Across our campuses, the next generation of researchers are answering some of today’s most pressing issues, focused on ensuring healthier people and a healthier planet.
Research themes
Improving the quality of human life around the world.
Improving the quality of ecology and our environment.
Research overview
Implementing changes that make a big difference to lives and communities here at home, across the Pacific and around the globe. And ultimately, bringing about real impact and positive change that helps move everyone forward.
Researcher spotlight
Leading Microbiologist, Professor Peter Timms, has spent decades searching for a way to address disease in koalas >
The team has had a breakthrough — developing, trialling and administering a successful koala chlamydia vaccine.
UniSC Associate Professor of Molecular Engineering Dr Joanne Macdonald >
UniSC Associate Professor of Molecular Engineering Dr Joanne Macdonald and postdoctoral researcher Dr Nina Pollak from UniSC’s Centre for Bioinnovation worked with CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness on the research into the Nipah virus.
Research news
Blood pressure: New study predicts how climate change will jeopardise blood supply
17 AprClimate change will impact the health of blood donors worldwide and increases in disease and natural disasters may trigger a rise in the need for blood, according to a new analysis published in The Lancet Planetary Health
New study to improve diagnosis and treatment of chronic lung disease
23 Dec 2024A UniSC research team has received a prestigious $921,000 national grant for a $1.5 million project that aims to more effectively diagnose and treat infections associated with an incurable lung disease
Your lifestyle choices are already showing up on your brain and could be prematurely ageing it, study finds
17 Dec 2024New research from UnSC’s Thompson Institute has found a relationship between lifestyle choices that affect dementia risk, and early signs of ageing on the brain