Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Treating injuries and diseases by harnessing the body's own healing capabilities.
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Drug screening technologies and mechano-pharmacology
The field of ‘tissue-on-a-chip’ and ‘organ-on-a-dish’ is evolving rapidly and is opening opportunities in drug discovery, toxin screening and disease modelling.
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Biomaterials, bio-fabrication and regenerative medicine
The combination of materials science, materials engineering and clinical expertise is developing engineered tissues to replace or support the repair of natural tissue.
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Nano-materials and drug-delivery systems
Novel nano-materials that interact with the body’s biological processes at the cellular level are providing new, targeted drug-delivery opportunities.
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Fluid dynamic modelling for pharmaceutical manufacturing
The program is developing computational fluid dynamics models to understand and predict the behaviour of platelets in typical blood flow and during clotting.
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Polymeric drugs for combating anti-microbial resistance
Nature’s prowess in making molecules with astounding properties, such as DNA, serves as important inspiration to Professor Greg Qiao.
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Synthetic biology approaches to designer-stem-cell-based therapies
This research develops experimental and computational approaches to apply engineering design and analysis principles to study existing biological cellular systems and to create new cellular systems with user-defined properties and functions.
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3D structural support for High throughput compound and molecular screening
The development of three dimensional (3D), spheroid or organoid cellular cultures for the study of cellular function, therapeutic development and biomarker discovery, has been the cornerstone of cancer research for many years.
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Next generation therapies for hearing and balance
Human hearing and balance are two of the most poorly understood senses at a molecular level. This is largely the result of inaccessibility to the adult inner ear via biopsy, resulting in a lack of human tissue available for studying the specialised cell types that reside within it.
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Multicellular Systems Biology
This program uses Mathematical and Computational methods to better understand multicellular biological systems with a focus on the influence of biomechanics on tissue and organ development and disease.
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Microsystems engineering, micromanufacturing and cell-scale assembly
The microsystems engineering technologies research program looks to create and apply new ways of manipulating objects and cells with microscale precision, including high-throughput separation and the coordinated assembly and patterning into designed configurations, with a focus on translatable outcomes in cell cultures, tissues and therapeutics.