News

With much of society now effectively in lockdown, how will we know when it’s safe to resume something like normality?

Ian Henderson, Professor of Microbiology, and Dr Larisa Labzin, Virologist, discuss COVID-19 – immunity, vaccine development, epidemiology and what we do and don’t know.

March is Endometriosis Awareness Month, shining a light on this debilitating disease, affecting 1 in 9 women of reproductive age. IMB's Professor Grant Montgomery and Dr Sally Mortlock and their team are among those pioneering endometriosis research.

Scientists have discovered a possible link between Parkinson’s disease and a gene impacted by a neurotoxin found in blue-green algae.

Professor Naomi Wray has received the Elizabeth Blackburn Investigator Grant Award for Leadership in Basic Science from the National Health and Medical Research Council.

Is it a MAIT or foe? MAIT cells can help fight bacteria, but without the right signals, can contribute to cancer and autoimmune diseases.

Compounds containing metals could hold the key to the next generation of antibiotics to combat the growing threat of global antibiotic resistance.

IMB has a new Director - Professor Ian Henderson. Ian has devoted his working life to studying antibiotic resistance and develop solutions to this urgent global challenge.

Four IMB women will share how they are tackling big problems such as obesity and cardiovascular disease, stroke, spinal cord injuries and sheep parasites through the Queensland Women in STEM competition.

Institute for Molecular Bioscience researcher Chloe Yap will study in the US after successfully applying for a 2020 Fulbright scholarship.

The Institute for Molecular Bioscience is searching for spiders to help our venom research search for new medicines.

IMB supporter Dr Rosamond Siemon, who endowed a scholarship and bequest to our kidney research in 2006, passed away aged 98.

Tracking the growth of brain cancers non-invasively in real time will forge ahead thanks to a donation from the Brainchild Foundation to UQ researchers.

Institute for Molecular Bioscience researchers have been named on the prestigious list - Highly Cited Researchers 2019.

Institute for Molecular Bioscience researchers are heading to one of the coldest parts of the planet to help women lead, influence and contribute to international policy and decision-making.

Mr Julian Simmonds MP visited IMB today to announce $35 million in funding to establish the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science (CIPPS).

Research into using a cannabis compound as an antibiotic has been boosted by a government grant to an Australian biotech company to collaborate with an Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) superbugs researcher.

Two up-and-coming IMB researchers have received nearly $1.5 million from the Australian Research Council (ARC) to improve honeybee health and our knowledge of how cells work at the molecular level.

Mud taken from an estuarine nearly 20 years ago could hold the secret to a new painkiller.

It’s no secret that the world has a problem with plastic. An IMB research team examined the future of plastics and how tiny species of algae and bacteria may help us produce more environmentally friendly versions.