Alexander Mueller – PhD candidate, University of Queensland Developing safe and effective painkillers from tarantula venom A new painkiller developed from tarantula spider venom holds potential for relieving pain without causing side-effects. The painkiller, developed by University of Queensland scientists, has the potential to reduce the huge social and economic impacts of pain which costs…
Fresh Science is on hold for 2022. We will be back in 2023.
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Fresh Science is a national competition and training program helping early-career researchers find and share their stories of discovery.
We take young researchers with no media experience and help them become media spokespeople for their science, and reach stakeholders in government and industry.
Fresh Science gives finalists a taste of life in the limelight, with a day of media training, a day of training in stakeholder engagement, and a public event in their home state.
Alumni of the program include Professor Allan Duffy and Dr Niraj Lal.
Read some of the fresh science we discovered in 2021 here.
