QCAS previous recipients
Successful grant recipients
The Queensland–Chinese Academy of Sciences Collaborative Science Fund has provided grants of $125,000 over two years to Queensland research organisations in a series of funding rounds since 2014.
View the list below of previous Q-CAS recipients and their project details.
| Round | Project | Location | Priority | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Antimicrobial nanoadditive for poultry feed The University of QueenslandThis project aims to develop a high-value natural nanoadditive containing natural plant extracts for foodborne bacteria control in chickens. | Brisbane | Agricultural biotechnology and food research, including food safety | $125,000 |
| 2020 | COVID-19 vaccines and inhibitors The University of QueenslandThis project will use structural biology to help develop new potential vaccines and inhibitors (both neutralising antibodies and small molecules) for SARS-CoV-2. | Brisbane | Human Health and Medical Research | $125,000 |
| 2020 | Targeted liver cancer therapy Mater Research Institute–University of QueenslandThis project aims to develop targeted therapies for liver cancer, generating new agents that home specifically to and accumulate in this cancer. | Brisbane | Human Health and Medical Research | $125,000 |
| 2017–18 | Multifunctional nanomedicines for Alzheimer's disease The University of QueenslandThis project is developing novel multifunctional nanomedicines for efficient Alzheimer's Disease treatment, through enhancing brain blood barrier penetration and brain cell uptake via targeting technology and simultaneously delivering four carefully-selected therapeutics to the brain intracellular and extracellular milieu for combinational Alzheimer's Disease treatment. | Brisbane | Agricultural biotechnology and food research, including food safety | $125,000 |
| 2017–18 | Therapeutics for stroke and pain The University of QueenslandThis project is using structural biological approaches to determine the molecular mechanism by which particular compounds inhibit acid-sensing ion channels, and use this information to rationally engineer optimised compounds for development as drugs for the treatment of chronic pain and stroke. | Brisbane | Human health: immunology or neuroscience | $125,000 |
| 2016–17 | Predicting crop yield from space The University of QueenslandThis project sought to develop crop yield prediction systems using remotely-sensed data from satellite platforms in combination with crop modelling and simulation technologies. | Brisbane | Agricultural biotechnology and food research, including food safety | $125,000 |
| 2016–17 | Better, cheaper, rechargeable batteries The University of QueenslandThis project sought to develop a new generation of high performance, cost-effective cathode materials for rechargeable lithium ion batteries for use in large-scale applications of importance to Queensland and China including household solar-charged batteries and electric vehicle batteries. | Brisbane | Energy | $125,000 |
| 2016–17 | Nanoparticle-mediated brain iron chelation QIMR BerghoferThis project investigated a novel approach for delivering iron chelators to the brain by encapsulating them in nanoparticles or nano-sized vesicles. | Brisbane | Human health: immunology or neuroscience | $125,000 |
| 2015–16 | Liposomal semi-synthetic whole-parasite malaria vaccine Griffith UniversityThis project brought together two separate technologies that the partners independently pioneered to develop an advanced whole-parasite malaria vaccine. | Brisbane | Human health: immunology or neuroscience | $125,000 |
| 2015–16 | Advancing ultrahigh-field MRI based neuroimaging The University of QueenslandThis project sought to develop new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to significantly improve how we view the development of schizophrenia in the human brain. | Brisbane | Human health: immunology or neuroscience | $125,000 |
| 2015–16 | Graphene-based thin film supercapacitors Queensland University of TechnologyThis project was focussed on developing advanced nanotechnology to make thin film supercapacitors based on graphene. | Brisbane | Energy | $125,000 |
| 2015 | Ancient knowledge, modern methods Griffith UniversityThis project analysed and tested Traditional Chinese medicines, specifically those that protect the central nervous system against damage or degeneration caused by diseases such as Parkinson’s Disease, to determine their mechanism of action and then accelerate their acceptance by Western regulatory agencies. | Brisbane | Human health: immunology or neuroscience | $125,000 |
| 2015 | Clean, low cost solar electricity Queensland University of TechnologyThis project focused on developing new materials and technologies to make durable, non-toxic, high-efficiency solar cells using a low-cost method. | Brisbane | Energy | $125,000 |
| 2014 | Sweet sorghum for valuable sugars The University of QueenslandThis project focussed on identifying elite sweet sorghum lines with high and stable sucrose production and transform the stem into an industrial model for value-added sugars such as isomaltulose (low glycaemic and insulin indices and low tooth decay). | Brisbane | Agricultural biotechnology and food research, including food safety | $125,000 |
| 2014 | Immune responses in the development of bone substitute biomaterials (immune responses in biomaterials development) Queensland University of TechnologyThis project focussed on using materials-based strategies to design bone grafts that regulate the innate immune response for the purpose of reconstructing and regenerating skeletal tissue. | Brisbane | Human health: immunology or neuroscience | $125,000 |