A semi-trailer will be converted into the world’s first mobile lung cancer screening facility to help boost early detection and increase survival rates in rural and remote Queensland where access to specialists is limited.
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.
Cancer is a leading cause of death in Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Read how an Indigenous UQ professor aims to change this.
New research from UQ is exploring how algorithms and artificial intelligence-based systems can provide earlier, more accurate and potentially life-saving patient information to doctors and clinicians.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus does not infect blood vessels, despite the high risk of blood clots to COVID-19 patients, University of Queensland researchers have found.
