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I recently received a Discovery Early Career Research award from the ARC, this award is
good in that it gives me three years of funding to carry out my research into tissue engineering.
In this particular project, I'm hoping to develop a way where we can more efficiently
get the stem cells to turn into the tissue types that we're interested in, when we combine
them with biomaterials. So, for example, I'm hoping to combine new knowledge that we have
from genomics with our current knowledge that we have of biomaterials and stem cell biology
to be able to get the stem cells to more efficiently turn into bone and cartilage, that one day
we could then use to treat osteoporosis, or osteoarthritis.
The AIBN is actually a great place for me to conduct my research, firstly because we've
got a really good mix of people here. To be effective in tissue engineering, we need to
combine the expertise of engineers, biologists, experts in genome biology. We've got all of
that expertise here, and in particular I've been working in the group of Professor Cooper-White,
who's a world leader in biomaterials. So as well as the expertise that we've got available
at the AIBN, the other thing that we're lucky to have is the facilities we've got here,
and we've got everything available to us across all these disciplines that lets us to really
good research in tissue engineering.