Dr Evelyn Deplazes, School of Biomedical Sciences, won the New Investigator Award at the Combined Biological Sciences Meeting held at UWA on 26 August 2016. The title of Dr Deplazes’ presentation was ‘Phospholipid Binding Activity of the Spider Venom Peptides ProTx-I and ProTx-II and its Relevance to the Inhibition of the Analgesic Target NaV1.7’.

Felipe Krupelis, PhD student, School of Biomedical Sciences, supervised by Professor Philip Newsholme, School of Biomedical Sciences, won second prize at a three minute thesis (3MT®) competition, held in building 213 at Curtin on 23 August. The competition was organised by Tania Lerch, Office of Research and Development. Felipe was awarded $1000 in prize money, in the form of a research grant, for his talk, ‘Neutrophil Extracellular Traps: our cells going fishing’. He competed in two heats before being selected for the final.

Lelinh Duong, honours student, School of Biomedical Sciences, Chee-Wai Wong, graduate student, School of Biomedical Sciences, and Omar El Askalani, graduate student, School of Biomedical Sciences, won poster prizes at the Combined Biological Sciences Meeting held at UWA on 26 August 2016.

Congratulations everyone!