"...world's first interdisciplinary national wound research centre, the CRC (Cooperative Research Centre) for Wound Management Innovation, which officially opened on Friday, October 8."
"The research in the CRC will be led by QUT Professors Zee Upton from the Faculty of Science and Technology, Professor Helen Edwards from the Faculty of Health, and Professor Rob Short from the University of South Australia."
"Our research gives us a real opportunity to transform healing outcomes for patients by translating our findings into therapies and products that can be directly applied in wound clinics," Professor Upton said.
The CRC Wound Management Innovation is established and supported under the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres Program.
The CRC participants are:
Curtin University of Technology Queensland University of Technology Smith & Nephew Pty Ltd Southern Cross University Tissue Therapies Ltd University of South Australia Australian Wound Management Association (AWMA) Blue Care Department of Health Victoria Department of Health SA Ego Pharmaceuticals Flinders University Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation Queensland Health Royal District Nursing Service Royal District Nursing Service of South Australia Inc. Silver Chain Nursing Association Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics University of Western Australia Wesley Hyperbaric Women's and Children's Health Research Institute Inc. Wounds West
