Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0775196

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0775196

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Automated pathogen detection using time-gated luminescence microscopy. A rapid and general means of in-situ pathogen identification would benefit the community by ensuring that appropriate treatments can be applied in the early stages of a disease. Patient prognosis is thereby improved and opportunities for multi-drug resistant organisms to arise are limited. Time-gated luminescence microscopy (TgM) exploits persistent luminescence to overcome autofluorescence, a serious problem in pathogen detection. Drug-resistant 'Golden Staph' (MRSA) will be used as the model organism to evaluate TgM efficacy. Ultimately however, TgM will be applied for the detection of tuberculosis, a highly contagious disease affecting the respiratory system of more than one-third of the world's population.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2007

End Date: 31-12-2011

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $253,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Image Processing | Medical Infection Agents (Incl. Prions) | Preventive Medicine | Public Health and Health Services |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Medical instrumentation | Diagnostic methods | Modules—special and attached processors

Other Keywords

Diagnostic methods | Image Processing | Medical Infection Agents (Incl. Prions) | Medical instrumentation | Modules—special and attached processors | Preventive Medicine | Public Health and Health Services

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