Dr Zeinab Khalil from Egypt will graduate with a PhD in molecular bioscience and microbiology this week.

Political upheaval in her home country and devastating floods at her Ipswich apartment could not stop Dr Zeinab Khalil from graduating with a PhD in molecular bioscience and microbiology on Friday, 6 December.

4 December 2013
Beverley Trivett ... important progress made in brain research but we still don’t understand why people develop these dreadful tumours and why they grow so rapidly

After years of losing patients to brain tumours — despite having access to the best of modern medicine — a Brisbane neurosurgeon has had enough.

15 October 2013

More than 40 paramedic students will converge on The University of Queensland's Ipswich Campus on 12 October for the first UQ Student Paramedic Clinical Simulation Day.

11 October 2013

Eight of The University of Queensland’s top research students will have three minutes each to explain their work to the public during a contest at the University’s St Lucia campus on Tuesday 17 September.

12 September 2013

An international team, including scientists from The University of Queensland and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, has described the mutational processes that drive tumour development in 30 of the most common cancer types.

15 August 2013
Dr Michael Landsberg of UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience is part of a team of Australian and New Zealand researchers who are harnessing bacteria as a possible bio-insecticide to control crop pest.

A team of Australian and New Zealand researchers are harnessing bacteria as a possible new bioinsecticide to control crop pests.

2 August 2013
eX de Medici
‘Spy (Tehran/Qom)’ 2012
watercolour on paper
image/sheet 114 x 166 cm
Collection of The University of Queensland, purchased 2012
Photo: Carl Warner
Reproduced courtesy of the artist

UQ Art Museum will showcase selected artworks acquired for The University of Queensland Art Collection in the last two years.

2 August 2013

Newly trialled native algae species provide real hope for the development of commercially viable fuels from algae, a University of Queensland scientist has found.

24 July 2013
Dr Ryan Taft with an Illumina sequencer, on which the gene sequencing was performed.

A global team of researchers has identified the gene behind an Australian toddler’s paediatric brain disorder in a discovery that is paving the way for the diagnosis and treatment of other children with genetic diseases.

3 May 2013
Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) PhD student Marga Gual Soler has been selected for a three month traineeship with the United Nations in New York.

A University of Queensland PhD student is one of those selected from more than 10,000 applicants to undertake a three-month traineeship with the United Nations in New York.

25 March 2013

Papilloma virus infections and superbug tuberculosis strains will come under renewed attack, after the federal government today agreed to support two University of Queensland research projects.

18 December 2012

Researchers from The University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) have identified the nerves involved in the painful tropical disease called ciguatera.

11 December 2012

Young people who have the potential to experience osteoarthritis in the knee post reconstructive surgery will benefit from pioneering research at The University of Queensland.

30 November 2012
Massimo Damiani, 3, with his dad Stephen ... Massimo's genome has been analysed to help better understand leukodystrophy

A University of Queensland researcher has been awarded an $85,000 grant to identify the genes that underlie rare paediatric brain disorders.

23 November 2012
Professor Matt Cooper

A University of Queensland researcher is calling on all Australians to do their part to reduce the spread of superbugs as we mark Antibiotic Awareness Week this week, November 12-18.

15 November 2012
UQ Professor Glenn King gets up close to spiders for a project exploring the use of spider venom as an environmentally-friendly insecticide.

The University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) has been awarded $4 million in funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC), including $325,000 for a project that will use spider venom and fungi to stop insects from...

9 November 2012

New approaches to cancer treatment and improved nickel mining output were the winning ideas from the grand final of UniQuest’s annual Trailblazer competition held at The University of Queensland on September 4.

10 September 2012

60 University of Queensland (UQ) professional staff members have been recognised as “Miracle Workers” at a special ceremony today, August 27.

27 August 2012

The top two prizes in UniQuest’s annual Trailblazer innovative ideas competition at The University of Queensland have been won by a genetic discovery that could help feed up to a billion people and a safer way to monitor the breathing of premature...

27 August 2012

Queensland scientists are unlocking the benefits of a protein found in seeds of a spiky red fruit that could lead to the development of more affordable medicines made from plants.

26 July 2012