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Industry collaborations help ensure the best in discovery and development

UniQuest, ҹɫÊÓƵ’s commercialisation company, will partner with Pfizer’s Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) in the hope of creating and developing a drug candidate for the treatment of cancer.

3 June 2019

Facebook has joined forces with Australian university experts to devise policy that better manages online harmful content and hate speech in the Asia-Pacific region.

29 May 2019

The lifeblood of Timor-Leste’s agricultural sector – smallholder farming – is to be bolstered by collaborative University of Queensland-led research.

20 May 2019
Front row: ҹɫÊÓƵ School of Civil Engineering head Professor Simon Washington, ҹɫÊÓƵ Director of Research Partnerships Joe McLean, VLC CEO Tim Veitch. ҹɫÊÓƵ's Dr Jake Whitehead (back row, third from left)

How we get around our cities and towns could be revolutionised through to a new partnership between ҹɫÊÓƵ and industry.

30 April 2019
Workers on site at the ҹɫÊÓƵ Warwick Solar Farm.

Construction of the $125 million ҹɫÊÓƵ Warwick Solar Farm is under way, bringing an injection of economic activity to the town and the Darling Downs region.

18 April 2019
ilab's Germinate Plus participants will have up to $30,000 in legal services available to them.

Up-and-coming entrepreneurs in a University of Queensland accelerator program are being given access to expert legal services – and will only have to pay the bill if their startup is a success.

7 March 2019
Dr Richard Gordon and assistant in his lab

Researchers from ҹɫÊÓƵ will investigate the potential of existing drugs to be repurposed to fight Parkinson’s disease thanks to a new research grant.

7 March 2019
An operator prepares to launch a drone.

Researchers are launching a $9 million study which aims to embed ethics and the law into autonomous defence systems, such as self-driving military vehicles.

1 March 2019
A visiting student from Africa examines a gem stone.

Australia’s world-leading expertise in small-scale mining is being showcased to 30 emerging leaders from the African mining sector as they visit the Gladstone and Emerald regions in Central Queensland.

26 February 2019
A bucket of mixed colour broken glass which can be used in the process.

A new process turning waste glass into everyday products could save tens of millions of tonnes of glass from going to landfill every year.

22 February 2019
mechanical sensors on a silicon chip

Quantum sensors being developed at ҹɫÊÓƵ could revolutionise navigation and communications in unmanned and autonomous vehicles.

1 February 2019

A new collaboration will help feed the world’s growing demand for poultry and eggs, while minimising the risk to international public health from animal-to-human-diseases.

24 January 2019
ҹɫÊÓƵ alumnus Nick Georgiou works his laptop at a Brandtools desk

Just a week into a University of Queensland accelerator program for startups, one of the participants has attracted his first paying customer.

23 January 2019

A streamlined patient risk assessment tool developed by ҹɫÊÓƵ is set to dramatically reduce the amount of paperwork for nursing staff, leaving them more time for patient care.

12 September 2018
Jacaranda trees bloom in front of a sandstone ҹɫÊÓƵ building.

ҹɫÊÓƵ has climbed another place in the 2019 QS Graduate Employability Rankings, to be number 48 in the world.

12 September 2018