Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160101263

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160101263

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Acoustic single cell traps: Understanding the woods by examining the trees. This project aims to define the underlying physics behind the manipulation of individual cells in a microfluidic chip using acoustic forces. The technology investigated would offer biomedical researchers a unique capability: that of tracking individual cell responses. It is known for example that drug resistance and latency emerge from small sub-populations of cells, so crucial information is lost when cells are studied at a population level. To trap single cells, the acoustic wavelength excited must be reduced to the order of a cell diameter. By enabling the analysis of different responses due to subtle cell difference, information pertinent to infection pathways and drug response could be gathered.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-05-2016

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $360,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Interdisciplinary Engineering | Biomedical Instrumentation | Acoustics and Acoustical Devices; Waves | Fluidisation and Fluid Mechanics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Scientific Instruments |

Other Keywords

Acoustics and Acoustical Devices; Waves | Biomedical Instrumentation | Fluidisation and Fluid Mechanics | Interdisciplinary Engineering | Scientific Instruments

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