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Cells and Tissue
Domain Leader: Professor Peter Timms |
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(07) 3138 6199 |
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(07) 3138 6039 |
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p.timms@qut.edu.au |
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http://www.sci.qut.edu.au/about/staff/research/diseases/timmsp.jsp
Professor Peter Timms is Professor of Microbiology in the School of Life Sciences at QUT. He has held several key leadership positions in the University including Acting Director of the CRC for Diagnostic Technologies, Director of Research and Postgraduate Studies for the School of Life Sciences and Director of QUT’s internationally renowned Centre for Molecular Biotechnology. He 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.
His own research and professional interests are in medical biotechnology of infectious disease agents and he holds several patents and has published over 120 international papers in the field. He is chair of the Australian Society for Microbiology Fellowship committee and sits on several international committees and groups. He continues to teach undergraduate, postgraduate coursework and research level students. |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Timms,_Peter.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 53 peer reviewed publications, over 60 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: Associate 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 an Associate Professor with CARRS-Q. In this capacity, Barry is responsible for the development and delivery of courses in road safety and traffic psychology for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Prior to joining CARRS-Q, 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 has conducted research into a wide range of road user issues including drink driving, speeding, driver licensing, driver education, traffic law enforcement and international drivers. In 2004, Barry completed a PhD on the topic of unlicensed driving. Barry is the current Chair of the Australasian College of Road Safety (Queensland Chapter) and is a member of the College's National Executive.
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Watson,_Barry.html |
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Medical Device
Domain Leader: Professor Mark Pearcy |
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(07) 3138 6283 |
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(07) 3138 6030 |
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m.pearcy@qut.edu.au |
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http://www.bee.qut.edu.au/about/schools/engineering/staff/medical/mpearcy.jsp
Professor Pearcy leads the discipline of Medical Engineering in the School of Engineering Systems. He has conducted research over the last twenty-five years in spinal mechanics, fracture fixation and healing, total joint replacement design, lubrication of artificial joints, the relationship between the biological response to wear particles and implant loosening, and many other areas of biomedical engineering. |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Pearcy,_Mark.html |
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Tropical Crops and Biocommodities
Domain Leader: Professor James Dale |
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(07) 3138 2819 |
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(07) 3138 2819 |
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j.dale@qut.edu.au |
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Professor James Dale is interim Director of the new Renewable Biocommodities Precinct at QUT which will incorporate the Sugar Research Institute and is the Director of the Science Research Centre at the Queensland University of Technology.
He has been involved in biotechnology research for more than 25 years with specific interests in molecular farming and the development of industrial crops such as tobacco and sugarcane as well as the development of agronomically elite cultivars particularly through the development of transgenic disease resistance in bananas, papaya and sugarcane.
His research team of more than 30 researchers has developed a range of biotechnology methods and products for expressing genes in transgenic plants, including bananas, sugarcane and papaya. He has also led research and development programs in the international arena most of which have been based in south east Asia (Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam) and more recently in Africa (South Africa and Uganda). Prof Dale has published more than 70 research papers, reviews and book chapters.
He is an inventor on 9 granted patents or patent applications of which to date the most successful has been the GeneCo technology which was sold to Affymetrix.
He is the founder and managing director of Farmacule Bioindustries, Australia’s first molecular farming company.
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Dale,_James.html |
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Vision Improvement
Domain Leader: Professor Nathan Efron |
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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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