We collaborate with a robust and diverse network of research, commercialisation and teaching partners around the world.
Our alliances span research institutions, industry groups, government bodies and policy-makers, as well as community organisations and businesses.
We work together on:
- contract research and research collaborations
- licensing agreements and patents
- start-up and spin-out companies
- student engagement.
By fostering our connections, we link our fundamental research to applied outcomes that impact on and improve everyday life across a range of agricultural and industrial settings.
Our engagement partners also help us to enrich our students' experiences through the creation of scholarships and industry placement programs.
Our partners
We have long-standing alliances with:
- Advanta
- Australian Food & Grocery Council
- Australian Agricultural Company
- Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
- BASF
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- CSIRO
- Dairy Australia
- Food Innovation Australia Limited (FIAL)
- Grain Research & Development Corporation (GRDC)
- Horticulture Innovation Australia (HIA)
- Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA)
- Monsanto
- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI)
- Sugar Research Australia (SRA)
- Syngenta Australia
- US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Research translation and commercialisation
We work closely with UniQuest, the University’s main commercialisation company, to ensure that our discoveries and technological advances are translated into sustainable business outcomes.
With UniQuest’s support, we ensure that our innovation and expertise improves the lives of people around the world.
Recent commercialisation success stories to make headlines include:
- ‘Probiotics’ on salad greens could make them safer, healthier
- UQ plant breeding expertise recognised globally
- New technology to revolutionise fresh fruit industry
- Aussie Colours rescue Queensland native Aussie giant orchids
- Nexgen plant innovation funded for game shift in virus resistance
- Australia’s first bioherbicide approaching release
- UQ probiotics innovation boosts health benefits of milk and juice.
Be a discovery partner
Contact us if you're interested in working with us as a discovery partner.
Engage with our students
You can engage with our students in a number of ways.