Congratulations to the AITHM team!

Congratulations to the AITHM team!

Congratulations to Dr Mic Smout and Associate Professor Jamie Seymour, who have won a Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation grant for their work on jellyfish venom. The best medical treatments for big box jellyfish envenoming is still uncertain and this research will screen for new drug and antivenom treatments using a high-throughput real-time cardiomyocyte (heart muscle cell) assay.

Congratulations as well to Dr Sandip Kamath, who also won a Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation Grant to improve allergy diagnostics for adults and children in Far North Queensland with shellfish allergy.

AITHM also congratulates Leon Tribolet and Ivana Ferreria, students in Professor Loukas’ lab, who were both recently awarded their PhD degrees.

Congratulations to Ms Martina Koeberl, for her award in the best poster prize category in the Food Allergy Section at the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA) conference in Adelaide. Martina's presentation was entitled "Food allergen quantification – mass spectrometry as alternative to biologicals methods".