Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery

IMB researchers have developed a new class of painkillers based on the 'love' hormone oxytocin to treat pain caused by IBS and IBD

IMB researchers are measuring electric currents through individual channels in cells to understand how toxins cause pain.

IMB researchers have teamed up to develop precise, personalised drugs for epilepsy patients

The assassin bug lies in wait in plants, poised to ambush its prey. Related to cicadas and aphids, it has a large appetite, catching any unsuspecting invertebrates, like caterpillars or bees, for its next meal.

The ‘electric caterpillar’ is a public menace to gardeners in Townsville and the North-East of Australia but IMB researchers are looking beyond their painful stings to their potential as sources for new medicines and insecticides.

IMB researchers have found how dietary choline travels through the blood-brain barrier - a discovery that could be used to help deliver drugs into the brain to treat neurological disorders.

A molecule sourced from funnel web spider venom shows promise as a safe and effective drug for heart attacks.

IMB won a third of the accolades at the Life Sciences Queensland GENE Awards

Did you know venom – a toxic substance injected by one animal into another – has evolved around 100 times?