It’s grants season. New NHMRC and ARC grants announced in recent weeks. Prof Kirill Alexandrov at IMB has received funding from both. No idea if the organ transplant monitoring system is related. Biosensor application perhaps?
30 October 2015
Australian Research Council (ARC) grants for 2016 announced.
Sensor to smartphone ($650,300 grant)
Professor Kirill Alexandrov and his team will use their grant to develop biosensors that collect biological information within the body and send the information to an electronic device such as a smartphone. The biosensors would be inexpensive and have the potential to detect almost any molecule. They could be used for medical diagnostics, biotechnological manufacturing, agriculture, biosecurity and robotic sensing.
This project plans to develop novel, sensitive, inexpensive and flexible electric biosensors to monitor potentially any molecule. It plans to use synthetic biology principles to develop a new class of artificial protein receptors that generate electric current upon encountering a molecular target. Using expertise in in vitro protein synthesis, the project plans to integrate biosensor design and electrode prototyping to achieve rapid development of low-cost broadly applicable sensory electrodes. To increase the sensitivity of the resulting sensing systems, the electrochemical receptors will be integrated with signal amplification cascades based on artificial autoinhibited proteases. The project aims to address the need for new technologies that enable collection of biological information outside of the laboratory environment.
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants announced.
IMB scientists were awarded $9.7 million across 14 research projects.
Professor Kirill Alexandrov and his team will use their NHMRC Development Grant to create a new test system to allow patients and clinicians to better manage organ transplant medication and reduce rejection.
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