Clostridium autoethanogenum was originally discovered in rabbit droppings

The average person might struggle to get excited about bacterium found in rabbit droppings – but it’s potentially a knight in shining armour for our planet.

28 July 2017
UQ's Dr Amir Popat is a Young Nanoscience Ambassador and will visit schools next year to promote science and research.

Science and research are not just for doctors and professors in white lab coats, if Amir Popat has his way.

8 November 2012

UQ scientists are pressing ahead with development of two advanced vaccines that stand to save the Queensland cattle industry more than $340 million a year.

18 July 2012

Development of stem cell research for treating human cells damaged through injury, disease or ageing has taken a step forward in Queensland.

19 June 2012
Professor Darren Martin of UQ School of Chemical Engineering and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

TenasiTech Pty Ltd, a materials science start-up company from UniQuest based on University of Queensland research, has secured A$1.4 million in grants and equity capital from the Queensland Government and Uniseed

19 June 2012

Researchers at The University of Queensland's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology are working with colleagues at the Pasteur Institute in Vietnam to progress research in vaccine development for pandemic avian influenza.

15 November 2011
Associate Professor Stephen Mahler

Australian researchers aim to use a newly-funded collaboration to develop a new generation of cancer treatment, “supercharging” antibodies with a drug delivery vehicle for targeting tumours.

10 July 2011

The University of Queensland has produced the first Australian batch of a new candidate vaccine against the H1N1 “swine flu” virus.

29 June 2009

New drugs, chemicals and surfaces will be the focus of new $30 million facilities at The University of Queensland.

28 May 2009
Dr Matt Trau

Early diagnosis and tailored treatment of disease are the potential outcomes a new centre to be formed in The University of Queensland’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

18 May 2009

Five talented Vietnamese researchers will share in a $1 million University of Queensland scholarship package for PhDs in UQ’s leading research institutes.

22 April 2009

Students graduating at The University of Queensland today will have the added honour as the last cohort to come under the Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences banner.

1 December 2008