University of Queensland researchers have secured almost $31 million from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) to tackle health and medical challenges in Australia and around the world.

21 March 2023

A landmark research project led by The University of Queensland is aiming to improve the cardiovascular health of young children with cerebral palsy (CP) by trialling a new running program.

6 October 2021

Improving outcomes for children and teenagers with brain cancer will be the focus of Australia’s first research centre aimed solely at tackling the cancer in young people.

28 March 2019
Professor Stewart Trost of the UQ Centre for Research on Exercise, Physical Activity and Health.

Playing active video games could help overweight and obese children lose weight, a University of Queensland study has found.

18 March 2014

Queensland’s Indigenous communities could hold the key to the improved treatment of one of the world’s major health problems – Type 2 diabetes.

7 November 2002

UQ research has found links between a lack of exercise and childhood and adolescent obesity.

28 October 2002