Funding to fast-track the growth of Australia’s next generation of marine bioproducts industries.
A team of researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterial Science (ACES) based at the University of Wollongong (UOW), in conjunction with a consortium of 68 Australian and international partners, has been awarded $59 Million in funding in the latest round of grants from the Federal Government’s Cooperative Research Centres program.
The funding will fast-track the growth of Australia’s next generation of marine bioproducts industries and, ACES researchers will provide bioengineering and biomaterials expertise for the Marine Bioproducts Cooperative Research Centre (MB-CRC), bringing together the excellence of fabrication skills at UOW with the growing research and industry activity in marine bioresources.
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Molecules from unique species similar in structure and function to human skin molecules
Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterial Science (ACES) and University of Wollongong (UOW), in partnership with their seaweed bioinks collaborators Venus Shell Systems, have discovered that a molecular species known as ulvan aids wound healing in humans.
Their research paper is the cover story on the latest issue of Biomaterials Science. Titled ‘3D bioprinting dermal-like structures using species-specific ulvan’, the new findings outline how ulvan contained in green seaweed can play a key role in wound healing with its structure resembling the biomolecules found in humans.