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
Students Lauren Isherwood, Audric Co, Jacqueline Sale, Tamara Nganeko, Lucy Simpson, Emily Missenden, Jane Sandstrom, Amy Dunning, Laurelie Wall, Lisa Edwards with clinical educators Teresa Quinlan and Gail Woodyat, and Kirsten, a German disability support teacher working in one of the orphanages.

Ten students from The University of Queensland ‘s Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS) completed a five-week clinical placement in Hue, Vietnam working with children with disabilities in schools and orphanages.

17 October 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
Part of UQ's Concentrating Pholtovotaic Array

The University of Queensland is offering a range of hands-on activities for National Science Week, including solar array tours and coral conservation workshops.

10 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
UQ Professor David Craik.

Researchers at UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) have received over $3 million from the Queensland Government to combat diseases including type 2 diabetes and to study sugarcane soils to advance environmentally sustainable food and...

19 June 2012

Queensland’s blossoming arts sector may have impressed a visiting British arts scholar, but she says the state government needs to protect it.

13 April 2012

Australian scientists are working with industry to develop a spider venom extract for treating chronic pain.

17 February 2012

The Australian Research Council has offered more than $2.7 million in fellowships to support Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) researchers to investigate heart development, the reproductive system and tiny molecules that could be the key to...

16 November 2011
UQ's Professor Melissa Little, who along with Professor Ian Frazer has been appointed to a new panel which will oversee a 10-year strategic health and medical research plan for the nation

Two University of Queensland researchers have been chosen as part of an expert panel to conduct an independent review on health and medical research in Australia.

27 September 2011
UQ is proud to be a premier partner of the Brisbane Writers Festival

The University of Queensland will once again play host to some of the world’s top authors as a premier partner of the Brisbane Writers’ Festival, which begins this week.

6 September 2011

Two of The University of Queensland's (UQ) leading researchers have teamed with the world’s largest biopharmaceutical company to develop new peptide-based medicines for the treatment of major diseases.

28 June 2011

The University of Queensland’s School of Psychology is supporting foster children by donating 10 computers to The Pyjama Foundation, a charity that assists some of Brisbane’s most vulnerable youth.

17 May 2011

Fifty two leading researchers from The University of Queensland were honoured on Sunday as leaders in their diverse fields of discovery at the inaugural Q-Index Awards.

17 May 2011

UQ research that aims to protect crops without incurring long-term environmental damage has won a major award and resulted in a licence agreement.

16 May 2011

UQ health researchers have joined with the directors of Queensland’s leading medical research institutes to speak out against significant funding cuts to medical research foreshadowed in the upcoming Federal Budget.

12 April 2011

A world expert in using computational science to study disease is joining The University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience after receiving a $4 million fellowship to study chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancers.

4 March 2011
Ernest Tee, from Malayasia, completed his honours project at UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) and will graduate first in his class with a grade point average of 7.0 – a perfect score.

A student who used his honours year to investigate a potential drug to treat antibiotic-resistant bacteria has been named The University of Queensland’s (UQ) Valedictorian for the Bachelor of Science degree.

16 December 2010

The third International Conference on Narrative Inquiry in Music and Education (NIME3) was opened with a world premiere of Three Madrigals on Love at The University of Queensland recently.

3 December 2010