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IHBI Research Domain |
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Cells and Tissue
Domain Leader: Professor Zee Upton |
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(07) 3138 6185 |
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(07) 3138 6030 |
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z.upton@qut.edu.au |
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Zee Upton is Professor of Life Sciences in the QUT School of Life Sciences and an inaugural Smart State Senior Fellow. She is a biochemist, inventor and tissue engineer with her research outcomes resulting in traditional scientific/academic outputs as well as significant commercialisation outcomes. She is experienced in all aspects of medical science and biotechnology spanning the range from pure basic to highly applied and industrial aspects of medical biotechnology. Her own research and professional interests are in tissue repair and regeneration and encompass interdisciplinary projects crossing life, chemistry and mathematical sciences.
Since the award of her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Adelaide in 1994 Professor Upton has developed a significant record of innovative high quality scientific research that has yielded: more than $13 million in research funding from competitive grant schemes and industry; 63 publications; 8 patents/pending applications; and significantly, discovery and translation of a new wound healing technology, VitroGro®, via the establishment and listing of a biotechnology company, Tissue Therapies, on the ASX. Her knowledge, skills and creativity have been recognized by several awards, including the Qld Government 2004 “Smart Women – Smart State Award” and sponsored invitations to describe her research to 17 international and 27 national forums over the last 5 years. |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Upton,_Zee.html |
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Human Health and Wellbeing
Domain Leader: Professor Lynne Daniels |
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(07) 3138 6139 |
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(07) 3138 6030 |
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l2.daniels@qut.edu.au |
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Professor Lynne Daniels was appointed to a newly established capacity building research chair within the Institute Health and Biomedical Innovation in August 2006. Professor Daniels is a dietitian with 30 years of research, teaching and clinical experience. Prior to her QUT appointment she was Assistant Dean, Health Professional Programs; Head of Department, Nutrition and Dietetics and Co-ordinator of the nutrition and dietetic education programs in the School of Medicine Flinders University Adelaide, South Australia.
Her research interests include nutrition and feeding in infancy and early childhood, childhood obesity, selenium status of infants and nutrition assessment and support of older adults. She has 54 peer reviewed publications, over 78 published abstracts from presentations in Australia and overseas and has achieved $2.13 M grant funding. Professor Daniels is an active member of the Dietitians Association Australia (DAA) and is currently on the Dietetic Standards and Accreditation Advisory Committee and Associate Editor for Nutrition and Dietetics. In 2004 she received the then highest DAA award for outstanding contribution to dietetics based on criteria including professional competence and leadership. |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Daniels,_Lynne_A..html |
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Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation
Domain Leader: Professor Barry Watson |
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(07) 3138 4955 |
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(07) 3138 3980 |
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b.watson@qut.edu.au |
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Barry Watson is currentlly the Acting Director of QUT's Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety (CARRS-Q) and the Leader of the Injury Prevention and Rehabiliation Domain within IHBI.
He has worked in the road safety field for over 20 years and has conducted research into a wide range of road user safety issues including drink driving, speeding, driver licensing, driver education, traffic law enforcement, unlicensed driving and international drivers.
Prior to joining QUT, Barry accumulated a wide range of experience in road safety research and policy development arising from positions with the NSW Traffic Authority (1984-86), the NRMA (1986-87; 1988-1993) and Queensland Transport (1993-97).
Barry is currently the National Vice-President of the Australasian College of Road Safety (ACRS) and the Chair of the Queensland Chapter of the College. |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Watson,_Barry.html |
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Medical Device
Domain Leader: Professor Dietmar Hutmacher |
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(07) 3138 6077 |
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(07) 3138 6030 |
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dietmar.hutmacher@qut.edu.au |
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Professor Hutmacher leads the Medical Device Domain with an accomplished international profile and strong research focus. He views himself as a biomedical engineer trained at multidisciplinary interfaces; an educator, an inventor, a tissue engineer and a committed developer of new intellectual property opportunities.
Outcomes from Professor Hutmacher’s research have resulted in high profile scientific and academic contributions as well as patents and commercialization.
His track record shows that he has successfully mastered the main challenge in this interdisciplinary field, namely to cross traditional boundaries to nurture and initiate research and educational programs across different disciplines, particularly within engineering, biology and medicine. |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Hutmacher,_Dietmar.html |
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Vision Improvement
Domain Leader: Professor Joanne Wood |
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(07) 3138 6401 |
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(07) 3138 6030 |
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n.efron@qut.edu.au |
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Professor Nathan Efron completed his BScOptom and PhD at the University of Melbourne in 1981, and after two years of post-doctoral studies in Berkeley, USA and UNSW, he returned to Melbourne as lecturer then senior lecturer responsible for contact lens education. In 1990 he took up the foundation Chair of Clinical Optometry at the University of Manchester, England, and established a contact lens research and consultancy unit known as Eurolens Research. In Manchester, he served as Head of Department from 1992-97 and Dean of Research for the university from 2001-2004, and was admitted to the degree of Doctor of Science in 1995. Professor Efron returned to Australia in 2006 and joined the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation in the School of Optometry at the Queensland University of Technology, as Research Professor. He has served as President of both the Contact Lens Society of Australia (1981) and the British Contact Lens Association (1997). He lectures extensively world-wide, particularly in the field of the ocular response to contact lens wear, and has published over 650 scientific papers, abstracts and textbook chapters, and has written/edited 9 books — his most recent being ‘Optometry A-Z’ (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007). Professor Efron has won a number of prestigious awards, including the Optician journal’s ‘Contribution to Optics’ award (UK, 1997), the Gold Medal of the British Contact Lens Association (UK, 2001) and the Max Schapero Award (USA, 2003).
Professor Efron's current research involves an investigation of novel non-invasive ophthalmic markers of diabetic neuropathy. Specifically, he uses state-of-the-art ophthalmic technology such as corneal confocal microscopy, non-contact corneal aesthesiometry, optical coherence tomography and flicker-field perimetry to monitor deterioration and regeneration of the structure and function of nerve fibres in the cornea and retina of diabetic patients suffering from neuropathy. At QUT, Professor Efron has received funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International and the George Weaber Foundation Trust.
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Efron,_Nathan.html |
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