About this event
Imagine being able to detect when a virus enters the country. Or imagine detecting when a patient with a chronic disease is about to have a clinical episode. New sensor technologies are going to dramatically reframe healthcare.
What happens when we can interface with the brain? What about when we can use external cell sensors to assess drug interactions? Sensor technologies could be used to evaluate vaccines or calibrate individual dose requirements for medications.
Sensors that measure what is happening in a cell or across clusters of cells will allow us to focus on preventative and individualised healthcare. Instead of relying on pathology results or physiological variables for recognising conditions, we may be able to recognise them from interfacing with cells.
Join the Graeme Clark Institute in this webinar on biosensors. We will show the diversity of sensor applications and their potential impact on healthcare – especially their ability to move us to a preventative intervention model rather than a treatment and rehabilitation model.
Chair and speaker
Professor David Nisbet (Chair)
Director of the Graeme Clark Institute and Professor of Translational Biomedical Engineering, University of Melbourne
Professor David Nisbet is jointly appointed between the Faculty of Engineering and IT and the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He is the Director of the Graeme Clark Institute and the head of the Laboratory of Advanced Biomaterials.
David is passionate about developing novel biomaterials, and particularly about seeing the biomaterials developed for clinical applications. His research groups consist of a team of engineers, chemists, and biologists, all working together to create novel materials to help combat injury and disease.
Professor Mark Cook AO
Sir John Eccles Chair of Medicine, University of Melbourne, and Director of Neurology at St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
Mark Cook AO is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Sir John Eccles Chair of Medicine, University of Melbourne, and Director of Neurology at St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne. He is a neurologist recognised internationally for his expertise in epilepsy management, particularly imaging and surgical planning. He has worked closely with engineers for most of his career, developing novel therapies for epilepsy. His interests have included experimental models of epilepsy and seizure prediction, and he has led 3 first in human clinical studies of epilepsy devices and is involved in the commercialisation of an implantable seizure detection device currently.
Professor Geoff Grossel
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Department of Agriculture Fisheries & Forestry
Geoff’s primary role for 10 months of the year is the Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Department of Agriculture Fisheries & Forestry (DAFF). For the other 2 months Geoff takes time-out from DAFF to travel around the world for the World Organisation for Animal Health’s (WOAH) PVS Pathway Program evaluating Competent Authority Biosecurity Services at the national level, and consulting on the development and establishment of the WOAH Public Private Partnerships Program.
In his spare time Geoff is a Professor (Adj.) at the University of Canberra and a member of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Agriculture, Fisheries & Food.
Associate Professor Noushin Nasiri
Head of the NanoTech Laboratory in the School of Engineering at Macquarie University
Associate Professor Noushin Nasiri is Head of the NanoTech Laboratory in the School of Engineering at Macquarie University, where she leads a cross-disciplinary team working at the interface of nanotechnology, smart sensing, and wearable health technologies. A materials scientist and nanotechnologist, her research focuses on developing next-generation soft bioelectronic devices and imperceptible sensors for real-time physiological monitoring across humans, animals, and plants.
Noushin is internationally recognised for pioneering work in smart nanosensors, with applications ranging from the SunWatch—a UV nanosensing smartwatch for skin cancer prevention—to adaptive wearables for early disease diagnostics and agricultural health monitoring.
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