Professor Matt Trau
Professor Matt Trau
The University of Queensland
Project: Beyond Microarrays: Nano-Scaled Devices for High Throughput Biomolecular Sensing
Current developments in nanoscience and nanotechnology hold the promise of revolutionising our industrial base, transforming biology, medical science and practice.
This project strives to achieve some of these aims by, for the first time, building and testing nano-scaled devices with the capacity to "read" massive amounts of biological information.
With the recent completion of the human genome project, major opportunities exist to provide spectacular advances in human health care (such as personalised medicine) if high-throughput biological reading devices can be developed.
In developing such devices, this project also aims to substantially catalyse the Australian nanotechnology/ biotechnology industry.
