{"id":590402,"date":"2026-04-07T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590402\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:00:08","slug":"uq-melanoma-expert-named-australias-most-innovative-researcher-by-nhmrc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590402\/","title":{"rendered":"UQ melanoma expert named Australia\u2019s most innovative researcher by NHMRC &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A University of Queensland researcher has been recognised for the transformative impact of their work to improve melanoma diagnosis at the NHMRC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhmrc.gov.au\/about-us\/nhmrc-awards\/research-excellence-awards\/2025-research-excellence-awards\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">2025 Research Awards for Excellence<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/about.uq.edu.au\/experts\/1918\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">H. Peter Soyer<\/a> received the Marshall and Warren Ideas Grant Award which recognises the nation\u2019s most innovative, potentially transformative, and highest-ranked recipient of an NHMRC Ideas Grant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Professor Soyer was honoured for his pioneering work saving lives through earlier detection of melanoma, which is Australia\u2019s third most common cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Supported by an Ideas Grant, Professor Soyer is using deep image analysis and molecular profiling to track melanoma and ultimately accelerate diagnosis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These awards rank applicants across NHMRC\u2019s major funding schemes, recognising research at the forefront of their respective fields within health and medicine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A University of Queensland researcher has been recognised for the transformative impact of their work to improve melanoma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-590402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}