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$2.8M in ARC Discovery grants + one ARC DECRA: School tops the state and is second highest in Australia in Chemistry Discovery grants
Record haul for the School of Chemistry with 6 first CI ARC Discovery grants, topping the state and overal second highest in Australia in terms of Discovery Grants. Dr. Neeraj Sharma wins an ARC DECRA and School is involved in 3 successful LIEF worth $1.5M

Advanced Materials paper by Justin Gooding on Bioimaging with Silicon Quantum Dots
Enhancing Quantum Dots for Bioimaging using Advanced Surface Chemistry and Advanced Optical Microscopy: Application to Silicon Quantum Dots (SiQDs), (Adv. Mater., 2015, 27, 6144 - see link).

Prof. Justin Gooding listed in the top 100 most influential analytical scientists in the world
For the second time in a row, the Analytical Scientist lists Prof. Justin Gooding as one of the top 100 most influential analytical scientists in the world

Dr. Adam Martin wins a four year NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Development Fellowship
Dr. Adam Martin, School of Chemistry UNSW, is awarded $594,644 for the prestigious four year NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Development Fellowship on Self-assembled hydrogels as a model for neurodegeneration

Christian Gunawan PhD wins a poster prize at the 66th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry
PhD student Christian Gunawan wins a poster prize at the 66th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry in Taipei, Taiwan.

Prof. Timothy Schmidt wins the International Symposia on Free Radicals Broida prize
Timothy Schmidt has won the Broida prize at the 33rd International Symposia on Free Radicals in California, USA

Dr. Alex Donald wins the inaugural Michael Guilhaus Research Award
(William) Alex Donald has won the inaugural Michael Guilhaus Research Award from the Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry (ANZMS)!

Prof. Justin Gooding Editor-in-Chief of ACS Sensors
Introducing J. Justin Gooding, Inaugural Editor-in-Chief of ACS Sensors

Two ARC Linkage Grants worth $743,470 to the School!
Teams lead by Prof. Naresh Kumar and Prof. Justin Gooding awarded ARC Linkage Grants for developing antimicrobioal coatings and developing biosensors for miRNA, respectively.

Journal of Experimental Medicine paper Shelli McAlpine on kinase activation & pancreatic β cell failure in obesity
Nuclear factor κB–inducing kinase activation as a mechanism of pancreatic β cell failure in obesity (J. Exp. Medicine., 2015, doi: 10.1084/jem.20150218)