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Venom from the giant red bull ant is helping University of Queensland scientists understand the evolution of animal toxins in work that could lead to better treatments for pain. Researchers from UQ’s Centre for Advanced Imaging and Institute for Molecular Bioscience have completed the first comprehensive study of ant venom, revealing toxins that stimulate the human nervous system to cause pain.

An $8.5 million Australian Research Council training centre at The University of Queensland will bring together innovation and technology in biomedicine. The ARC Training Centre for Innovation in Biomedical Imaging Technology (CIBIT) was launched by Member for Ryan Jane Prentice at UQ’s Centre for Advanced Imaging.

The Centre for Advanced Imaging and Kingaroy State High School (KSHS) have been successful in securing a $10,000 Engaging Science Grant for 2018.

Informatics fellows from around Australia have combined their expertise to build a series of Trusted Data Repositories (TDR's) to provide researchers with a secure location to store, share and curate their data.

CAI researcher Eivind Undheim publishes his venom based research in collaboration with Ronald Jenner at London's Natural History Museum.

The magnetic resonance diffusion professional short course was run over the 7th and 8th of October. We had a small but diverse cohort of PhD students, radiographers, postdoctoral researchers and undergrads.

The 4th annual CAI symposium brought together researchers across the broad disciplines that utilise imaging and spectroscopy at UQ. This was exemplified by the two keynote addresses from eminent scientists in the field that highlighted the multidisciplinary nature of research and collaborations within the centre.