Belinda Smith
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2,605 appearances
27 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
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That's good.
Yes.
The company's called Macrobiome Therapeutics, and it's raised a seed round of investment.
So we are developing a number of candidate molecules secreted by these worms, trying to make them more drug-like now, make them look a little bit more like the sorts of biologics drugs that we use to treat many of these diseases.
But these are not designed on a computer.
They're inspired by co-evolutionary biology.
Have you taken any worms by doing?
I have not yet.
Could you?
I think I would one day, yes.
So you can... A whole new approach to a primary industry in the regions.
Yeah, we'd like to think so.
It's wonderful to be able to come up and do tropical disease research in the tropics, and that was one of the things that attracted me up here in the first place, was we were always looking for sources of worms, and they don't grow so readily in Brisbane, but it's much more worm-friendly climate up here in far north Queensland.
Distinguished Professor Alex Lucas with PhD student Deanne Walter.
Illustrating another theme Bell touched on with viruses in your genome.
Yes, parasites in your body doing you good.
And now providing a new industry for all up north.
And next, another prize winner, this time from Western Australia and Murdoch University, also combining cultures.
What was the award you got from the Premier?
And was this based on particular scientific investigations or was it something broader than that where you had a consideration of Indigenous culture to go along with it?
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