UQ is one of the top three research universities in the country and leads industry collaboration and research funding.

This research informs teaching and UQ students have the opportunity to study with researchers of international renown.

UQ’s Professor Ian Frazer and 2006 Australian of the Year recently developed a world-first vaccine for cervical cancer that will save the lives of millions of women around the world, while UQ nanotechnologist Professor Max Lu is the only Australian to make Phoenix Weekly’s list of the top 50 most influential Chinese in the world.

UQ researchers have access to world-class infrastructure and facilities. The University’s impressive research portfolio includes over 130 research centres, including the:

• Queensland Brain Institute (QBI)
• Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI)
• Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB)
• Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology (AIBN)
• UQ Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine
• Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR).

In addition, UQ offers numerous teaching and research facilities throughout Queensland, including Australia’s largest university-run marine research station at Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef, and other marine facilities on Lowe Isles and North Stradbroke Island.

The University is a leader in the provision of Research Higher Degree, has the second largest PhD population in Australia, and enrols the greatest number of international PhD researchers. In 2006, UQ had over 3,500 individual enrolled in a research higher degree program.

Professor Max Lu

Director of the Australian Research Council Centre for Functional Nanomaterials at UQ and a Federation Fellow.

“I’m proud to be both a UQ graduate and a UQ research leader. This university has the world-class infrastructure and vibrant research environment that leads to major international research breakthroughs. The researchers and senior staff at UQ have created one of the best research training environments in Australia, indeed the world.”