a person in a blue shirt clutches their abdomen which is highlighted with a red light

University of Queensland researchers have used genetics to reveal that much of the risk of developing a common and sometimes fatal intestinal disease is inherited.

5 July 2023
Gastrointestinal diseases like peptic ulcers affect between five and 10 per cent of people at some time in their lives. Getty.

University of Queensland researchers have confirmed a link between depression and stomach ulcers, in the world’s largest study of genetic factors in peptic ulcer disease.

25 February 2021
UQ researchers and research supervisors have been recognised for their outstanding contributions in a range of fields at the 2018 UQ Research Week awards

A roll-call of high calibre researchers and research supervisors has been recognised for outstanding contributions in a range of fields at The University of Queensland 2018 Research Week awards.

12 September 2018
Dr Michael Taylor from UQ's School of Biomedical Sciences,

A physicist and a chemist from The University of Queensland will network with Nobel Prize winners at the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting later this month.

8 June 2017
UQ's Excellence awardees 2016

Staff who have contributed to The University of Queensland’s vision of excellence have been celebrated and awarded at the 2016 UQ Awards for Excellence.

10 June 2016

A new way to detect explosives and an alternative to antibiotics for animals are among 19 research projects at The University of Queensland to secure funding to build the state’s future.

20 April 2016
Life reconstruction of Kunbarrasaurus ieversi. Image © Australian Geographic - only to be used in reference to this story.

It has a parrot-like beak, bones in its skin and an inner ear similar to a turtle - University of Queensland experts discuss Kunbarrasaurus, Australia’s newest dinosaur.

17 January 2016

It has a parrot-like beak, bones in its skin and an inner ear similar to a turtle. Meet Kunbarrasaurus, Australia’s newest dinosaur.

8 December 2015
The research aims to extract a high-value “healthy” sugar from sorghum

A joint project between Queensland and Chinese researchers to derive sugars from sorghum could result in extraordinary social, economic and environmental benefits for future generations.

3 June 2014

The University of Queensland is well advanced in the nation’s quest to be a major stakeholder in the new Asian Century, a leading UQ scientist said today.

2 November 2012
Research Professor Robert (Bob) Gilbert.

The People’s Republic of China has honoured one of Australia’s most experienced polymer chemists with a new research posting.

7 August 2012
Professor Robert Parton, from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, is leading a $7.1 million research project to study the mechanisms behind healthy cells transforming into cancerous cells.

Cutting-edge research that aims to stop the transformation of healthy cells into cancerous cells is one of nine prestigious grants and scholarships awarded to health and medical researchers at The University of Queensland (UQ).

15 December 2011
International pharmacy student Shirin Hui Tan with project team leader Jacqueline Bond

Pharmacy students from international backgrounds are learning Australian colloquialisms — as a matter of life and death.

2 November 2011

Australia’s first tropical and subtropical agricultural research institute, the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), celebrated some early successes at its inaugural Annual Research Meeting on Brisbane’s Sunshine Coast...

22 July 2011

Our liver could be a major springboard for determining life-changing diabetes diagnosis and treatment thanks to a world-first discovery by an Australian-Chinese research team.

7 June 2011

University of Queensland (UQ) research into environmentally and economically sustainable production of sugars and ethanol biofuel has helped Australian-based company CSR Sugar Limited (CSR) sweeten a deal with agricultural research giant, Syngenta.

24 December 2009

Read Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley, the first book to detail Australian Aboriginal architecture, and you’re bound to learn a thing or two.

5 October 2007

Brisbane academic Samantha Owens has stumbled on a rare, 300-year-old opera in a German library.

1 June 2005

Australia's 1998 University of the Year, the University of Queensland, is working closely with international partners to solve environmental management problems around the globe.

23 October 1998