The University of Queensland

With 38,000 students and almost 6000 staff, UQ is Queensland’s largest university. Located across four main campuses – St Lucia, Ipswich, Herston and Gatton – the University boasts world-class research facilities as well as exceptional standards of teaching and learning.

UQ students hail from more than 120 countries, with almost 7000 international students currently enrolled. Graduates from UQ are in high demand and can expect starting salaries above the national average.

UQ believes it is the combination of cutting-edge infrastructure and high-profile collaborations which produce the best outcomes for industry, business and government. For this reason it has invested heavily in the design and construction of state-of-the-art research facilities and top-quality teaching spaces.

Recently, the $33 million Centre for Advanced Animal Science, a joint venture between UQ and the Queensland Government, opened at the Gatton campus. Research conducted within CAAS will be of direct benefit to Queensland’s primary producers and will ensure the state’s continued economic growth. It is the newest in a series of UQ research facilities that includes over 100 centres and six institutes – the Queensland Brain Institute, the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, the Institute for Social Science Research, the Sustainable Minerals Institute and the Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine.

Discoveries made at UQ are both marketable and life changing. For example, Professor Ian Frazer, Director of UQ’s Diamantina Institute, and his late research partner, Dr Jian Zhou, contributed to the development of a vaccine for cervical cancer. Since the vaccine's global application in 2006, more than 29 million doses have been administered to women and girls in more than 90 countries, and is now pushing boundaries into the developing world. Clinical trials are likely to commence shortly within Nepal, with further plans for clinical trials in the South Pacific region.

UQ continues to strengthen links with business, industry and government through its three commercialisation companies: UniQuest, JK Tech and IMBcom.

Contact: Professor Mick McManus
Title: Deputy Vice Chancellor
Telephone: +61 7 3365 7366

www.uq.edu.au

Please see links below to UQ’s research website and commercialisation companies:
http://www.research.uq.edu.au/
http://www.uniquest.com.au/
http://www.imbcom.com.au/
http://www.jktech.com.au/

Publications for download:
http://www.uq.edu.au/about/publications

UQ News online:
http://www.uq.edu.au/news/