{"id":81536,"date":"2025-08-14T06:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/81536\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T06:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:38:12","slug":"10-uq-researchers-receive-tall-poppy-science-awards-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/81536\/","title":{"rendered":"10 UQ researchers receive Tall Poppy Science Awards – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten UQ researchers have been awarded Young Tall Poppy Science Awards, celebrating their research impact and passion for inspiring young people to pursue STEM careers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The awards recognise their contributions to scientific research to address societal challenges, as well as their ability to communicate the power of their research to the community.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The UQ 2025 Tall Poppy Science Award recipients for Queensland are:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Associate Professor Jasneek Chawla<\/a> \u2013 understanding the relationship between sleep and long-term cognitive and behavioural outcomes in children with a neurodisability, particularly Down Syndrome.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dr Abbas Shafiee<\/a> \u2013\u00a0improving knowledge of stem cells to treat human diseases, including the discovery of a new stem cell-based platform to model and treat skin disorders.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dr Merja Joensuu<\/a> \u2013 understanding how brain fats support cognition and how targeting these fats could treat inherited brain disorders, nerve paralysis, and viral infections.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dr Ruirui Qiao<\/a> \u2013 advancing disease research and therapeutic testing by developing microfluidic platforms that create more accurate, human-like tissue models.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dr Xin Yu<\/a> \u2013 improving computer vision and machine learning processes in line with human behaviour, such as recognising actions in videos and understanding sign language.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The winner of the esteemed Queensland Young Tall Poppy of the Year will be revealed at an award ceremony on 9 September at the Queensland Museum.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Established in 2009, the annual Awards are hosted by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science (AIPS) in partnership with the Department of the Environment, Science, Tourism and Innovation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten UQ researchers have been awarded Young Tall Poppy Science Awards, celebrating their research impact and passion for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[200,79],"class_list":["post-81536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-genetics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}