Biomedical and clinical sciences

A University of Queensland team has become the biggest supplier of experimental mRNA vaccines and therapies in Australia, with burgeoning demand from research and industry across the country.

Dr Felicity Han says there's room for improvement when it comes to the painful injections that many people living with HIV endure each day.

The problem, according to Professor Ernst Wolvetang, is that the brain he wants to study is usually still inside someone’s skull. So that’s why he grows his own.

The University of Queensland is set to take a second-generation molecular clamp vaccine to a human trial.

Researchers at UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute have been studying ‘roadblocks’ in the brain and believe they are now on track to eliminating them – and possibly Alzheimer’s disease itself.

Using deadly spider venom to treat heart attacks and curing chlamydia in koalas are among new discoveries being developed at a national research centre headquartered at UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience.

Researchers have found a genetic link between endometriosis and ovarian cancer subtypes. Dr Sally Mortlock explains.

Tiny ‘live’ brain models are being used at The University of Queensland to study a condition causing high-functioning young people with down syndrome to suddenly regress. See how it works.

Dr Melissa Reichelt's research group has recently been designing and making their own viruses to control the cells in the heart.

Dr Lowry, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Microbial Diagnostics and Characterisation Group, is currently researching the types of respiratory viruses that have circulated during the COVID-19 pandemic.