Conference Highlights: CIPPS 2022
For our final conference highlight of the year, we are reflecting on our very own CIPPS Annual Conference! Last month,…
Conference Highlights: EPS 2022
This month we are reflecting on the 36th European Peptide Symposium & 12th International Peptide Symposium which took place in…
Professor Michelle Colgrave, FTSE
CIPPS is thrilled that Chief Investigator Professor Michelle Colgrave has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of…
Conference Highlights: RACI 2022
This month we are reflecting on the RACI National Congress which took place in Brisbane last July. Held every 5…
Our Fantastic Future Fellows!
Congratulations to CIPPS research fellow Dr Conan Wang (UQ) and Associate Investigator Dr Christoph Nitsche (ANU) who were awarded ARC…
Conference Highlights: The Australian Peptide Conference 2022
With a number of CIPPS members now travelling internationally for conferences, we have taken a moment to reflect on some of the…
Celebrating Science Week
The great spectacle that was National Science Week is officially over. We have packed away our banners and games and…
Blast-off for CIPPS!
On Monday August 21st, CIPPS had the great privilege of being launched officially by Senator the Hon Anthony Chisholm, Senator…
Conference Highlights: inSTEM 2022
An interview with Dr Rebecca Frkic, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Research School of Chemistry at The Australian National University. Written by…
Spotlight on: Cassidy Whitefield
Cassidy Whitefield is a PhD candidate working at the ANU under the supervision of Professor Colin Jackson. Cassidy grew up…
Recognised by RACI
Two of our Sydney-based CIPPS members have been recognised by the Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology (MCCB) Division of the…
CIPPS in the Academy
Professor Kathy Belov AO from The University of Sydney has been elected as a fellow of the Australian Academy of…
Celebrating success at the APC and Solid Phase Meeting!
Two major peptide conferences were held on the Gold Coast this week, the Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis Meeting and the…
Liversidge Lecture
Our deputy-director Professor Richard Payne was awarded the prestigious Liversidge Lecture from the Royal Society of NSW in 2020. After…
2021 Annual Report published
Our 2021 Annual Report has been published that showcases many great stories and photos from our team. Thanks also to…
CIPPS2022 Research Retreat is a wrap
What a wonderful and productive few days! 24 thought provoking talks from our CIs and postdocs; professional development and portfolio…
FameLab Success!
Dr Samantha Nixon, one of our Research Fellows from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, has recently been chosen as the…
Lifetime achievement in genetics research
Professor Kathy Belov has been awarded the MJD White Medal by the Genetics Society of Australasia for excellence and a…
For he’s a jolly good Fellow!
…and so say all of us! CIPPS is delighted that our Director, Professor David Craik FAA FRS, has been elected…
Dr Lara Malins awarded 2021 Westpac Research Fellowship
Dr Lara Malins, has been awarded a prestigious Westpac Research Fellowship to support her research into the development of new…
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…