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What if rust happened 600 times more slowly? AIBN researchers have engineered a single application ‘smart’ self-repairing coating to dramatically extend rust protection for buildings, bridges, cars and other steel components.

What does an extracellular vesicle have in common with a pineapple? 

Four AIBN researchers have secured more than $4.3 million in the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) 2026 Future Fellowships scheme.

The first three months as AIBN’s director has confirmed what Professor Kris Thurecht believed when he took the job – AIBN’s great strength is its people.

New group leader Dr Zeinab Khalil is searching nature’s smallest organisms for solutions to some of society’s biggest challenges

Meet Dr Peng Chen, a new Group Leader at AIBN. He is leading a research team focused on creating safer and more efficient materials for solar energy

Dr Yunqing Kang, an expert in advanced nanomaterials has taken up the challenge to produce hydrogen fuel using sunlight, seawater and discarded plastics

UQ's Molecular Clamp technology developed at AIBN and UQ’s School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences has been recognised in the 2026 Australian Financial Review's Higher Education Awards

New approaches to treat cancer have been given a boost of over $4 million with two AIBN researchers awarded NHMRC Investigator grants

UQ has been named as a key research node for CoRE-MitoGT - the Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence for Mitochondrial Genome Therapeutics

An average PhD thesis would take 9 hours to present, but in the 3MT contest, students are limited to just 3 minutes!

AIBN researchers have identified a new antiviral approach that targets host cells rather than the virus itself, leading to malformed viruses and reduced infection levels

Two AIBN researchers have received Tour de Cure funding to develop mRNA-based immunotherapies

​​​​​​​Theranostic nuclear medicine has the potential to transform cancer care, but patient access is being stalled because health systems struggle to accurately assess its cost-effectiveness, a University of Queensland study has found.

UQ Vice Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry AC announced the appointment of Professor Kristofer Thurecht as Institute Director of the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

A new leaching method pioneered at the UQ Biosustainability Hub uses fungi strains to clean mine waste and recover rare metals

Researchers at the UQ Biosustainability Hub are working with MSF Sugars to create highly valuable rare sugars in ‘microbial cell factories’

Waste gases are usually the end of the story. But at UQ’s Biosustainability Hub, they are the beginning of something valuable.

Digital twins are emerging as a powerful way to de-risk scaling up from the lab to industrial production

Geoffrey Otim is engineering microbes to produce alcohols as precursors for sustainable aviation fuel (SAFs) and founded Synbio Africa, connecting more than 400 scientists across Africa