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Research discoveries revealing the genetic causes of neurological degeneration could be a key to slowing the progression of devastating diseases.

13 August 2018

The University of Queensland-based Protagonist Therapeutics, Inc. has announced the completion of a $14 million Series B venture financing initiative.

10 July 2013
Attending the Celebration of Giving reception were, from left, UQ Chancellor John Story, Dr Ros Siemon, Amanda Whelan, Andrew Stallman and Jill Stallman.

More than 240 of The University of Queensland’s (UQ) donors and supporters attended the Celebration of Giving reception at the end of last year to show their continued support for the University.

4 January 2012

Medical research worth $40 million will commence at The University of Queensland in 2010, thanks to funding announced by the Federal Government today.

29 October 2009

Cancer drugs may soon grow on trees if a University of Queensland researcher has his way.

24 September 2009
Associate Professor Sean Grimmond

University of Queensland (UQ) researchers will use a $5 million grant from the Queensland State Government to unlock the genetic causes of pancreatic and ovarian cancer.

20 May 2009
Associate Professor Sean Grimmond

Scientists at The University of Queensland (UQ) will use a record research grant to give new hope to patients with two of Australia's most fatal cancers.

26 March 2009

Australian and American scientists have identified the origins of the most malignant type of brain tumour in a discovery that could lead to better therapies and improve our understanding of how tumours initiate.

12 August 2008

Two University of Queensland researchers have been acknowledged as being among the country’s top scientists after being elected Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science.

25 March 2008

A geneticist from a team that recently identified multiple genes that cause intellectual disability in children will give a seminar in Brisbane on Thursday.

11 March 2008

The University of Queensland has welcomed the signing of a $50 million funding agreement from the Queensland Government for the University’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB).

16 November 2007

The Institute for Molecular Bioscience has been awarded almost $17 million from the National Health and Medical Research Council for fellowships and projects including regenerating wounded skin, and fighting golden staph.

26 September 2007

University of Queensland researchers have won both of the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) 2008 Australia Fellowships, worth a total of $8 million.

25 September 2007

Professor Jennifer Stow from The University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) has been awarded a Smart Women: Smart State award for her work on cells, which may lead to alternative treatments for inflammatory disease.

31 August 2007

The University of Queensland will this week mark Brain Awareness Week with a free public memorial lecture for a celebrated neuroscientist, and a Brain Bee Challenge for high school students.

12 March 2007

A researcher who has spent most of the past decade working in the U.S. has returned to Australia to continue working on environmentally-friendly insect control methods based on spider venom compounds.

1 March 2007

A Queensland researcher will lead a new world-class research centre being established in Edinburgh, Scotland.

24 January 2007

A leading cancer and cystic fibrosis researcher is the new director of an Australian bioscience flagship, the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) at The University of Queensland (UQ).

12 January 2007

Professor Brandon Wainwright has been named Acting Director of The University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) following the resignation of Professor John Mattick.

25 January 2006

Winning the prestigious Roche Medal has further enhanced University of Queensland Associate Professor Jennifer Martin`s international reputation as a leader in structural biology and protein crystallography.

5 May 2005