Undergraduate research experiences
Enhance your undergraduate program with a research experience.
By working with our academics and partners on laboratory projects, you'll experience working in a formal research environment and discover the types of investigations that are being undertaken in your field of interest.
To gain extra laboratory experience you can choose research-intensive courses and take part in summer and winter research projects, and exchange programs.
Download our Overview of the undergraduate research opportunities and how to identify suitable research labs for your study below.
Current SBMS undergraduate research opportunities
Please note that there may be other research opportunities that are not on this list.
Students are encouraged to contact individual academics for more information.
Name of the academic | Type(s) of research opportunity | Project titles |
Dr Louise Ainscough | Undergraduate research (semester 1 or 2), honours | Understanding and improving how students learn in the biomedical sciences. |
Dr Lisa Akison | SCIE projects, winter/summer research, Honours |
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A/Prof Stephen Anderson | SCIE projects, Honours | Investigating how students learn about complex biomedical systems. |
Dr Awais Saleem Babri | SCIE projects, winter/summer research, Honours |
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A/Prof Karin Borges | SCIE projects, winter/summer research, Honours | Developing new strategies to treat epilepsy |
A/Prof Jo Bowles | SCIE projects, Honours |
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Dr Danielle Burgess | SCIE projects, winter/summer research, Honours | Understanding the diversity in how students learn and developing best-practice student support in biomedical subjects |
A/Prof Richard Clark | SCIE projects, winter/summer research, Honours |
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Dr Sean Coakley | SCIE projects, winter/summer research, Honours | Discovering the cellular mechanisms of neuroprotection |
Prof Elizabeth Coulson | SCIE projects, Honours projects | How do interactions between p75NTR, basal forebrain and the glymphatic system play a role in neurodegenerative disease? |
Dr Taylor Dick | SCIE projects, Winter/Summer research projects, Honours | Multiple projects related to neuromuscular function in health, aging, and disease |
Dr Luli Faber | SCIE projects, Winter/Summer research projects, Honours |
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Dr Laura Fenlon | SCIE projects, Honours projects |
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A/Prof Sebastian Furness & Dr Farhad Dehkohda | SCIE projects, Honours |
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A/Prof Lisa Kaminskas | Honours |
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Dr Judit Kibedi | SCIE projects, Winter/Summer research projects, Honours |
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Dr John Lee | SCIE projects, winter/summer research, Honours | Identifying new immune targets for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases |
A/Prof Dominic Ng | SCIE projects, Honours |
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Dr Pranesh Padmanabhan | Honours | Advanced imaging to understand the crosstalk between the immune and nervous systems in brain disorders |
Dr Julia Pagan | SCIE projects, winter/summer research, Honours | Understanding how mitochondrial dysfunction causes multiple human diseases |
Dr Niwanthi Rajapakse | Honours | Uncover Novel Treatments for Cardiorenal Disease |
Dr Melissa Reichelt | SCIE projects, winter research, Honours |
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A/Prof Johan Rosengren | SCIE projects, winter/summer research, Honours |
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A/Prof Marc Ruitenberg | SCIE projects, Honours |
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Dr David Simmons | Honours | Fighting fire with fire: Endogenous retroviral elements as modulators of immunity at the feto-maternal interface |
A/Prof Carl Stephan | Honours |
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Em. Prof Maree T Smith | Honours | Analgesic efficacy profiling of novel compounds from drug discovery in rat models of neuropathic (nerve) pain |
A/Prof Rodrigo Suarez | SCIE projects, Honours |
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Dr Jacky Suen | Honours |
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A/Prof Rohan Teasdale | SCIE projects, winter/summer research, Honours | Protein trafficking in disease |
Prof Walter Thomas, Dr Melissa Reichelt | SCIE projects, Honours | Understanding how cancer therapy causes cardiac dysfunction; The role of growth factor receptors in cardiac function |
Dr Jacob Thorstensen | SCIE projects, winter/summer research, Honours | Using advanced electromyography techniques to study spinal cord reflexes in humans |
A/Prof Kylie Tucker | SCIE projects, winter/summer research, Honours | Musculoskeletal features associated with the development of scoliosis |
A/Prof Jana Vukovic | SCIE projects, Honours |
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Prof Trent Woodruff | SCIE projects, winter/summer research, Honours | Exploring the pharmacology of complement drugs for inflammatory disease |
Dr Sherry Wu | SCIE projects, winter/summer research, Honours |
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Research-intensive courses
SCIE3220: Biomedical Science Research Skills
This course will present students with the oportunity to develop core research skills in the field of biomedical science. Students will develop vital research skills such as safe laboratory techniques, proper record keeping, different forms of communication in science and ethics in science. They will also carry out a research project under the supervision of a researcher in their research laboratory.
Learn more about SCIE3220: Biomedical Science Research Skills
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SCIE3221: Biomedical Science Research Project
This course will present students with the opportunity to undertake an undergraduate research project in the field of biomedical science, under the supervision of a researcher. The research project will be carried out over 6 to 8 weeks in the summer semester.
Learn more about SCIE3221: Biomedical Science Research Project
Honours projects
Do you want to specialise? Take your studies and ambition to a higher level? Learn more about how you can complete your Honours with us.
UQ Summer and Winter Research Programs
Undergraduates who have completed at least one year of study at the time of application, and master's by coursework students, can apply for a UQ Winter Research Scholarship.
Find out more about the Summer and Winter research projects offered by the School of Biomedical Sciences.