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Scholarship-funded research projects
Explore our research projects with funded living stipend scholarships. You can filter by program type, research area and scholarship type, or use the keyword search field to find projects that suit your interests.
If you'd rather bring your own project, explore our scholarships (including top-up scholarships) and find a supervisor to support your project.
Macrophage Therapeutic Potential in Metabolic Disease
Explores how macrophages regulate metabolism in the liver, fat, and pancreas. Their activation maintains energy balance but also drives metabolic diseases, offering potential therapeutic targets.
- Supervisor
- Dr Sahar Keshvari
- Location
- Woolloongabba
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
MEASuRE up! Driving High-Quality Care through Adherence to Quality Indicators
This research aims to improve outcomes for people with post-stroke aphasia by: auditing adherence with quality indicators across multiple sites and determining the impact of an implementation intervention
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Sarah Wallace
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Molecular design of drugs for cancer diagnosis, imaging, and therapy
In this industry-linked project, an exceptional opportunity awaits a highly motivated PhD candidate interested in discovery and engineering of peptide drugs to combat cancer.
- Supervisor
- Dr Conan Wang
- Location
- ST Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Chemical sciences
Multiplexed nanotechnology platform to monitor glioblastoma and metastatic brain lesion risk
Develop a diagnostic and prognostic liquid biopsy nanotechnology platform for monitoring brain cancer progression and risk of brain metastases by mapping the phenotype of extracellular vesicles in the blood.
- Supervisor
- Dr Richard Lobb
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
New diagnostic strategies for antibiotic-resistant infections
Implement rapid metagenomics-based diagnostics and phenotype prediction to guide the treatment of life-threatening infections.
- Supervisor
- Dr Patrick Harris
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Health sciences
Novel genomic assessments for finding true DNA variants contributing to the difference in beef cattle fertility
Use long-read Oxford Nanopore sequencing to uncover structural variants affecting cattle fertility, improving genomic prediction and accelerating genetic gains in northern beef production.
- Supervisor
- Dr Loan Nguyen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences
Periodontal cell derived extracellular vesicles as treatment for periodontitis
Our project is to investigate the potential of periodontal cell-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) as a 'cell-free' therapy for a chronic oral disease - periodontitis.
- Supervisor
- Dr Pingping Han
- Location
- UQ Herston Campus
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
Physiological understanding of the methane-metabolising microorganisms
Explore reversible methane metabolism in archaea to improve understanding of microbial-induced methane emissions, advancing techniques to characterize their physiology and predict climate impacts.
- Supervisor
- Dr Xueqin Zhang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Chemical sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences
Quantifying Climate Change's Impact on Infectious Disease Burden in Queensland
Fill critical knowledge gaps by quantifying the present and future impact of climate change on infectious disease burden in Australia and Queensland.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Benn Sartorius
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Rechargeable Aluminium-Organic Batteries with High-capacities
Advance rechargeable aluminium battery technology by exploring high-capacity organic cathode materials and controlling their optimum chemistry and electrochemical behaviours.
- Supervisor
- Dr Xiaodan Huang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering