UQ researcher receives grant to collaborate with leading international researchers

A UQ researcher has been awarded a 2025 Early- and Mid-Career Researcher (EMCR) Mobility Grant from the Australian Academy of Science to collaborate with international field-leading experts on ways to support cancer patients. 

Pharmacist and NHMRC research fellow at UQ’s Sensory Neuropharmacology Group, Dr Hana Starobova will use the grant to advance research in understanding how motor disabilities develop in some people following lifesaving cancer therapy, and how these changes to motor function could be treated. 

The grant will enable Dr Starobova to visit one of the top groups studying motor neuropathies at the Experimental Neurology Unit at the University of Milano-Bicocca in Monza, Italy to learn new methodologies to assess neuronal damage.