Brain injury and disease

Can a brain scan reveal whether someone has depression?

Nearly 20 years ago, a family established an endowed fellowship to fund research on brain cancer and pain, inspired by their son and brother’s experience. Their support has enabled impactful work at IMB, into preventing cancer therapy side effects.

Researchers have solved the structure of a complex molecular machine responsible for sorting and transporting cellular cargo.

Husband and wife researchers at The University of Queensland were appointed Members of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for their significant service to medicine.

The Director of The University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) will help steer a national initiative striving to double survival rates for people with brain cancer over the next decade.

IMB and Cure Brain Cancer Foundation are partnering to overcome the scourge of paediatric brain tumours

An international team of researchers has found a drug previously approved to treat breast cancer could also be used to shrink medulloblastoma, a common form of childhood brain tumour.

A small protein from the venom of a funnel-web spider could protect the brain from stroke-induced injury has been discovered.

The young inventor behind a UQ discovery that could benefit patients living with inflammatory diseases has been awarded the 2016 Research Australia Discovery Award.

IMB research could lead to a new treatment for Parkinson’s disease, with future potential applications to nearly 50 other disorders.