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Queensland Science Minister Ian Walker MP has announced a prestigious $2.5M philanthropically funded international fellowship at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute to tackle stroke-induced dementia.

A Queensland Brain Institute researcher’s respected career designing unmanned aerial vehicles based on biologically inspired systems has seen him elected onto the Australian Academy of Science Council.

The November round of Australian Research Council (ARC) funding resulted in support for three ARC Discovery Projects and one ARC DECRA Fellowship at QBI.

A discovery at QBI has identified how little information the brain needs in order to navigate and accurately estimate location.

QBI marine neuroscientists are plunging to new depths in submersibles on the Great Barrier Reef and in the Coral Sea.

The Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) at The University of Queensland today was awarded almost $7 million in funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

QBI scientists at are making progress in understanding a rare and deadly form of infant epilepsy with hopes of one day discovering a cure.

The world’s largest study into the genetics behind human height has discovered the trait’s vast complexity.

Mantis shrimp eyes are inspiring the design of new cameras that can detect a variety of cancers and visualise brain activity.

Birds have been found to display superior judgement of their body width compared to humans, in research to help design autonomous aircraft navigation systems.

Professor Patrick Sullivan of the University of North Carolina delivered the annual Peter Goodenough Memorial Lecture on Wednesday 10 September at QBI.

Research institutes at The University of Queensland (UQ) hosted 24 Chinese students from Fudan University and Wenzhou Medical College for six weeks, enabling closer ties between the institutions.

Three senior researchers at QBI have together received more than $2.3 million in funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

New insights into learning and memory formation and how this is impaired in Alzheimer’s disease may be possible thanks to a new method that visualises and identifies newly created proteins in the body.

The world’s leading researchers will work together to tackle dementia after The University of Queensland’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) joined with the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Biophysics (IBP) to create a research centre.

In good weather for ducks, 20 researchers at QBI took the plunge today and braved the Ice Bucket Challenge in the name of raising funds to fight motor neuron disease (MND).

Neuroscientist Professor Justin Marshall has been awarded a Laureate Fellowship under the Australian Research Council’s most prestigious research grants scheme.

The Hand Heart Pocket - The Charity of Freemasons Queensland - Gala Evening will bring together some of the world’s leading musical performances in support of Alzheimer’s disease research and care.