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World first breast implant trial for Australia

After 10 years of fundamental and preclinical research lead by Distinguished Professor Dietmar W  Hutmacher and his interdisciplinary team, a world first breast implant trial in Australia aims to provide a safer alternative to permanent silicone implants.  The interdisciplinary research team from HBI, BellaSeno, QUT, CBCI (and many other partners), developed a ‘scaffold guided tissue engineering …

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Dietmar W. Hutmacher speaks about his journey of co-founding Osteopore

In this video, watch as Dr. Dietmar W. Hutmacher, Professor and Chair in Regenerative Medicine of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), speaks about his journey of co-founding Osteopore and how its technology will creative impact in the Orthopaedic market. 0:06 – Tell Us About Your Background And Your Role In Osteopore (OSX.AX) 0:27 – What Inspired You …

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CTET researchers awarded grant through the Kids’ Cancer Project

CTET CI Dr Jacqui McGovern has been awarded a grant worth $299,171 over three years from the Kids’ Cancer Project. Her work will involve developing an osteosarcoma precision oncology workflow. Osteosarcoma is the most common malignant bone tumour affecting children and adolescents. Importantly, clinical outcomes have not improved for decades, and bone tumours remain a …

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QUT research partnership in first Max Planck Center in Australia

CTET CI Distinguished Professor Dietmar W. Hutmacher has been named as co-director of the newly formed Max Planck Queensland Center for the Materials Science of Extracellular Matrices (MPQC). Hosted by Germany’s Max Planck Society and QUT, the Max Planck Queensland Center for the Materials Science of Extracellular Matrices will explore extracellular matrices and their importance …

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Dietmar W Hutmacher named in Australia’s top 40 lifetime research achievers

CTET CI Distinguished Professor Dietmar W Hutmacher has been named one of Australia’s top 40 lifetime achievers in research, chosen for the consistent excellence of their work and the impact they had in their fields. Professor Dietmar W. Hutmacher is an internationally acknowledged biomedical engineer, scholar, educator, inventor, and entrepreneur. He directs an interdisciplinary team …

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CTET Officially Launched

The ARC Centre for Cell and Tissue Engineering was officially launched yesterday, November 4. Centre members, university employees, industry partners and advisory committee members met virtually to hear from Senator David Van, ARC CEO Prof. Sue Thomas, Monash Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Senior Vice-President Prof. Rebekah Brown, and Centre Director and Education Leader Profs. Laurence …

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CTET CIs publish on role the microenvironment plays in shaping tumor growth and subsequent bone metastasis

CTET CIs Dr Jacqui McGovern, Prof. Gail Risbridger and Distinguished Prof. Dietmar W. Hutmacher have published a paper this week in Nature Communications Biology. In the work investigating the role the microenvironment plays in shaping tumor growth and subsequent bone metastasis, researchers used bioluminescent imaging, histology, and immunohistochemistry to study metastasis of human PC-3 and …

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CTET Deputy Director, Dr Laura Bray ARC 2021 Future Fellow

Minister for Education and Youth, Hon Alan Tudge announced funding for the ARC Future Fellowship projects, which focus on areas of national priority. A biologist and bioengineer Dr Laura Bray, from the QUT School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering, received $934,478 to help improve our understanding of blood vessels. Dr Bray’s research will examine …

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