Colourful coral on the ocean floor, surrounded by small fish and blue water in the background.

UQ-led research has shown there is more coral reef area across the globe than previously thought, with detailed satellite mapping helping to conserve these vital ecosystems.

14 February 2024
Six scientists using equipment at a desk in a laboratory

The University of Queensland’s re-engineered clamp platform has produced a vaccine that is equally safe and virus-neutralising as an approved vaccine considered among the best in its class.

23 November 2023
AQC researchers working on maths equations on glass wall with gold plated fridge in foreground. Image UQ

Researchers at Queensland’s first quantum technology startup, based at UQ, are developing microscopic superconducting hardware critical to scaling up future quantum computer technology.

30 October 2023
Two scientists wearing protective equipment in a science laboratory.

Recruitment is underway for a pivotal proof-of-concept human trial of The University of Queensland’s second-generation molecular clamp vaccine.

20 March 2023
Associate Professor Tim Mercer wearing a lab coat and safety goggles holding a bottle containing orange liquid

A University of Queensland team has become the biggest supplier of experimental mRNA vaccines and therapies in Australia, with burgeoning demand from research and industry across the country.

11 January 2023
Griffith University Vice-Chancellor Professor Carolyn Evans, UQ Vice-Chancellor Deborah Terry, Sanofi's Dr Jean-Francois Toussaint, Premier Annastacia Palasczcuk, Deputy Premier Steven Miles, and Minister for Science Meaghan Scanlon

Queensland will become a global mRNA vaccine hub with a $280 million Translational Science Hub to be established in Queensland.

5 December 2022
Five scientists wearing UQ-branded lab coats in a laboratory. They are lined up in a row and smiling.

The University of Queensland is set to take a second-generation molecular clamp vaccine to a proof-of-concept human trial.

25 November 2022
Rows of lettuces growing inside a glass house. Image, UQ

Feeding the world’s spiralling population amidst the ravages of climate change will be the focus of a major agriculture conference which gets underway in Brisbane today.

31 October 2022
Picture of planet with red aura

Scientists have revealed that climate change has already impacted all of Earth’s ‘life zones’ and the effects are set to triple under business-as-usual emissions growth.

16 November 2021
Head shot of Dr Dan Watterson with his arms folded across his chest, and the lab behind

The University of Queensland’s Associate Professor Dan Watterson has been awarded a $1.25 million CSL Centenary Fellowship to research accelerated pandemic treatments.

28 October 2021
Ailinginae Atoll - Ailinginae Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Photo credit: Greg Asner

All of the world’s shallow coral reefs have been digitally mapped, thanks to a three-year project combining two million satellite images, enormous amounts of field data and University of Queensland-developed mapping techniques.

9 September 2021

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has awarded seven Future Fellowships to University of Queensland researchers.

12 August 2021
A femaile scientists pipettes from a vial of vaccine

University of Queensland scientists have published the clinical trial data confirming their molecular clamp-stabilised vaccine technology was safe and potentially effective.

20 April 2021
Image depicts the 1G5.3 antibody (green) bound to both Zika (red) and dengue (blue) NS1 proteins. It's based on structural data but idealised to showing binding to both viral proteins simultaneously. Credit: Daniel Watterson

New treatments to cut the global death rate from dengue, Zika and West Nile viruses could result from research led by The University of Queensland.

8 January 2021
Professor Trent Munro, Professor Paul Young and Assistant Professor Keith Chappell stand in the clinic with the first participants of the Phase I clinical trial of the UQ COVID-19 vaccine.

Global biotech company CSL Limited will supply the Australian Government with 51 million doses of The University of Queensland’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate if it proves successful, under a heads of agreement announced today.

7 September 2020
Five scientists in white lab coats stand in a row.

A landmark partnership will help to accelerate the future development, manufacture and distribution of a University of Queensland COVID-19 vaccine.

5 June 2020

Scientists recently confirmed the Great Barrier Reef suffered another serious bleaching event last summer - the third in five years. Dramatic intervention to save the natural wonder is clearly needed.

24 April 2020
Koala-in-a-gum-tree

A koala virus could help researchers explain millions of years of accumulated ‘junk’ DNA in the human genome.

8 August 2018
The Nanopatch targets cells in the skin’s outer layers

Efforts to rid the world of polio have taken another significant step, thanks to research led by University of Queensland bioscience experts and funding from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

5 October 2017
Pteropus poliocephalus colony: image Justin Welbergen

Minimising the impact of viruses upon the pig industry is a major objective of a $3.83 million grant to international scientific collaborators, including a team from Queensland.

30 August 2017