RESEARCH in Queensland has been given a boost with the opening of three new facilities which will be used in the study of plastic made from sugarcane, nano-chips to speed up computers and new DNA based bio-medicines.
01/06/2009
Some of Queensland's health and medical research institutes now have access to a $30 million venture capital fund under a new agreement brokered by the State Government.
26/10/2009
A NEW study undertaken by researchers at Monash University, has shown the overall incidence of cancer among Queensland’s fire fighters is no higher than expected when compared to the general Queensland population.
05/06/2009
TISSUE Therapies has won a Queensland Government Smart State Grant for the commercial development of new wound healing products using the single protein formulation of VitroGro.
10/07/2009
QUEENSLAND Compound Library (QCL) has announced an expansion of its microplate management capability with the addition of a second asmStore module from Hamilton Storage Technologies.
03/08/2009
QUEENSLAND has announced it will host the newly established Australian Future Forensics Innovation Network (AFFIN).
15/10/2009
The University of Queensland (UQ) received $1.66 million in funding from the Federal government's Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) scheme.
03/12/2009
Queensland is set to have an AUD$354 million Translational Research Institute (TRI) built in Brisbane that will focus on manufacturing and development of biopharmaceuticals and treatments.
21/05/2010
THE UNIVERSITY of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Life Technologies have announced a strategic scientific research collaboration to study pancreatic and ovarian cancer in Australia.
10/08/2009
The University of Queensland (UQ) has opened The Centre for Infectious Disease Research (CIDR), a new research centre focused on infectious diseases.
01/12/2009
THE UNIVERSITY of Queensland (UQ) has been awarded a $5m government grant to establish a world-class centre designed to map the genetic makeup of some cancers and identify the specific genes which cause the disease.
20/05/2009
THE FEDERAL Government has granted the Princess Alexandra Hospital $7.5m to establish a Prostate Cancer Research Centre, which will be hosted by the Queensland University of technology (QUT).
19/01/2009
Researchers at the University of Queensland (UQ) have sequenced the canola genome which Bayer Crop Science hopes can bring better seed to market sooner and more cheaply.
10/11/2009
The Australian Stem Cell Centre (ASCC) in Melbourne, has announced funding for six projects ranging from Alzheimer’s to stem cell manufacturing and bioinformatics under its Strategic Development Fund.
13/11/2009
Australia’s most distinguished health and medical researchers have been recognised for their outstanding contribution to medical research.
12/03/2010
Several researchers at the University of Queensland (UQ) have received funding as part of the Smart Futures Premier's Fellowship for their efforts in projects ranging from new vaccine technologies to detecting molecules involved in causing stroke.
22/04/2010
Twelve Australian scientific research groups have been awarded a total of AUD$200,000 in grants to participate in the European Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES).
15/12/2009
University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have been awarded more than $8.6million in National Health and Medical Research Council funding, including two AUD$4 million Australia Fellowships and a Development Grant.
11/02/2010
The University of Queensland's Professor Scott O'Neill has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in recognition of his work in symbiotic biology.
16/04/2010
Researchers granted a new Queensland Government Fellowship will focus on trying to combat an extreme super bug even more aggressive than resistant Staphylococcus strains.
19/02/2010