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CTET Deputy Director awarded 2020 Young Tall Poppy

CTET’s Deputy Director, Dr Laura Bray, has been awarded a Young Tall Poppy award for 2020. The prestigious Young Tall Poppy Science Awards recognise achievements of Australia’s outstanding young scientific researchers and communicators. Dr Bray (QUT) co-founded the Mater-IHBI Breast Cancer Biobank to facilitate rapid access to patient breast cancer tissue for Brisbane-based researchers. Her …

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CI makes patient specific 3D printed chest implant

Chief Investigator, Distinguished Professor Dietmar W. Hutmacher has used 3D printing to create a chest implant using 90 per cent of the patient’s own tissue, in order to correct a birth defect called funnel or sunken chest. This condition causes the ribs and sternum to grow inwards. The 3D printed implant was made from porous, …

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