During 2011 Bond University had a range of key research achievements:

• Bond University was awarded $1.2 million of Queensland Government research funding for two projects;
  • Tendon Response to Physical Activity in the Obese: Guidelines for Health and Injury Prevention
  • Biological signature for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)
• Bond University PhD student, Ekua Brenu, was awarded the Junior Investigator Research Award for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome from the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (IACFS/ME) in Ottawa, Canada.
• Researchers at Bond University received a landmark grant of over $800,000 from the Judith Jane Mason & Harold Stannett Williams Memorial Foundation to continue their ground-breaking research into identifying the cause and possible treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).
• Bond University Law academics secured a $212,459 Linkage grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC).
• Bond University received its first research grant from Cancer Council Queensland for a project grant valued at $180,000.
• Bond received its first ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) worth $375,000. The research will focus on stock market crashes with an innovative experimental design to investigate factors that are intended to prevent asset price bubbles and crashes.
• Bond University hosted the "Inaugural Annual Collaborative Human Research Ethics Committee Members Training Day" on 17 February 2011.
• Bond University’s Institute of Sustainable Development & Architecture hosted the 36th Australasian University Building Educators Association [AUBEA] Conference.
• Professor Paul Glasziou won the highly competitive National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding for the Centre for Research Excellence, in partnership with the University of New South Wales. The research project is entitled as ‘Centre for research excellence in E-health’ and worth $2,499,870.
•  Professor Catherine Bell, an early career researcher won a Training Fellowship worth $160,000 from NHMRC. Her project’s title is ‘Initial Response Monitoring in Chronic Disease’.
• Associate Professor Bon Gray obtained an international competitive grant from the “World Anti-Doping Agency” to work on the research project entitled ‘Application of transcriptional and proteomic profiling to the detection of recombinant human Growth Hormone (rhGH)’. The total value of the award is US$300,000.
• Professor Ken Parry received $150,000 from the Sunland Foundation to support research and scholarship into the leadership, spirituality and integrity of business.
• Bond University submitted two provisional patents by the Clem Jones Research Centre for Stem Cells and Tissue Regenerative Therapies.
• Bond’s seven University Research Centres received central funding to encourage the growth and development of the Centres.
• The Vice Chancellor’s Research Grants released over $275,000 in seed grant funding.  Under this research grant program, Bond academic staff may apply for grants to develop innovative research projects, collaborations and pilot methodologies which lead to an external research grant application. The internal seed grant scheme supported 22 projects over a 12 month period.