Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP150100998
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Microfluidic technology to help understand physical damage to brain cells. Understanding the organisation, structure and mechanisms of the human brain and nervous system remains one of the biggest challenges of science. This project aims to develop a new cell culture platform to form defined molecular networks of brain cells and to monitor changes throughout the network in response to a small localised injury within the network. This innovative platform will be used to help understand changes within cells in response to physical damage to networks of brain cells. This is one of the major causes of death and disability in developed nations, and is identified as a risk factor for a range of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and motor neuron disease.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2015
End Date: 12-2020
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $415,500.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Cellular Nervous System | Other Chemical Sciences | Biomechanical Engineering | Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Nervous System and Disorders |
