Deputy Director of the ARC Training Centre for Cell and Tissue Engineering Technologies (CTET), Dr Laura Bray, was successful through the Australian Research Council (ARC) 2021 Future Fellowship Scheme.
Minister for Education and Youth, Hon Alan Tudge announced funding for the projects, which focussed 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 project aims to study the endothelial cells that make up the blood vessels in different organs using bioengineered three-dimensional culture models. The research will improve our knowledge of how the cells within blood vessels form and function within different tissue microenvironments, so this information could be used in the future to understand how these vessels may malfunction in various diseases and improve drug efficacy and safety testing.
Dr Bray’s four-year project is due to commence early next year and will complement our work in CBT and CTET.