16th JPIAMR transnational call for research projects - AMR diagnostics and surveillance 2023 (DISTOMOS)

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: The University of New South Wales
• Country: Australia (AU)
• Career stage: Other.

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 1: to develop novel, or improve existing, diagnostics, including point of care diagnostics, that can rule out antimicrobial use or help identify the most effective antimicrobial treatment
• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

  Animal Health (incl. wild-life, livestock, acquatic organisms, and companion animals)
  Environment (incl. natural and built)

• Keywords:

  enzyme responsive; self-immolative linkers; click chemistry; photo responsive; self-assembly

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  Trained synthetic polymer chemist and materials scientist with strong experience in developing novel antimicrobial compounds (agents and adjuvants) and materials (bulk materials - gels; and thin films/coatings). My group is currently developing novel responsive compounds and materials that can be activated on demand for targeted and safe antimicrobial applications. The chemistries employed in our group could be extened to sensing/diagnostic purposes.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  Looking for projects that utilizes enzyme responsive and/or photo responsive chemistries (self immolative linkers in general) as a means to sense the presence of bacteria

Dr Edgar Wong

• Organisation: The University of New South Wales
• Position: ARC Future Fellow and Group Leader
• E-mail: edgar.wong@unsw.edu.au
• Web: edgarwonglab.com; research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-edgar-hoe-hon-wong; scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=hXqrkVsAAAAJ&hl=en