An international team led by Australian researchers has studied the genetics of pancreatic cancer, revealing it is actually four separate diseases, each with different genetic triggers and survival rates.
25 February 2016
A $25 million boost to genomics research at Queensland research institutions will help experts in their efforts to improve healthcare.
22 September 2015
Ovarian cancer cells can lock into survival mode and avoid being destroyed by chemotherapy, an international study reports.
28 May 2015
Scientists from Australia and the UK have completed the most comprehensive analysis yet of pancreatic cancer, in a study that could improve future treatments.
25 February 2015Researchers at The University of Queensland are part of a global team that has identified a new type of artificial stem cell.
10 December 2014
Queensland researchers have found that sudden “chromosomal catastrophes” may trigger a third of oesophageal tumours, the fastest rising cancer in Australia.
3 November 2014-1.jpg?itok=QN9FTh6S "UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience Director Brandon Wainwright, left, Minister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts Ian Walker, Queensland Premier Campbell Newman and lead researcher Professor Sean Grimmond.")
University of Queensland scientists have succeeded in identifying the major underlying mutations in pancreatic and ovarian cancers, two of Australia’s most ruthless cancers.
8 July 2014An international team, including scientists from The University of Queensland and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, has described the mutational processes that drive tumour development in 30 of the most common cancer types.
15 August 2013A large-scale study that defines the complexity of underlying mutations responsible for pancreatic cancers in more than 100 patients was published in Nature today.
24 October 2012THE University of Queensland has received $38.1 million in National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grants – one of the largest shares of the funding awarded to institutions across Australia.
18 October 2011Fifty two leading researchers from The University of Queensland were honoured on Sunday as leaders in their diverse fields of discovery at the inaugural Q-Index Awards.
17 May 2011A world expert in using computational science to study disease is joining The University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience after receiving a $4 million fellowship to study chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancers.
4 March 2011
A scientist who is leading an international search for cancer-causing genes is the final speaker in The University of Queensland Centenary Oration Series.
24 November 2010Australian scientists are playing a vital role in a worldwide search for cancer therapies, described in the top scientific journal Nature recently.
14 April 2010
University of Queensland (UQ) researchers will use a $5 million grant from the Queensland State Government to unlock the genetic causes of pancreatic and ovarian cancer.
20 May 2009
An international consortium of scientists, including researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ), have probed further into the human genome than ever before.
20 April 2009Scientists at The University of Queensland (UQ) will use a record research grant to give new hope to patients with two of Australia's most fatal cancers.
26 March 2009University of Queensland researchers have been awarded more than $22 million as part of the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant funding announced yesterday (October 10).
11 October 2005In a bid to offer relief to patients affected by kidney, blood and heart disease, emerging biotechnology company Nephrogenix has signed a collaborative research agreement with Australia’s National Stem Cell Centre.
2 August 2004A Queensland team of researchers from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) at UQ has played an integral role in the world-first mapping of the functional output of the mouse genome, or `transcriptome`, published today in the prestigious...
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