Affinity Collaboration Event September 30th 2013 (Attendees by Faculty) First Name Surname Affiliation Justin Adams Tuncay Alan MHNS, Anatomy and Developmental Biology Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering David Albrecht Clayton School IT Robert David Andrews Barnes John Bertram Richard Boyd Josie Carberry John Carroll Sunita Chauhan Chao Chen MHNS, Australian Centre for Blood Diseases MBI & e-Research MHNS, Anatomy and Developmental Biology MHNS, Anatomy and Developmental Biology Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering MHNS, Head School of Biomedical Sciences Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Table Research Interests/needs 4 8 8 2 9 6 7 2 3D morphological analysis, biomedical Imaging, 3D printing Micro-mechanical and micro-fluidic devices, sensors, diagnostics Data analysis; Spatial statistical modelling; Experimental design Modelling & measuring thrombus formation, relationshiop to blood flow and bio-chemical processes in the vascalature Visualisation MRI, image processing, paramagnetic nano-particles Osteoarthritis, nano-fabrication, material self assembly, immune system repair Fluid dynamics, Bio-fluid dynamics, flow control and imaging 1 4 Diagnostic and surgical automation and robotics 4 Robotics, mechanisms, and haptics Wenlong Cheng Flavia Cicuttini Anthony Dart Mark Del Borgo Chemical Engineering MHNS, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Alfred MHNS, Dept. of Medicine, Alfred Hospital MHNS, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Christian Doerig MHNS, Head Dept. of Microbiology Tim Matt Jayne Peter Dwyer Eades Facey Farrell Paul John Fitzgerald Forsythe Andreas Fouras Jing Fu Garcia de la Banda Maria Elizabeth Gardiner Andis Graudins 8 Nano-materials, nano-medicine 3 Joint cartilage, imaging, arthritis Coronary artery disease, vascular propertioes, blood flow measurement and mocelling 5 8 Caulfield School IT DBI AusIndustry ResMed MHNS, Deputy Director Central and Eastern Clinical School Materials Engineering Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 9 4 1 1 IT, Deputy Dean 1 MHNS, Australian Centre for Blood Diseases MHNS, Dept. of Medicine, Southern Clinical School Imaging, nanotechnology Signalling / kinomics in infectious disease (esp. malaria), Anti-infective drug discovery , Interest in developing highthroughput biochemistry using microfluidics Data visualisation, including biological networks & document flow. 8 4 Transcranial stimulation, robotic localisation, miniaturised implantable devices, analysis of neuro-imaging data Bio-compatible materials 9 Biomedical imaging 9 Nano-engineering for cell imaging and manipulation Combinatorial optimisation (e.g. rostering, radiation minimisation) Modelling & measuring thrombus formation, relationshiop to blood flow and bio-chemical processes in the vascalature Clinical toxicology, drug delivery, drug removal, data mining for predicting disease trends 7 8 David Green IT, ADR 5 Gholamreza Haffari Clayton School IT 5 Lizhong He 7 Wilson Dwayne John Kirk Chemical Engineering MHNS, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Alfred MCN, Director Arun Konagurthu Clayton School IT Kevin Korb Mitchell Lawrence Wai Ho Dan Li Li Jian Li Zhe Madeleine Clare Liu McManus Meeker Telemedicne, e-Health, decision support 5 Bioinformatics (Genomics and Proteomics); Mathematical and Computational Biology; Information theory and data mining Bayesian networks, agent-based modeling, causal modeling, data mining, Clayton School IT MHNS, Anatomy and Developmental Biology Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering Materials Engineering Pharmacy, Dept. of Pharmaceutics Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Engineering IE&C Modelling complex biological systems; understanding networks; Bioinformatics (eg cancer genomics), Big Data Analysis, Machine Learning Engineering therapeutic proteins and nano-particles for drug delivery 10 7 9 8 1 3 network complexity Computer vision, augmented reality, robotics, image processing, 3D sensing & moelling, werable/mobile computer systems Graphene-based soft materials for biomedical applications Antimicrobial pharmacology, molecular imaging, single-cell microbiology and drug discovery Nano-materials, nano and micro electro-mechanical systems Ian Meredith Bernd John Meyer Morrison Adrian Pauline Neild Nestor Hans Sarah Netter Newton Ann Nicholson Moria Patrick Chris Colin MHNS, Head Cardiovascular Research Centre, Monash Medical Centre Clayton School IT MHNS Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering ODVC MHNS, Dept. of Microbiology MNHS, Deputy Dean 6 8 7 1 7 3 4 O'Bryan Clayton School IT MHNS, Deputy Head of Research, Anatomy and Developmental Biology Perlmutter Porter Pouton Science, Dept. Chemistry Pharmacy, ADR Pharmacy 2 10 6 5 Innovations in Management of Structural Heart Disease & Transluminal Valve Therapies, Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging, in particular dynamic cardiac CT imaging and development of non-invasive coronary perfusion assessment, First-In-Human through to pre-marketing studies of new cardiac devices (Transcatheter cardiac valve replacement/repair, percutaneous repair of structural heart disease, modern drug-eluting coronary artery stent technologies, Psychosocial influences in Heart Disease Collective behaviour simulation and modelling; constraint optimisation Microfluidics for bio-diagnostics Structurally modified bio-nanoparticles as delivery platform with targeting ability, drug delivery Medical decision making; lung cancer treatment; biomedical monitoring Male infertility Bio-compatible materials, sensors for drug design, devices for proteomics, contrast agents for neuro-degenrative disease imaging, Self assembling peptides for biomedical applications Drug delivery Drug delivery Malin Dwayne Electrical and Computer Premaratne SystemsEngineering Rabel DBI 6 Ramesh Rajan Marcello Rosa Jeffrey Murray Rosenfeld Rudman Kris Frieder Ryan Seible Greg Sheard MHNS, Dept. of Physiology MHNS, Deputy Head Dept. of Physiology MHNS, Head Dept. Surgery, Alfred Hospital Engineering Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Engineering & IT, Dean Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 6 Wei Shen Chemical Engineering 3 George Simon 2 Raman Singh Julian Ian Smith Smith Ian Smyth Materials Engineering Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering MHNS, Dept. Surgery, Monash Medical Centre ODVC MHNS, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology David Spanswick MHNS, Dept. of Physiology 10 10 10 2 5 1 5 6 7 1 3 Bio-optics, nano-optics, Computational Quantum Electrodynamics Modelling brain injury, drug and stem cell delivery, neural signal processing Brain-machine interfaces, recording neural activity, neuroinformatics Neuro-trauma, vision, robotics Computational fluid dynamics Computational Fluid Dynamics applied to blood vessels, stenoses, etc. Fluid-structure simulation of deforming cells in vascular and micro-flows Low cost diagnostics and liquid marble microreactors for stem cell research Bio-mimetic coatings and materials usinf polymers and nano-particles Body Fluid-assisted Corrosion and Fracture of Magnesiumalloy Implants Minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery. micromanipulation Imaging for organ develoipment in mouse embryos Development of implants to control and monitor neural activity in the peripheral and central nervous system David Bruce Taniar Thompson Paul Mark Verma Wallace Bing Geoff Wang Webb Andrew James Wei Whisstock John Bjorn Wilson WintherJensen Chris Wright Wenyi Yan Mehmet Ingrid Clayton School IT MHNS, Dept. Immunology MHNS, MIMR Centre for Reproduction and Development Caulfield School IT MHNS, Dept. of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Alfred Clayton School IT MHNS, Australian Centre for Blood Diseases MHNS MHNS, Dept of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Alfred 7 9 9 2 Data management for clinical research; Big data in medicine and health; Medical software Modelling, measurement & imaging of lung function,. 4 10 Constrained optimisation, resource planning, scheduling. Heart and Kidney failure, devices for monitoring this, small molecule therapeutics. Tissue/organs on chips, novel biomarker testing methods, imaging of small molecule within cells etc Data mining 9 Automated, robotic sample taking Protein machines, drug delivery and nanotechnology Materials Engineering 10 5 10 Yuce MHNS Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering Zukerman Clayton School IT 3 6 Telemedicne, e-Health, decision support Bio-compatible materials for electrodes, sensors, diagnostics Control-based therapy, Reasoning systems, Knowledge representation, circulatory & respiratory modelling Solid mechanics, deformation and failure of materials and structures Biomedical electronics, wireless-E health, wireless implantable and wearable biomedical sensor devices Sensor-based monitoring of people in their environments and spoken language interactions