Welcome Mei
Meihua Luo, who used to be RA in MIPS, starts her first year of PhD program in November and will be working under the supervision of Tong. Her work will focus on establishing blood-brain-barrier...
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Welcome Lauren
Lauren has just completed the 2nd year of her bachelor of biomedical science degree at Monash university. For the next 6 weeks she will be working with the team to develop silicon nanowire architectures as...
New paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Anna and colleagues have recently published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces their work on novel Gd-Loaded silicon nanohybrid: A potential EGFR expressing cancer cell targeting MRI contrast agent. Continuing our research efforts in...
Welcome Santiago
Santiago has just finished his 3rd year of his bachelor of biomedical science and engineering double degree at Monash university. He will be working with the team for the next 6 weeks as part...
New paper in Biomaterials
Prof. Nico and colleagues have recently published in Biomaterials their work on manipulating human dendritic cell phenotype and function with targeted porous silicon nanoparticles. Dendritic cells (DC) are the most potent antigen-presenting cells and...
Welcome Thibaut
Dr. Thibaut Thai is visiting the group for 6 months as a postdoctoral fellow from the Leibniz Institute for New Materials (INM) in Saarbrücken, Germany. Thibaut synthesised small gold nanorods and will functionalize them...
New paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Anna and colleagues have recently published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces their work on gold nanocluster-mediated cellular death under electromagnetic radiation. Gold nanoclusters (Au NCs) have become a promising nanomaterial for cancer therapy...
New chapter in Diatom Nanotechnology: Progress and Emerging Applications
Soundarrajan Chandrasekaran and prof. Nico Voelcker have published book chapter: “The Potential of Modified Diatom Frustules for Solar Energy Conversionin”, in Diatom Nanotechnology: Progress and Emerging Applications, edited by Dusan Losic, RSC 2017. Research on...
PhD Scholarship – ARC Training Centre for Personalised Therapeutics Technologies
We are looking for highly motivated, passionate and competitive candidates for PhD position. The successful applicant will be working in a multidisciplinary research team in a new ARC Training Centre for Personalised Therapeutics Technologies...
PhD position available (Application closes December)
We are looking for highly motivated, passionate and competitive candidates for fully-funded PhD positions in basic molecular biology, cellular biology and nanobiotechnology. Successful candidates will join Professor Voelcker’s research group at the Melbourne Centre...
