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- Scientist Without Borders: Marga Gual Soler joins us at Real Scientists
- Researchers at UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience have been awarded five grants worth $2.4 million to work with industry on projects such as developing eco-friendly insesticides for crops and treatments for pain from spider venom.
- Emily Furlong of Manly West will be working alongside some of Queensland’s best scientists on antibiotic-resistance projects.
- Two postgraduate students from The University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience will learn from some of the world’s best scientific minds after securing places at prestigious US laboratories.
- UQ researchers have reprogrammed adult kidney cells to act as stem cells to repair damaged kidneys.
- Minister for Health Tanya Plibersek and Minister for Mental Health and Ageing Mark Butler have announced funding to support six new dementia research projects.
- Scientists at UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience are leading the way in seeking new drugs to give medical experts better ways of preventing infection by legionella bacteria and treating legionnaires' disease.
- IMB’s Molecular Cell Biology Division Head, Professor Alpha Yap, features in the latest edition of leading international scientific publication, The Journal of Cell Biology.
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