The Clinical Research Excellence (CRX08) conference starts in Brisbane tomorrow. We talk flu pandemics with plenary speaker Anne Kelso.

The NHMRC has announced $29 million for medical research institute support services

Exhibitors on the QTCN booth at BIO 2008 in San Diego

Nature Genetics papers find further links between pigmentation and skin cancer.

10 life scientists become fellows of the AAS.

We look at the background to the massive international collaboration looking for genes associated with breast cancer, which published its landmark findings in the May 27 edition of Nature.

'Drunks beget drunks' is the title of John Whitfield's presentation for the addictions seminar at the IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience, being held in Melbourne in July.

Gastroenterologist Graham Radford-Smith is combining research with clinical application in his work on inflammatory bowel disease.

Queensland researcher Richard Sturm is looking at how various alleles interact to influence eye, hair and skin colour. The research is of particular importance in understanding skin cancer risk in European populations.

The not-for-profit Queensland Clinical Trials Network will be exhibiting at BIO 2007.

Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott recently announced the 19 members of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) for the next three years, presenting the head of one of Australia's largest medical research institutes, Professor Michael Good, with an unexpected but very welcome new challenge. Fiona Wylie reports.