Pulling the pieces together to see the bigger picture and asking the burning questions.
The IMB nurtures an environment that fosters breakthrough science through collaboration, innovative ideas and taking calculated risk.
We push through the boundaries, go beyond the known, the safe and the normal, using cutting edge technologies to discover, transform and translate.
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Our discoveries create change for the global health of our people and environment.
- Dr Nathan Palpant studies human heart development using stem cells, to generate beating cardiac muscle cells in a dish. For this work, he received a UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award in recognition of the contribution he has made to an international effort to fight cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death globally.
- Researchers have built molecular switches that can control the immune response to many common allergens