Imagine if doctors could tailor cancer treatments for individual patients, training their immune system to recognise and precisely target their tumour cells without harming healthy tissue.
In the first collaboration of its kind, UQ’s Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining is advising and working with some of the world’s leading mining companies to improve the lives of people affected by resettlement.
First-time blood donors don’t always make it from booking an appointment to actually showing up. To improve attendance, a UQ researcher has continued a 15-year collaboration with the Australian Red Cross Blood Service to allay donors’ fears and bolster attendance rates.
UQ researchers are working with hospitals, NGOs and industry to develop non-invasive technology for diagnosing illness, to boost mass health screening and minimise disease.
With the failure of a ‘one size fits all’ approach, UQ researchers are collaborating with The George Institute for Global Health to create a genomic resource to help develop personalised treatment options for septic shock.
The crown-of-thorns starfish is one of the Great Barrier Reef’s fiercest enemies, a voracious predator of the corals that build the reef. For an already struggling reef, these starfish pose an enormous threat.
UQ's Emeritus Professor Jake Najman is behind one of the longest-running studies of mothers and children in the world, producing results that have changed the way medical researchers think about what 'passes down the line'.