Unravelling the secrets of the relationship between coral and the algae living inside it will help prevent coral bleaching, University of Queensland researchers believe.

14 May 2019
Woodland in the Cooloola dunes near Rainbow Beach. Image: Lui Weber

UQ scientists are studying plants' microbial communities, with the aim of improving crop and plant yields. A piece of land on Queensland's Sunshine Coast has proved vital to their quest, with its wide range of species in close proximity, in very...

10 August 2017
The University of Queensland has a range of experts available for media comment on G20 issues.

The University of Queensland has a range of experts available to comment on issues being discussed by worldwide leaders at Brisbane’s upcoming G20 summit.

13 November 2014

Affordable housing and low-cost dengue vaccines are among seven University of Queensland research projects recognised in the State Government’s latest round of science and innovation grants.

30 July 2014
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
UQ Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry.

Medical imaging technologies, diabetes II treatments, animal health vaccines and biomedical implants are among University of Queensland research activities to receive vital Queensland Government support, announced this week.

19 June 2012

Computers can be used to identify cancer treatment targets that wouldn’t otherwise have been considered, according to research by an Australian team.

8 May 2012

A network of six complementary transmission electron microscope facilities will be funded through the Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Projects scheme for 2012 announced yesterday.

2 November 2011

Women with advanced breast cancer are the targets of a multi-million dollar grant awarded to UQ to develop a new and more accurate technique of determining whether or not cancer has spread through the body.

3 October 2007

The outstanding work of The University of Queensland’s Australian Research Council Centres has been recognised with $15.7 million of extension funding for all four research groups.

14 March 2007

The University of Queensland has received Queensland Government Smart State grants valued at almost $11 million under programs announced during the BIO2006 conference in Chicago.

13 April 2006

The Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) at The University of Queensland has been awarded $2.7 million in Smart State grants, Deputy Premier Anna Bligh announced today.

11 April 2006

A University of Queensland study mapping the evolution of genes has shed light on the role of gene transfer in bacterial diseases.

9 November 2005

International researchers in history and philosophy of science will join leading Queensland bioscientists to discuss the meaning of the genomic revolution at a conference to be held at The University of Queensland on October 14-15.

11 October 2005

The amazing science of constructing materials atom by atom may seem like science fiction, but researchers at The University of Queensland are getting ever closer to making it science fact.

20 August 2003

A visiting world expert in genomics and bioinformatics has been working with Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) scientists at the University of Queensland on mapping out a strategic plan for national biological research.

11 September 2002

The Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) has secured an Australian first to host the prestigious Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in 2003.

23 January 2002

One of the world leaders in the rapidly growing field of computational biology will be sharing his expertise and insights with Queensland scientists at The University of Queensland on Wednesday, August 29, 2001

28 August 2001