Leading researchers from QUT and Metro North Hospital and Health Service have been awarded more than $500,000 from the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund to assist with their work into virus reduction from surfaces.
The grant will fund research into ways of killing viruses such as COVID-19 on surfaces with a wet-etching technique, and was awarded to QUT’s Professor Prasad Yarlagadda (pictured) in partnership with Metro North Hospital and Health Service’s Professor Michael Schuetz and Associate Prof Kaushik Chatterjee from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. More info.