Research project

Bioengineering to combat the tuberculosis pandemic

Project overview

We will combine engineering and biological approaches to investigate the host-pathogen interaction and identify new therapeutic targets.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Paul Elkington

Director of Inst. for Medical Innovation

Research interests

  • tuberculosis
  • immunopathology
  • diagnosis
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Other researchers

Professor Xunli Zhang PhD, DIC, FRSC, CChem, CEng

Professor of Bioengineering

Research interests

  • Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies
  • Biomedical and Chemical Engineering
  • Nanomaterials
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Research outputs

Michaela T. Reichmann, Liku Bekele Tezera, Andres Vallejo Pulido, Milica Vukmirovic, Rui Xiao, James Reynolds, Sanjay Jogai, Susan Wilson, Benjamin Marshall, Mark Jones, Alasdair Leslie, Jeanine M. D'Armiento, Naftali Kaminski, Marta Polak & Paul Elkington, 2021, Journal of Clinical Investigation, 131(15), 1-16
Type: article
Quig Miow, Andres Vallejo Pulido, Yu Wang, Jia Hong, Chen Bai, Felicia Teo, Alvin Wang, Hong Loh, Tuan Tan, Ying Ding, Hoi She, Suay Gan, Nicholas Paton, Josephine Lum, Alicia Tay, Cynthia Chee, Paul Tambyah, Marta Polak, Yee Wang, Amit Singhal, Paul Elkington, Jon S. Friedland & Catherine W.M. Ong, 2021, Journal of Clinical Investigation, 131(15)
Type: article
Paul Elkington, Alexander Dickinson, Mark Mavrogordato, Daniel Spencer, Richard Gillams, Antonio De Grazia, Sebastian Rosini, Diana Garay Baquero, Laura Diment, Nitin Mahobia, Alexandra Mant, Tom Baynham & Hywel Morgan, 2021, Frontiers in Medical Technology, 3(664259), 1-11
Type: article
Diana J. Garay-Baquero, Cory H. White, Naomi F. Walker, Marc Tebruegge, Hannah F. Schiff, Cesar Ugarte-Gil, Stephen Morris-Jones, Ben G. Marshall, Antigoni Manousopoulou, John Adamson, Andres F. Vallejo, Magdalena K. Bielecka, Robert J. Wilkinson, Liku B. Tezera, Christopher H. Woelk, Spiros D. Garbis & Paul Elkington, 2020, JCI Insight, 5(18)
Type: article