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  • QBI 2025/2026 Research Impact Report

    Published on: 13 May 2026
    Your contributions are transforming possibility into progress. Thanks to your kindness, our researchers can push the boundaries of neuroscience discovery. Through you, they receive the freedom to follow the science to make a lasting human impact.

  • Refining depression screening for people living with dementia

    Published on: 15 April 2026
    Clinician‑researchers at UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have developed a new tool designed to more accurately screen for depression in people with dementia. 

  • A quiet legacy

    The Terry and Maureen Hopkins Foundation has donated $800,000 to QBI’s Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research to support research into new dementia therapies using therapeutic ultrasound.

  • The science of addiction uncovered

    Published on: 31 March 2026
    Does addiction result from the brain or behaviour? This is the question QBI sought to answer during Brain Awareness Week 2026 at a compelling free public lecture featuring scientists and those with lived experience. 

  • Freedom to follow the science

    Published on: 13 March 2026
    This Brain Awareness Week, it’s worth asking a simple question: Where do the breakthroughs in brain science actually begin? 

  • Cellular changes linked to depression related fatigue

    Published on: 11 March 2026
    QBI researchers may have discovered a new way to diagnose and treat major depression at the earliest stage of the condition, giving patients the best opportunity for recovery.

  • Senator Helen Polley praises Queensland Brain Institute in Parliament

    Published on: 5 March 2026
    Senator Helen Polley, Senator for Tasmania, has this week praised the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) in a speech to Parliament, highlighting the Institute’s collaborative approach and the global impact of its neuroscience research. 

  • Westpac Scholar advancing stroke recovery using brain stimulation

    Published on: 24 February 2026
    UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) PhD candidate Chantelle Jackson has received a 2026 Westpac Future Leaders Scholarship to advance effective, accessible stroke-recovery treatments to benefit Australians in regional and remote communities.

  • How Australia’s new APsyK Bank is powering progress in mental health

    Published on: 16 February 2026
    Professor Thomas Burne explains how the new Australian Psychiatric Research Knowledge Bank could speed up discoveries and improve mental health care for everyone. 

  • How personal background and brain health influence stroke recovery

    Published on: 9 February 2026
    QBI research has contributed to a worldwide study providing essential groundwork to develop tailored rehabilitation strategies for cognitive impairment in stroke and reveals a fundamental change in how cognitive problems are understood.

  • The RNA discovery that could slow disease and ageing

    Published on: 22 January 2026
    Researchers in QBI's Zuryn laboratory have found that a microRNA, called miR-71, helps protect the body from stress caused by damaged mitochondria.

  • QBI Art in Neuroscience Winners

    An image of the core of a dead neurosphere has taken first prize in the 2025 QBI Art in Neuroscience Image Competition.

  • Ideas Grants to propel scientific discovery

    Published on: 15 January 2026
    Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) researchers will propel scientific discovery into DNA mutations, treating human movement disorders and improving stroke outcomes after securing funding from the Australian Government.

  • UQ scientists uncover ‘skin cast’ that protects neurons

    Published on: 8 January 2026
    Researchers at UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) and the School of Biomedical Sciences have discovered a nanoscale molecular scaffold that helps protect neuronal communication.

  • Human trial finds ultrasound treatment for dementia is safe

    Published on: 16 December 2025
    QBI researchers have shown scanning ultrasound is safe and well-tolerated in a first-in-human pilot study—an important step toward Alzheimer’s disease treatments.

  • From competition to discovery: Brain Bee students join QBI labs

    UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) welcomed four exceptional high school students for a unique, week-long internship, immersed in cutting-edge research. The students earned their place by competing in the Australian Brain Bee Challenge.

  • QBI 2025 Awards and Achievements

    The Queensland Brain Institute celebrated the close of a highly successful 2025 by acknowledging the latest achievements of researchers, students and staff. 

  • Family endowment empowers future clinician-researchers

    The Dr Gerald and Suzanne Murphy Travel Award is a fund designed to help early career clinician-researchers share discoveries on the global stage. The 2026 recipient is Dr Duy Duan (John) Nguyen, who will use the award to attend an international conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and related neurodegenerative diseases in Copenhagen.

  • How our brains make sense of the world

    Published on: 14 November 2025
    Researchers in the Mattingley lab are studying how the brain combines different types of predictions about what we see and where we see it to understand how these expectations affect brain activity.

  • QBI researchers leading collaboration and innovation in neuroscience

    Two of UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) research leaders explain why the annual Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS) Conference is the cornerstone event for the neuroscience community.

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