Tag: University of Queensland

ARC awards $46.6m across 75 Linkage Projects

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
The Australian Research Council has awarded $46.6 million in grant funding to dozens of new collaborative research projects through the latest round of its annual Linkage Program. ARC chief...

UQ copper processing startup lands venture funding

Posted on   |  by David McClure
A University of Queensland startup has commercialised a new energy efficient and environmentally friendly processing technology that enables copper to be extracted from previously unviable, low-quality resources. The company,...

Brisbane BioTech in the hunt for US vaccine prize

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Brisbane BioTech Vaxxas has snared fresh US government funding to accelerate its needle free vaccination platform for COVID-19 applications, as the company courts private investors. Vaxxas on Tuesday announced it...

BlockTexx scores Manufacturing Award for textile recycling tech

Posted on   |  by Stuart Mason
Queensland-based tech company BlockTexx has won the Manufacturing Innovation Award at the InnovationAus 2024 Awards for Excellence for its pioneering recycling solution bringing a “fibre to fibre” future to...

Vaxxas granted licence to develop new needle-free vaccine

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Brisbane-based vaccine patch company Vaxxas is developing the first room temperature-stable needleless vaccine for one of the world’s most common cold-like diseases, weeks after launching efforts to raise $100...

Queensland sharpens focus on quantum and net zero

Posted on   |  by Professor Kerrie Wilson
The Guinness World Record for the longest-running laboratory experiment is a title still held by the University of Queensland for its Pitch Drop experiment. It began in 1927 with...

Queensland dishes out $53m in quantum grants

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Queensland government has delivered a $53 million boost to quantum research and commercialisation in support of PsiQuantum’s endeavor to build the world’s first fault-tolerant, error-corrected quantum computer. Seven...

Govt backs cyber skills push into Pacific

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australian cyber skills will be deployed in a two month blitz across Papua New Guinea and Fiji in the federal government’s latest effort to build resilience across the Pacific...