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New ARC Centre behavioural economics to spur adoption of beneficial technology
QUT researchers will lead the $6.5 million ARC Training Centre for Behavioural Insights for Technology Adoption (BITA) that aims to accelerate Australians’ adoption of innovation technologies in health, agriculture and cybersecurity.
Health, agriculture and cybersecurity innovations offer greater productivity and sustainability
Collaboration between three universities and industry designed to speed take-up of new technologies
Shock of the new causes resistance to new technologies if benefits not well understood
Lead researcher QUT Professor Uwe Dulleck from the Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology (BEST) and QUT’s School of Economics and Finance said the centre involves 15 QUT researchers from four faculties with six from the University of Western Australia and seven from the University of Queensland.
Anti-androgen therapy for patients with advanced prostate cancer may fuel bone metastasis
Dr Bock, under the mentorship of Distinguished Professor Dietmar Hutmacher, from QUT Centre for Biomedical Technologies, has focused her research on bone metastases from breast and prostate cancers.
She developed 3D miniature bone-like tissue models in which 3D printed biomimetic scaffolds are seeded with patient-derived bone cells and tumor cells to be used as clinical and preclinical drug testing tools.
The research team investigated their hypothesis that traditional anti-androgen therapy had limited effect in the microenvironment of prostate cancer bone tumors. The team s findings are published in
Science Advances.