., ROSE, S. Diagnostic and prognostic evaluation of diffusion tensor imaging and cognitive function after traumatic brain injury. $839,250.

496682 NHMRC Project: Wright, M., DE ZUBICARAY, G., Thompson, P., McMAHON, K. Unravelling genetic influences on the human brain. $712,500.

DP0880556: ARC. Copland, D.A., Nickels, L.A., McMAHON, K.,, Angwin, A.J. Approved neurocognitive substrates of naming facilitation in aphasia. 2008: $102,000; 2009: $130,000; 2010: $91,000.

DP0878630: Dunn, J.C., Dennis, S.J., DE ZUBICARAY, G.I. Single and dual process models of recognition memory: reconciliation of behavioural, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging data. 2008: $65,000; 2009: $65,000; 2010: $75,000.