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University Research Centre for Health Technologies
Our research team brings together complementary interdisciplinary research skills unique in Australia in the development of innovative medical devices and biotechnology processes for health technology applications. The focus of the group is on the study of health and disease processes, and the development of new medical devices and advanced biotechnology applications for early detection, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of lifestyle diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, neurological disorder and cancer.
The strategic direction of this research cluster mirrors the strategic direction of the Australian biomedical and biotechnology industry which is based both on a biomedical device platform and an exciting biotechnology science focus. Our innovative medical device technologies and biotechnology/biopharmaceutical research programs are currently at the cutting edge of biomedical engineering and biotechnology science and moving at a very fast pace. We have already developed several significant biomedical devices and advanced biotechnology processes, each of these has already created strong impact and presents an outstanding potential to contribute to national and international markets.
Professor Hung Nguyen -
Director (Engineering) - Faculty of Engineering
Professor Ann Simpson - Director (Science) - Faculty of Science
Professor Ashley Craig
- Faculty of Science
Associate Professor Ananda Sanagavarapu (Mohan) - Faculty of Engineering
Associate Professor Peter Watterson - Faculty of Engineering
Associate Professor Graham Nicholson - Faculty of Science
Associate Professor Donald Martin - Faculty of Science
Professor Robert Raison
- Faculty of Science
Associate Professor Aron Murphy - Faculty of Business
Associate Professor Besim Ben-Nissan - Faculty of Science
Dr Bronwyn O'Brien - Faculty of Science
Associate Professor Xianqin Qu
- Faculty of Science
Dr Stella Valenzuela - Faculty of Science
Dr Yvonne Tran - Faculty of Science
Dr Tracy Tung - Faculty of Engineering
Dr Steven Su - Faculty of Engineering
Dr Binhai Ren
Dr Chang Tao
Professor Doan Hoang -
Faculty of Information Technology
Professor Barry Thornton - Faculty of Science
Professor Gamini Dissanayake - Faculty of Engineering
Professor Lynn Chenoweth - Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health
Asociate Professor
Elaine Lawrence - Faculty of Information Technology
Associate Professor
Loraine Holley - Faculty of Science
Associate Professor
Les Kirkup - Faculty of Science
Dr Sara Lal - Faculty of Science
Dr Michael Braun - Faculty of Science
Dr David van Reyk - Faculty of Science
Dr Tony George - Faculty of Science
Dr Najah Nassif - Faculty of Science
Dr Arthur Hung - Faculty
of Information Technology
Dr Keith Willey - Faculty of Engineering
Associate Professor Simon Darcy - Faculty of Business
Dr Craig McLachlan
Dr Ahmed Al-Ani - Faculty of Engineering
Dr Adel Al-Jumaily - Faculty of Engineering
Dr Jaime Valls Miro - Faculty of Engineering
Mr Paul McIsaac - Faculty of Science
Dr Greg Hunter - Faculty of Engineering
AIMedics Pty Ltd
PacMab Ltd
Ventracor Pty Ltd
Prince of Wales Hospital
Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth
Westmead Hospital
Royal North Shore Hospital
Liverpool Hospital
Mater Hospital Brisbane
BreastScreen NSW - Central & Eastern Sydney
BreastScreen NSW - Western
Motor Accident Authority
Technical Solutions Aust Pty Ltd
Sunbuster Sportwear Pty Ltd
Foundation for Australian Resources
Australian Stuttering Foundation
University of Wales College of Medicine
University of Connecticut Health Centre
Centre Etudes d'Atomique-Saclay, Paris
The
following research projects are indicative of our current activities:
> VentrAssist Blood
Pump: a ventricular assist device implanted in parallel with the left ventricle
to help pump the blood of patients with congestive heart failure.
> Hypomon: a non-invasive
hypoglycaemia monitor which provides early detection of low blood glucose level
continuously in diabetic patients without the need for taking blood.
> PacMab: chimeric monoclonal antibody-based therapies for the treatment of multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer.
> Mind Switch:
an EEG based device which can be used to enable persons to control electrical
devices with their brain signals.
> Liver-directed
gene therapy of Type I diabetes mellitus: engineering of an artificial beta
cell capable of synthesising, storing and secreting insulin to metabolic signals.
>
Microwave ablation of atrial fibrillation: an efficient delivery of microwave
energy for ablation of arrhythmia-causing cardiac tissues.
> Assistive technology
for severely disabled people: innovative medical devices that give the disabled
people more independence, mobility and control over their lives.
> Blood flow regulation
in the retina: development of a predictive test for potential retinal damage
in diabetes, and identification of intracellular targets for therapeutic drugs.
> Intelligent wheelchair:
a power wheelchair which can be controlled hands-free using head movement or
thought patterns and can be programmed as a robotic wheelchair.
> Early detection
of breast cancer: detection of stellates & other breast masses using stealth
technology.
Professor Hung Nguyen AM
Faculty of Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123 Broadway Road, Broadway, NSW, 2007, Australia
Phone: +612 9514 2451, Fax: +612 9514 2655
Email: Hung.Nguyen@uts.edu.au
Web: http://www.eng.uts.edu.au/~htn/
Professor Ann Simpson
Faculty of Science, University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123 Broadway Road, Broadway, NSW, 2007, Australia
Phone: +612 9514 4097, Fax: +612 9514 4026
Email: Ann.Simpson@uts.edu.au
Hung Nguyen - Last modified: 31/10/07