Advanced Biomanufacturing

UQ’s Biosustainability Hub (the Hub) has won the 2025 AFR Higher Education Award for Industry Engagement, with Hub Director and AIBN Group Leader Professor Esteban Marcellin accepting the honour.

Brewing dairy proteins might sound unusual, but that’s exactly what researchers at The University of Queensland’s Food and Beverage Accelerator (FaBA) have achieved, using precision fermentation to create dairy ingredients for the food and beverage sector.

University of Queensland PhD student Hemanshi Galaiya has been named a 2025 Universitas 21 Leader of the Future, recognised for her work expanding access to STEM education for under-resourced students in Kenya.

Researchers at the University of Queensland’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology are working to develop a vaccine in just 100 days to support future pandemic preparedness.

AIBN researchers have secured a major grant to position lignin as a key plank in the $15 billion market for sustainable rubbers, adhesives, and coatings.

Researchers at the AIBN are harnessing bacteria to recover valuable materials and help clean up mining waste.

Organoid researchers at the AIBN have won $4.1 million MRFF grant to prove the effectiveness of epilepsy drugs made from spider venom.

With the support of the Lily Foundation, University of Cambridge Neurologist Dr Jelle van den Ameele and AIBN group leader Dr Seth Cheetham are hoping to change the fortunes of those born with a fatal condition.

Nissa Carrodus has trained countless students in the ways of the lab over her 15 years as a research assistant. Now she’s starting a PhD of her own.

The threat of climate change – the saying goes – is like a frog stuck in a rapidly heating pot of water...