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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 ¹û¶³´«Ã½ 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 ¹û¶³´«Ã½ 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
¹û¶³´«Ã½ 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 ¹û¶³´«Ã½ 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 ¹û¶³´«Ã½ building.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ has climbed another place in the 2019 QS Graduate Employability Rankings, to be number 48 in the world.

12 September 2018

UniQuest, the commercialisation company of ¹û¶³´«Ã½, is today celebrating the creation of more than 100 startups.

7 September 2018
A sorghum crop.

Farmers across the world could soon access disease-resistant crops using technology discovered by researchers from ¹û¶³´«Ã½ after Brisbane start-up Nexgen Plants secured $3 million in investor backing.

21 August 2018
¹û¶³´«Ã½ hydrometallurgists Dr James Vaughan

With rising sales of electric cars, a new company developing more efficient production of essential battery materials is raising funds to build a demonstration plant.

9 July 2018
Professor Maree Smith, innovator of the peripheral nervous system pain drug commercialised by UniQuest spin-out Spinifex Pty Ltd, acquired by Novartis in 2015

UniQuest, ¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™s commercialisation company, is leading Australia and competing globally in creating spin-out companies based on academic intellectual property.

4 June 2018
Engineering and business nous in a micro-distillery

More than two centuries after Australia’s infamous Rum Rebellion, a University of Queensland chemical engineering and business graduate has started a new revolution in rum distillation that will help reinvigorate Brisbane’s passion for this ‘...

11 May 2018