With up to a billion hectares of wilderness likely to be cleared to feed the world in the coming half century and an area the size of China devoured by cities, leading environmental scientists are urging caution over the extent to which lost...
31 July 2012
Two researchers from The University of Queensland have been named finalists in one of Australia’s longest running and most prestigious medical research awards: the GlaxoSmithKline Awards for Research Excellence.
31 July 2012
The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute's Dr Michelle Hill has been announced a winner of a Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship to study the total cellular effect of cancer-associated changes in cellular membranes.
31 July 2012Researchers from The University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience have discovered a potential new approach to treating chronic inflammatory diseases such as arthritis.
30 July 2012
Medical students from The University of Queensland are throwing two big events to help share a message they feel is extremely important - that HIV/AIDS can affect anyone.
16 July 2012
In a world first, Australian schoolboys will be able to receive the Gardasil vaccine, protecting them against developing a range of cancers - a move which will improve the effectiveness of the vaccine in women.
13 July 2012A University of Queensland academic has assisted in a prestigious journal’s publication of a special issue about the impact humans are having on the world’s animal species.
11 July 2012John Pandolfi keeps his optimism alive despite the grim scientific evidence he confronts daily that the world’s coral reefs are in a lot of trouble – along with 81 nations and 500 million people who depend on them.
10 July 2012
Researchers at UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) are a step closer to understanding and combating the degenerative brain disease ataxia-telangiectasia.
3 July 2012
This week UQ is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the establishment of a Department of Microbiology with an alumni dinner to be addressed by an eminent scientist working on polio – a remerging disease.
3 July 2012An International surgical practice network has recognised the achievements of Associate Professor of Surgery Mark Smithers from the University of Queensland (UQ).
2 July 2012
Melanin – the pigment that colours skin, eyes and hair – could soon be the face of a new generation of biologically friendly electronic devices used in applications such as medical sensors and tissue stimulation treatments.
27 June 2012The University of Queensland (UQ) is seeking volunteers to investigate the effect of a virtual reality device for neck pain.
26 June 2012The discovery that a cancer drug is hiding in sunflower seeds has won a UQ plant scientist a national award.
25 June 2012UniQuest has facilitated a research and development contract with US biotech company Viral Genetics, Inc. for University of Queensland (UQ) Associate Professor Ben Hankamer to collaborate on an innovative biofuel production system.
19 June 2012
An international collaboration involving the development of next-generation of smart medicines in Brisbane has received a boost, with $485,000 in State Government funding
19 June 2012
The University of Queensland School of Dentistry’s Oral Oncology Research Program has secured major grant funding to support new research.
19 June 2012
A new world-class imaging research facility in Brisbane will provide cutting edge imaging methods to improve the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, mental disorders and neurological diseases associated with ageing.
19 June 2012Q-Sera Pty Ltd, the latest biotechnology company formed to commercialise intellectual property from The University of Queensland (UQ), has raised $900,000 from Australia’s Medical Research Commercialisation Fund (MRCF) and the Uniseed...
18 June 2012Brisbane residents experiencing whiplash related neck pain from a recent car accident are being offered free physiotherapy treatment if they participate in a new study.
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