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AIBN researchers have secured new funding to help the design of new nanomedicines, diagnostics and strengthen collaborative industry-partnered research projects.

AIBN researchers will help develop early and improved diagnostic tests to lift ovarian cancer survival rates with funding from the Medical Research Future Fund.

AIBN Director Professor Alan Rowan has been elected to the Australian Academy of Science.

A new program that aims to significantly improve supercapacitors will proceed after securing international backing.

AIBN researchers have developed a new way to produce nanoparticles that carry much higher drug concentrations.

The University of Queensland’s COVID-19 vaccine has passed another important milestone, showing the ability to raise high levels of antibodies that can neutralise the virus in early pre-clinical testing.

AIBN researchers have discovered that hard nanoparticles can enter human cells, including cancer cells, much more easily than soft ‘squishy’ nanoparticles. The findings will help to guide the design of more potent, highly targeted treatments for a range of diseases.

UQ’s Research Computing Centre (RCC) has, through some clever repurposing of decommissioned cloud computer parts, created a powerful new computer called Delena, which is housed at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN).

Nanotechnology developed to detect cancer can also identify signals released by cancer cells, possibly resulting in earlier diagnosis and better treatment.

The development of next generation solar power technology that has potential to be used as a flexible ‘skin’ over hard surfaces has moved a step closer, thanks to a significant breakthrough at AIBN.

For patients with kidney failure, the ability to replace a damaged kidney with a healthy kidney grown from their own cells could be a life saver. Now, AIBN scientists have developed a remarkable new research tool that could help make this a reality.  

AIBN researchers could use a process developed to fight Hendra virus to help manufacture treatments for other potentially deadly disease.

UQ researchers in the AIBN labs have been asked to develop a vaccine for the recent coronavirus outbreak at unprecedented speed, using new technology.

Judges make their final decisions for creative and ingenious Stem Cell Hackathon.

A new generation of indigenous Australian data scientists may soon take the research world by storm thanks to new funding to a high school student program.

PhD student Caizhi Liao has overcome more than 40 entries to claim first prize in the 2019 AIBN Science Image Contest.

Professor Lianzhou Wang and Professor Yusuke Yamauchi have been named among the world’s most influential minds for this year’s Highly Cited Research list.

An antibody that could treat immune system disorders could be on the path to clinical trials after securing $20 million in Series A funding.

AIBN's Dr Nasim Amiralian is leading a project on developing a new generation of sustainable composite materials designed specifically for electric vehicles.

Dr Hang Ta has received funding from the Heart Foundation for her research into how nanomedicines could detect and treat heart disease.