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Pioneering pathway welcomes first-year medical students

The first cohort of “home grown’’ doctors, trained exclusively in the Central Queensland and Wide Bay regions, has begun first-year studies through The ÄôСÓêÊÓƵ3·Ö25Ãë of Queensland’s Rural Clinical School.

5 February 2025
First-year medical students with Professor Riitta Partanen.

New technique to detect dark matter using atomic clocks and lasers

A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter in the cosmos.

5 February 2025
A photograph of the night sky with the Milky Way galaxy stretching out.
A koala sitting on a tree branch

UQ researchers have created new tools that could change how conservation experts monitor and protect some of Australia’s most endangered species.

15 October 2024
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Two hundred people are being recruited for a major study investigating how diet and exercise can help those living with metastatic breast cancer.

11 October 2024
A pregnant woman holds a coffee mug and looks through sheer curtains out a window.

A UQ-led study has failed to find any strong links between drinking coffee during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental difficulties in children.

10 October 2024
Dr Chris O'Brien holding an avocado plant in pot.

A tissue-culture propagation technology developed at UQ to grow hundreds of plants from a single cutting is set to bolster avocado production across Latin America.

9 October 2024
A male scientist in a lab coat and goggles holds a pipette above a large black spider in a container.

A UQ-led project to develop the first-ever drug to treat heart attack and protect donor hearts will move to human clinical trials, after receiving $17.8 million in funding from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF).

7 October 2024
Male researcher under red light in a quantum physics lab.

The ÄôСÓêÊÓƵ3·Ö25Ãë of Queensland will be at the forefront of developing quantum technologies on a global stage, after securing more than $29 million through the Queensland Quantum and Advanced Technologies Strategy.

4 October 2024
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More than 1,400 experts have visited Brisbane for the world’s only scientific meeting dedicated to influenza, chaired by UQ's Associate Professor Kirsty Short.

4 October 2024

UQ has launched its inaugural Disability Inclusion Research and Innovation Plan to enhance disability research culture, capabilities, and collaboration across the university.

4 October 2024
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A high-tech building with rooms to mimic environments from rainforests to deserts will help Australian plant scientists and industry improve crop productivity and secure future food supplies.

4 October 2024
Two Indigenous story books fanned out on a white desktop. One is titled Out in the Bush, the other is For Our Elders.

A project co-designed by community and UQ researchers has set a benchmark for how school curriculums can reflect Indigenous knowledge.

4 October 2024
An award recipient holding up a large cheque

A PhD candidate whose research aims to address the challenges faced by families of children with temporary feeding tubes has won the UQ 2024 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) final.

3 October 2024