Variants of viruses such as that causing COVID-19 can now be quickly studied in the laboratory, even before they emerge in nature and become a major public health challenge.
9 June 2021
The University of Queensland’s potential COVID-19 vaccine is entering an important new phase of testing with the live coronavirus to determine how effectively it induces protection against coronavirus infection.
9 April 2020
Vaccines to stop the world’s next epidemic could be developed in record time under a $14.7 million partnership using technology developed at The University of Queensland.
16 January 2019
Researchers have new insights into how protective antibodies attack dengue viruses, which could lead to more effective dengue fever vaccines and drug therapies.
19 December 2017
University of Queensland research into dementia, cancer, superbugs, painkillers, and children’s health are among 51 projects that will benefit from National Health and Medical Research Council 2018 Project Grant funding announced today.
6 December 2017
Efforts to rid the world of polio have taken another significant step, thanks to research led by University of Queensland bioscience experts and funding from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
5 October 2017
Minimising the impact of viruses upon the pig industry is a major objective of a $3.83 million grant to international scientific collaborators, including a team from Queensland.
30 August 2017
The University of Queensland is the university of choice for more than half of Queensland’s top performing secondary school students.
21 February 2017
University of Queensland microbiologist Emeritus Professor John Fuerst has a new bacterial genus (a group of related organisms) named in his honour.
18 January 2017
Clinical trials for a dengue fever treatment could start within a year, following a discovery by University of Queensland scientists.
10 September 2015
Young Queenslanders will debate the future of the world’s food alongside leading agriculture scientists from The University of Queensland and CSIRO, at an upcoming global forum in Brisbane. The Global Food Forum will be held at St Laurence’s...
11 February 2014
After almost 20 years as a South-east Queensland dairy farmer, Paul Roderick sought formal agricultural training at The University of Queensland.
23 November 2012Chronic pain relief, the employment aspirations of recently-arrived refugees, urban water use and improved animal production are among new research projects announced today in which The University of Queensland and industry partners will collaborate.
30 June 2012A new portable tool to detect dengue virus-infected mosquitoes will help reduce the likelihood of human infections around the world.
21 May 2012
A group of leading Australian scientists has come together to develop lower-cost flexible optoelectronic solutions that could transform the Australian consumer electronics industry.
26 April 2012The University of Queensland’s (UQ) Professor in Hypersonic Propulsion, Michael Smart, is part of an international research team, which will be honoured at the International Congress on Aeronautics in Brisbane, Australia, on September 23-28.
7 March 2012Director of independent, grass-roots community advocacy organisation GetUp! Simon Sheikh will visit The University of Queensland as the keynote speaker in a free, half-day public symposium on ‘Listening to the Quietest Voices’ on Wednesday October...
10 October 2011UQ 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 2011CBC News executive Heaton Dyer will provide a keynote address at the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day Indigenous Voice Closing the Gap Forum on May 1 at The University of Queensland in Brisbane.
11 April 2010A dynamic exhibition exploring the frequency of ‘double ups’ in Papua New Guinea material culture opens at The University of Queensland this Friday (February 5) and runs until April 9, 2010.
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