When 11-year-old Emma has her mum along to netball games, little do her teammates know that her mum is working to tackle one of the world’s deadliest diseases.
Professor Kathy Andrews is a leading biomedical scientist working to save millions of lives by finding new treatments for malaria, but when she leaves the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery at the end of the day she is just like any other parent who has to get the school lunch ready.
Just like other scientists, Professor Andrews is busy with day-to-day life, something she is trying to highlight by demystifying the idea scientists are typically males in a lab, often with a ‘nutty professor image’.
Her first book, My mum is a parasite scientist, is part of a new project called That’s Rad! Science that Professor Andrews developed and leads.
The first three books in the series are partially funded by the Queensland Government under an