Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP140100416

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP140100416

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Putting an end to hospital-borne infection with micronebulisation of lung-safe disinfectants. Dangerous infections are unfortunately common in hospitals, established and retransmitted via surfaces and handheld items, representing a leading contributor to death worldwide, and potentially a far more serious problem to come as antimicrobial resistance worsens. The project aims to exploit a newly discovered and unique low power nebulisation technology to nebulise a strongly antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal agent, triethylene glycol that is too viscous to do so by any other known method. Through refinement and engineering of the technology via this project, handheld and room-based continuously operating nebulisers will produce continuous microdroplet mists of these pathogen-killing agents that deposit on surfaces throughout a hospital.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 12-11-2015

End Date: 11-11-2018

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $326,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biomedical Instrumentation | Fluid Physics | Biomedical Engineering | Acoustics and Acoustical Devices; Waves

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Medical Instruments | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Human Biological Preventatives (e.g. Vaccines) |

Other Keywords

Acoustics and Acoustical Devices; Waves | Biomedical Engineering | Biomedical Instrumentation | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Fluid Physics | Human Biological Preventatives (e.g. Vaccines) | Medical Instruments

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