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Annual Report 2025

  • 30 April 2026
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Our 2025 Annual Report has been published that showcases many great stories and photos from our team.  It’s exciting to read about so many highlights spanning the CIPPS Annual Symposium and EMCR / PhD retreat at the Mercure Resort Gold Coast, our progress reporting against the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the many research in […]

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2024 Annual Report

  • 1 July 2025
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Our 2024 Annual Report has been published that showcases many great stories and photos from our team. It’s exciting to read about so many highlights spanning the CIPPS EMCR and PhD Retreat at Kingscliff, our 3rd Annual Symposium at Q-Station Manly, our progress reporting against the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the many research in focus […]

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2025 ARC Laureate – Professor Richard Payne

  • 30 June 2025
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Congratulations to CIPPS Deputy Director, Professor Rich Payne, on being awarded a 2025 ARC Laureate Fellowship, FL250100011 – Unlocking the Modified Proteome. Professor Payne aims to uncover how protein modifications influence biological activity. This project will develop automated technologies to produce modified proteins with high precision and scale, enabling new insights into major protein classes. […]

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Protecting our Australian ground dweller, the Ninu (Greater Bilby)

  • 16 June 2025
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Extracting DNA from Ninu scat to save an iconic marsupial from extinction Australia is home to about two-thirds of the world’s known extant species of marsupials, including Tasmanian devils and quolls (dasyurids or carnivorous marsupials), kangaroos, koalas, and wombats (diprotodonts or herbivores), and bilbies and bandicoots (permelemorphs). Marsupials are an iconic group of animals due […]

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3rd Annual Symposium – Q-Station Manly

  • 14 January 2025
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Over 120 delegates were hosted at the CIPPS 3rd Annual Symposium held at Q-Station, Manly, 25-28th November 2024.  Read about the Sympoisum highlights below by Junming He. Powered By EmbedPress

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Professor David Baker Institute for Protein Design Department of Biochemistry University of Washington, USA.

Professor David Baker awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024

  • 8 November 2024
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 CIPPS Partner Investigator, Professor David Baker, who serves as Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA, was recently named recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in acknowledgment of his achievement “for computational protein design.”    The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded one half to David Baker and the other […]

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Eureka Prize – Outstanding Mentor

  • 6 September 2024
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Congratulations to CI Kate Jolliffe for winning this year’s Eureka Prize for Outstanding Mentor of Researchers.  Kate’s research and leadership has enhanced Australia’s standing in the relatively young field of supramolecular chemistry. To help close the gender gap she supported the foundation of the international ‘Women in Supramolecular Chemistry’ network. Her committed mentorship has resulted […]

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Conference Highlights: CIPPS Retreat, Kingscliff

  • 28 August 2024
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Between 8-10 May 2024 approximately 120 centre members from across Australia gathered at the Mantra on Salt Beach, Kingscliff, in northern NSW to share their science and broaden their professional skills. The retreat offered talks by CIs, AIs, EMCRs and a poster session. Based on feedback from the last retreat the professional development sessions were […]

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CIPPS Director receives the 2024 Emil Thomas Kaiser Award

  • 12 July 2024
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Professor David Craik has been awarded the 2024 Emil Thomas Kaiser Award by The Protein Society.  The award recognizes a recent, highly significant contribuition to the application of chemistry in the study of proteins. The full article can be read here.

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2023 Annual Report

  • 16 April 2024
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Our 2023 Annual Report has been published that showcases many great stories and photos from our team. It’s exciting to read about so many highlights spanning the CIPPS Symposium 2023, the EMCR and PhD Retreat in the Blue Mountains, our progress reporting against the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the many research in focus stories. Thanks also […]

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Conference Highlights – IPS2023 and CIPPS Symposium

  • 20 December 2023
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Australia hosted this year’s International Peptide Symposium at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, and CIPPS was a Platinum Sponsor for the event. It was a wonderful opportunity for us to showcase our research and forge collaborations with the leading international peptide scientists in this once-in-a-decade opportunity in Australia.

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2022 Annual Report

  • 28 April 2023
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Our 2022 Annual Report has been published that showcases many great stories and photos from our team. Thanks also to CIPPS Research Fellow Dr Jeffrey Mak for designing this year’s cover art. It’s exciting to see that we are meeting or exceeding the vast majority of our key performance indicators set with the Australian Research Council.

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Perspective: Women in CIPPS

  • 15 March 2023
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This month we have a very special edition of our regular highlights section. In celebration of International Day of Women and Girls in Science and International Women’s Day, Junming has interviewed 11 of the wonderful women within CIPPS. Featuring women in different roles and at different career stages, this piece highlights diverse experiences and contains valuable advice relevant to all members. Read the full article by Junming He below.

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