Australian Institute of Tropical Health & Medicine

Brian Cooke

Brian Cooke

Amanda Murphy

Amanda Murphy

Tessa Knox

Tessa Knox

Justin Sexton

Justin Sexton

Adeshina Adekunle

Adeshina Adekunle

Brogan Amos

Brogan Amos

Rachael Ryan

Rachael Ryan

Emma McBryde

Emma McBryde

Juergen Reichardt

Juergen Reichardt

Tanya Russell

Tanya Russell

Discovering novel drug lead molecules for inflammatory bowel disease from Australian Aboriginal tropical medicinal plants (Old ID 26510)
Roland Ruscher
01 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2024
Inflammatory Bowel Disease is a debilitating disease, which has no cure. It costs the Australian Hea...
Tropical partnerships to strengthen health systems responses to infectious diseases threats (Old ID 23015)
Tom Burkot
01 Feb 2017 - 30 Apr 2019
The Asia Pacific Region is facing frequent threats from emerging and existing infectious diseases. T...
Beyond Thursday Island: Expanding the current Asian Tiger Mosquito (Aedes albopictus) control program across the Torres Strait (Old ID 26327)
Tom Burkot
10 Mar 2019 - 31 Dec 2020
Mosquitoes are uncontestably one of the deadliest animals in the world. Our project will investigate...
Protecting north Queensland from Aedes albopictus, an exotic dengue vector, with Attractive Targeted Sugar Baits (ATSB) (Old ID 26789)
Tom Burkot
13 Mar 2020 - 12 Mar 2022
Aedes albopictus, a documented vector of dengue, Zika and chikungunya, is one of the fastest spreadi...
Preclinical evaluation of phytocompounds as novel antimicrobial agents. (Old ID 27042)
Andreas Kupz
01 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2021
Through previous work funded by a FNQ Hospital Foundation Grant (JCU-QLD-838341), we have discovered...
Reshaping microbiota extracellular vesicles to combat inflammatory disease. (Old ID 27567)
Roland Ruscher
01 Feb 2024 - 01 Feb 2025
Non-communicable inflammatory diseases such as type 2 diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease are ra...
Advancing the pre-clinical evaluation of a novel modular self-assembling and self-adjuvantin g multiepitope peptide-based nanoparticle tuberculosis vaccine candidate
Andreas Kupz
09 Dec 2024 - 09 Dec 2026
Tuberculosis is a leading infectious cause of death globally and is over-represented in indigenous ...
Unravelling immune heterogeneity in mycobacteria-exposed children from north Queensland
Andreas Kupz
29 Apr 2025 - 28 Apr 2026
This project aims to understand immune responses to tuberculosis (TB) in Indigenous children from Fa...
Unravelling immune heterogeneity in mycobacteria-exposed children from north Queensland
Harindra Sathkumara Mudiyanselage
29 Apr 2025 - 28 Apr 2026
This project aims to understand immune responses to tuberculosis (TB) in Indigenous children from Fa...
Discovery of Novel Biomarkers for Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) Infection Related Cancers - HL Study (Old ID 23629)
Denise Doolan
26 Jul 2017 - 25 Jul 2018
There is a large body of evidence indicating that Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) actively contributes to t...

Entomological investigations in a focus of dengue transmission in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, by using the sticky ovitraps

Spontaneous fermentation of traditional sago starch in Papua New Guinea

Role for MyD88, TLR2 and TLR9 but not TLR1, TLR4 or TLR6 in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Immature murine NKT cells pass through a stage of developmentally programmed innate IL-4 secretion

Impact of metal ion homeostasis of genetically modified Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 and K12 (W3110) strains on colonization properties in the murine intestinal tract

Colonization resistance against genetically modified Escherichia coli K12 (W3110) strains is abrogated following broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment and acute ileitis

Contribution of Thy1+ NK cells to protective IFN-γ production during Salmonella Typhimurium infections

Salmonella typhimurium's transthyretin-like protein is a host-specific factor important in fecal survival in chickens

Different bacterial pathogens, different strategies, yet the aim is the same: evasion of intestinal dendritic cell recognition

NLRC4 inflammasomes in dendritic cells regulate noncognate effector function by memory CD8⁺ T cells

Title: PhD in Infectious diseases and Immunology , James Cook University
Reseracher: Harindra Sathkumara Mudiyanselage (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
Title: M.Sc in Cellular & Molecular Immunology, University of Colombo
Reseracher: Harindra Sathkumara Mudiyanselage (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
Title: B.Sc (Hons) in Biomedical Science , University of Greenwich
Reseracher: Harindra Sathkumara Mudiyanselage (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
Title: TEDx Presentation - Eradicating Tuberculosis
Reseracher: Andreas Kupz (Professorial Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2017
End Date: 01 Jan 2017
Title: Pecha Kucha presentation - Eradicating Tuberculosis
Reseracher: Andreas Kupz (Professorial Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2019
End Date: 01 Jan 2019
Title: Science Meets Parliament
Reseracher: Andreas Kupz (Professorial Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2019
End Date: 01 Jan 2019
Title: B.Sc Biotechnology, Bharathiar University
Reseracher: Vignesh Ambothi Rathinasamy (Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2003
End Date: 01 Jan 2006
Title: M.Sc Biotechnology, Bharathiar University
Reseracher: Vignesh Ambothi Rathinasamy (Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2006
End Date: 01 Jan 2008
Title: Ph.D in Agriculture, La Trobe University
Reseracher: Vignesh Ambothi Rathinasamy (Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2012
End Date: 01 Jan 2017
Title: Queensland Flying Scientists Program
Reseracher: Andreas Kupz (Professorial Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2020
End Date: 01 Jan 2020