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Older man and woman exercising at home with elastics and weights.

An international study led by a ΢Åĸ£Àûresearcher has found frailty increases a person’s risk of dementia, but early intervention may be the key to prevention.

12 November 2024
Professor Keith Chappell in the lab using a centrifuge

Recruitment is underway for a clinical trial testing a vaccine candidate produced with ΢Åĸ£Àû’s molecular clamp technology against life-threatening respiratory viruses.

7 November 2024
A black and white image of a pair of old leather boxing gloves hanging against a brick wall

΢Åĸ£Àûresearchers have uncovered the hidden history of concussion in sport, finding the brain-trauma crisis has a long and complex past.

5 November 2024
a person lied on a bed with their feet in a round machine and another person stands nearby

Queenslanders who want to give up smoking can access free nicotine replacement therapies and potentially life-saving lung cancer screening by participating in a new study.

1 November 2024
Three people standing on a stage, one of them holding a trophy

A First Nations ΢Åĸ£Àûacademic is aiming to help address the under representation of Indigenous people in Australia’s pharmacy workforce.

31 October 2024
A man with greying hair and beard wearing a navy shirt stands with sandstone columns behind him.

An Aboriginal epidemiologist and a leading gynaecologic oncologist have been elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

25 October 2024
A man and a woman on a date, the woman holding a drink

΢Åĸ£Àûresearch has found the traits people value in a romantic partner can influence their dating choices.

15 October 2024
Woman wearing head scarf power walking through park. Adobe

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 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
An illustration of red virus cells against a light blue background.

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
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A PhD candidate whose research aims to address the challenges faced by families of children with temporary feeding tubes has won the ΢Åĸ£Àû2024 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) final.

3 October 2024
Dr David Klyne fits Wolbert van den Hoorn with a sleep monitoring device on his head

A University of Queensland study investigating the links between sleep and pain could fundamentally change the way doctors and clinicians treat people with chronic pain.

2 October 2024
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΢Åĸ£Àûresearchers have made a significant step towards enabling women with epilepsy safer access to a common and highly effective anti-seizure medication.

1 October 2024

Completing a PhD is no easy feat, but throw in significant health challenges and that makes the academic achievements of one ΢Åĸ£Àûgraduate even more remarkable.

19 September 2024
a man in a white lab coat sits at a bench holding a container of small round green fruit

΢Åĸ£Àûresearch has confirmed antioxidant properties in an Australian bushfood used by Indigenous people for generations.

18 September 2024