Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation
Website:
Address:
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Biography:
The Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI) is the largest research institute at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and is based in a unique research facility at the Kelvin Grove Urban Village in Brisbane, Australia. IHBI research encompasses three broad areas of human health - prevention, mind and body health, and recovery.
With more than 750 institute members, IHBI draws from a wide base of leading health and biomedical researchers including engineers, medical practitioners, molecular biologists, infectious disease specialists, nurses, psychologists, public health experts, vision scientists, movement physiologists and statisticians.
IHBI has ongoing links with local and interstate hospitals, health researchers worldwide, clinical specialists and industry professionals. IHBI also benefits from QUT's highly successful track record in commercial partnerships and sustainable biotechnology companies.
By working with a broad network of health and medical professionals, IHBI believes it is possible to bridge the gap between science and better health for everyone.
IHBI research is clustered into five research domains which have significant expertise in the following areas:
Cells and Tissue Domain
- Infectious Diseases: vaccine development, molecular bacteriology and virology, population biology and diagnostics
- Tissue Repair and Regeneration: dermal wound repair and regeneration; bone, connective tissue and musculoskeletal repair and regeneration; biomaterials and scaffolds; mathematical modelling of repair regeneration
- Hormone Dependent Cancer Research: prostate cancer research, ADAM 10 Protease, ghrelin and growth factors, kallikrien proteases, mollecular and cell Biology.
Human Health and Wellbeing Domain
- Social and environmental determinants of health: Australian Sun and Health Research Laboratory, psychosocial predictors of health / risk factors
- Health Services research and policy: disease screening, care and quality of care
- Chronic disease and palliative care: chronic disease management and prevention, palliative care, dementia
- Child and youth health: child protection, nutrition in early childhood
- Mental health and wellbeing: resillience and wellbeing, therapy processes and outcomes, cross-cultural and community psychology.
Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation Domain
- Accident research and road safety: human behaviour anf technology interface, vulnerable road users, road safety education, fleet and workplace safety
- Workplace injury: ergonomics and motor control
- Falls prediction and prevention
- Medical Device Domain
- Orthopaedics and trauma research: medical engineering,spine research, cartilage research
- Artifical heart pump
- Regenerative Medicine
- Medical Physics.
Vision Improvement Domain
- Diabetes and opthalmic nerve damage
- Ocular growth regulation in myopia
- Contact lens and visual optics
- Vision driving and falls
- Ocular tissues.
