Brain injury and disease

Improving outcomes for children and teenagers with brain cancer will be the focus of Australia’s first research centre aimed solely at tackling the cancer in young people.

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

Our blood can be used to uncover genetic secrets inside the brain, according to new research from University of Queensland scientists.

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.

Cancer biologist Dr Laura Genovesi is the recipient of a 2017 Early Career Fellowship to progress vital research into medulloblastoma, the most common type of malignant childhood brain cancer.

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.