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The Queensland Brain Institute's Dr Michael Piper has been awarded the AW Campbell Award by the Australian Neuroscience Society.

QBI's Deputy Director Professor Pankaj Sah has been named as one of Australia’s seven most distinguished health and medical researchers.

Queensland Brain Institute neuroscientists have discovered the crucial role a specific gene plays in forming the neural tube, the earliest identifiable structure in the developing brain and an essential precursor to the entire central nervous system.

The Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) has established formal research ties with Japan’s most prestigious medical school, the Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo.

A unique public forum will be held at the Queensland Brain Institute on Tuesday, 25 November to commemorate the election of another five Queensland scientists to the Australian Academy of Science.

The University of Queensland deep sea research has dug up an insight into the evolutionary past of some of the earliest animals.

Astrophysicists peer into the far corners of deep space for dark matter, but for neuroscientists at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) exploring the unknown is much closer to home.

Researchers at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have discovered an important new link between how we see an action – and the way our mind processes that visual stimulation.

Researchers from UQ's Queensland Brain Institute will delve further into the mysteries of how our brains works thanks to more than $7.5m in funding.

Neuroscientists at The University of Queensland have discovered a new way to explain how emotional events can sometimes lead to disturbing long-term memories.

Better chronic pain relief could be possible in the future, according to research announced today by scientists at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute.

A neuroscientist at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute has found a way to combat a debilitating illness that affects an estimated 50,000 people a year in tropical regions.

Standing at a height of four storeys, Out of Mind, the contemporary artwork on display in UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), is certainly not out of sight.

A Queensland Brain Institute neuroscientist at UQ is working on ways to reduce neuronal loss in the brain of a person with Alzheimer's disease.

Leading neuroscientists from Australia, China, and the USA will visit The University of Queensland this week to join Queensland Brain Institute neuroscientists in a three-day symposium.

Former Australian Brain Bee Challenge finalist Sophie Hill continues to make an impressive start to what looks like being a long and successful science career.

The Queensland Minister for Tourism Regional Development and Industry, Desley Boyle, today opened The University of Queensland's new $2.5m “All Weather Bee Flight Facility” at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI).

Seventeen-year-old Jayson Jeganathan from Baulkham Hills in Sydney is the 2008 Australian Brain Bee Champion after an exciting battle of neuroscience knowledge at UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute.

Nine of the brightest Year 10 and 11 students from Australia and New Zealand will be competing in their knowledge of neuroscience at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) at St Lucia, Brisbane this weekend.

Sir Gustav Nossal praised 60 years of positive outcomes achieved through global health initiatives when he delivered the inaugural Peter Goodenough Memorial Lecture to more than 150 guests at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) on Tuesday (15 July).