Biomedical and clinical sciences

Professor Robert Parton explains how nanotechnology is being used to target diseased cells.

A UQ researcher believes the global magic mushroom industry is where the medical cannabis industry was 15 years ago. Could they be used medically in future?

“The most insane thing I have ever done” is how Dr Michael Wagels described the world-first reconstruction of 36 centimetres of a patient’s tibia.

To celebrate Research Week 2018, UQ is proud to share how UQ research is creating change, right across the world, every day. Discover how our researchers are collaborating with research partners both in Australia and abroad to tackle substance abuse head-on.

A UQ team is using an unlikely approach to develop medicines for chronic pain, epilepsy and stroke – venom.

UQ researchers are working hard to help our daughters in the battle against endometriosis, a crippling disease that affects 10 per cent of women of child-bearing age.

What if dementia could be prevented? UQ PhD economics candidate and 3MT finalist Sabrina Lenzen believes this may be possible.

A UQ researcher is working to change a toxic attitude towards antivenom manufacturing, which adds to a mounting death toll and plunges communities into poverty.

Building on forty years of existing research, UQ neuroscientists are now conducting clinical trials to prove that exercise can prevent and reverse cognitive decline, such as dementia.

UQ's Professor David Cliff is working to help stop deadly black lung disease before it begins.