2022

Queensland will become a global mRNA vaccine hub with leading healthcare company Sanofi partnering with Griffith University and other leading research institutions to establish a world-first research centre in south east Queensland.The…

How fast do electrons inside a molecule move? Well, it is so fast that it takes them just few attoseconds (1 as = 10-18 s or one billionth of billionth of a second) to jump from one atom to another. Blink and you missed it – millions of…

Eleven Griffith students are headed on overseas adventures after being awarded scholarships to work and study internationally under Australia’s New Colombo Plan.The program aims to lift knowledge of the Indo Pacific in Australia, with…

For biodiversity to thrive, conservation efforts must be ‘nature- and people-positive’, a recent study has found.Despite decades of increasing investment in conservation, ‘bending the curve’ of biodiversity decline has not succeeded.…

Restoring tidal flow to enclosed freshwater wetlands is key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping reach Australia’s carbon reduction targets a Griffith-led study found.Published in Restoration Ecology, the study compared the…

If you thought Australia was home to only one ancient ‘giant wombat’, think again. While the Diprotodon – the extinct megafauna species that is distantly related to wombats but was the size of a small car – is commonly (but incorrectly)…

Researchers are investigating whether the COVID virus can affect vision and depth-perception of those infected.The study, co-led by Griffith University’s Menzies Health Institute and South Korea’s Center for Convergent Research for…

Griffith University research reveals that when combinations of human-caused stressors fluctuate, replicating more realistic environmental conditions, it vastly changes their impact on wetland habitats.Published in Ecology Letters, the…

Five new Honorary Doctorates, 4,904 graduating students and Griffith’s first alumnus Chancellor, Andrew Fraser, have all been acknowledged in ceremonies across Brisbane and the Gold Coast this week.In ceremonies taking place between…

A ‘Trojan Horse’ anti-cancer agent and disrupting HIV cell-cell junctions are among the Griffith University research projects to be awarded in a national funding scheme.Griffith researchers were awarded four grants worth more than $3.6…