Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0453400
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$110,040.00
Summary
The Roboocyte™: a medium-throughput, secondary functional, screening facility. Changes in ion channel function have been implicated in a wide variety of human diseases. For this reason many researchers are studying ion channels to understand how they work and how they can develop new drug treatments. The slowest step in evaluating the biological activity of compounds is testing them against the ion channels and the current technology requires much tedious manual handling and extensive operator e ....The Roboocyte™: a medium-throughput, secondary functional, screening facility. Changes in ion channel function have been implicated in a wide variety of human diseases. For this reason many researchers are studying ion channels to understand how they work and how they can develop new drug treatments. The slowest step in evaluating the biological activity of compounds is testing them against the ion channels and the current technology requires much tedious manual handling and extensive operator expertise. The Roboocyte facility will triple testing productivity by allowing for the rapid and automated screening of large libraries of compounds. Such a facility will be unique to the Southern Hemisphere.Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0775720
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$100,000.00
Summary
State-of-the-art high resolution thermal analysis suite for the life and material sciences. The facility, unique in Australia, will ensure that Australia will retains in a leading position in these research fields, will provide a basis to be competitive in international funding and support postgraduate training. The acquired equipments will strengthen the already existing infrastructures, enhancing understanding of intrinsic physico-chemical characteristic of various materials, to benefit the co ....State-of-the-art high resolution thermal analysis suite for the life and material sciences. The facility, unique in Australia, will ensure that Australia will retains in a leading position in these research fields, will provide a basis to be competitive in international funding and support postgraduate training. The acquired equipments will strengthen the already existing infrastructures, enhancing understanding of intrinsic physico-chemical characteristic of various materials, to benefit the community such as characterising functional nanomaterials for high-tech technologies and use of inhalation aerosol drug delivery to benefit patients with respiratory diseases for an improved therapeutic and health outcome.Read moreRead less