UQ and Europe

Following a competitive selection process, 5 outstanding initiatives have received funding totalling $47,000 in the latest UQ Global Strategy and Partnership Seed Funding Scheme.

University of Queensland researchers have found a way to more efficiently convert sugarcane into a building block of aviation fuel and other products.

IMB researcher Dr Clara Jiang was invited to present her research into how genomics data can be used to explore opportunities to repurpose drugs at the Falling Walls Science Summit 2022 in Berlin.

A $15 million collaboration between UQ and the German Research Foundation (DFG), including research from Justun Liebig University (JLU), will accelerate genetic improvements in cereal and pulse crops.

Queensland will become a global mRNA vaccine hub with a $280 million Translational Science Hub to be established in Queensland. The Hub will link leading Queensland researchers with scientists at the Sanofi mRNA Centre of Excellence in France and the United States.

Researchers from UQ, Argentina and Spain have created the world's first successful donkey embryo using IVF, which could save dozens of endangered donkey species.