Student Projects

Despite the remarkable ability of nanomedicines to diagnose and treat disease, activation of the immune system and the development of innate and adaptive immunity against specific subsets of nanomedicines is a significant unresolved challenge.

Biomaterials support, repair or protect the human body. The surface of the biomaterial interacts with the body’s immune system, or for external devices with pathogens.

Targeted alpha-therapies (TATs) are emerging as powerful radiopharmaceutical tools for cancer treatment, allowing precise and localised dosing of highly potent radiotherapy.

The ability to actively change shape is essential to all kinds of living organisms. For example, the Venus flytrap closes its leaves in less than seconds to efficiently catch flies, and pine cones open their scales when the environment is dry to release their seeds.

Nanomedicine, the application of nanotechnology and biotechnology to medicine, is a rapidly expanding field of research with great promise for making meaningful changes in the way we treat many diseases including cancer.

Death due to haemorrhage (bleeding) is a preventable death. Yet 30-40% of people in a civilian setting die as a result of bleeding to death. In a military setting 90% of casualties with potentially survivable injuries die due to haemorrhage.

In radiotherapeutics, a wide range of organic ligands have been designed to coordinate inorganic radioisotopes for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. These ligands are typically conjugated to a targeting moiety through a linker; an organic bridge between the ligand and the targeting moiety.

The primary objective of this project is to address several current barriers that impede the reliability and performance of conductive hydrogels: lack of a reliable organic template for the controlled growth of metal nanorods; limited knowledge on the fabrication of metal-based nanocomposite syst

Researchers at AIBN and Griffith University are looking for enthusiastic applicants to work on an interdisciplinary project that sits at the interface of nanodiagnostics, oncology and clinical exercise.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a family of highly persistent chemicals that are linked to a number of human diseases, however existing approaches for removal of PFAS are highly inefficient.