
Profiling a killer
Prof Glenn King, co-leader of our Discover theme, and his team are on the hunt to unravel the toxin arsenals…

Prof Rich Payne awarded 2020 Liversidge Lecture
The Liversidge Lecture for 2020 was awarded to Professor Richard Payne FRSN FRACI FRSC of the School of Chemistry of the University…

Prof Michelle Colgrave wins 2020 ICM Agrifood Award
Professor Michelle Colgrave has won the 2020 ICM Agrifood Award from the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) at…

Anti-inflammatory proteins from ticks
What's one good thing about ticks? That question may not seem to have a logical answer, but Charlotte Franck and…

2020 Fellows of the Academy of Science announced
Congratulations to Professor Kate Jolliffe FAA on election to the Australian Academy of Science for her world-leading contributions to organic…

CIPPS’ First Workshop
The first CIPPS workshop took place on the 18th and 19th of February 2020 in Brisbane. The workshop was attended…

The ARC Centre of Excellence is Funded!!
On Friday 25th of October 2019, the Australian Research Council announced that our centre was awarded funding for seven years…

Circular peptides featured on theconversation.com
In a recent article on theconversation.com, two scientists working under CIPPS director Professor David Craik explain how circular peptides called…

Tuberculosis drug breakthrough on the horizon.
Scientists from the Australian National University under the lead of CIPPS researcher Professor Colin Jackson have made a major breakthrough…

Major breakthrough in Antibiotic research
A team under the lead of CIPPS researcher Max Cryle have discovered how a crucial step in the biosynthesis of…

Stroke drug lead under development
Professor Glenn King of the University of Queensland is developing a new drug that could safe many lives and improve…

CIPPS scientists discover blood vessel relaxing molecule
As part of an international team, CIPPS scientist Richard Payne and his staff have discovered a new molecule that relaxes…

CIPPS researchers named on Periodic Table of younger chemists
It has been 150 years since the periodic table of elements has been first created and to celebrate this breakthrough…

Scientists crack the genetic code of koalas
An international team scientists – including CIPPS researcher Katherine Belov – have successfully sequenced the full koala genome. A total…