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The School of Biomedical Sciences is celebrating Emeritus Professor Maree Smith who is among UQ community members recognised in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

A world-wide competition pitted human against machine in a virtual high-tech car chase last weekend.

Imagine you’re looking for your keys and you think you might have left them on the bookshelf. But when you look, you see nothing but books. A natural conclusion to draw is that the keys are not there.

The wheels are in motion to help find a cure for motor neurone disease, following the announcement of a new research grant to The University of Queensland.

Hailing from Canada, Dr Taylor Dick joined UQ in October 2017, lured by the opportunity to combine basic science and clinical research with teaching.

The School of Biomedical Sciences and Faculty of Medicine are proud to announce the recipient of an Honours scholarship to undertake Honours research in Germany in 2019.

Almost $400,000 in seed funding has been awarded to collaborative projects between The University of Queensland’s Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences.

The School of Biomedical Sciences and Faculty of Medicine are proud to announce the recipients of three Oxford Scholarships for 2019.

A team of University of Queensland optical physicists and neuroscientists has used optical tweezers, or focused beams of light, to investigate how the brain of a zebrafish reacts to gravity and motion.

A promising new therapy to stop Parkinson’s disease in its tracks has been developed at The University of Queensland.

On Saturday night, Australians who switch over to daylight saving time will get an hour less of sleep as they move their clocks forward.

Programs to monitor and support the management of marlin stocks are failing to protect the renowned sports fish, University of Queensland researchers have found.

A disrupted body clock can lead to sleep and psychiatric disorders, heart disease, type-2 diabetes and obesity, a University of Queensland review has found.

Faculty of Medicine researcher Dr Sherry Wu and Centre for Health Services Research Director Professor Len Gray have been recognised for their outstanding contributions to their fields at The University of Queensland Research Week awards.

Two Australian Museum Eureka Prizes have been awarded to University of Queensland researchers for their outstanding discoveries in the fields of health and physics.

A drug developed in the USA is helping to reduce seizures in Australian children with epilepsy, according to a University of Queensland clinical trial.

School of Biomedical Sciences lecturer Dr Julia Pagan received the four year grant as part of the Australian government scheme to attract and retain outstanding mid-career researchers in Australia.

UQ School of Biomedical Sciences’ Dr Sherry Wu and UQCCR researcher Dr Carlos Salomon are among seven Australian researchers awarded a share of $2.8 million in grants.

University of Queensland researchers are developing diagnostic tests for a genetic condition which can cause the body to fatally overheat while under a general anaesthetic.