How will biosensors change healthcare?
Imagine being able to detect when a virus enters the country. Or imagine detecting when a patient with a chronic disease is about to have a clinical episode. New sensor technologies are going to dramatically reframe healthcare.
Join the Graeme Clark Institute in this webinar on biosensors. We will show the diversity of sensor applications and their potential impact on healthcare – especially their ability to move us to a preventative intervention model rather than a treatment and rehabilitation model.
This panel is proudly presented by the MedTech platform, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology.
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Meet the panelists
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Professor David Nisbet (Chair)
Director of the Graeme Clark Institute and Professor of Translational Biomedical Engineering, University of Melbourne
David Nisbet is a Professor who is jointly appointed between the Faculty of Engineering and IT and the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He is the Director of the Graeme Clark Institute and the head of the Laboratory of Advanced Biomaterials. Dave joined the University of Melbourne after completing his PhD at Monash University and postdoctoral Fulbright scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley. He then spent over 10 years at the Australian National University, most recently as a jointly appointed professor between the Research School of Chemistry and the John Curtin School of Medical Research.
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Professor Mark Cook AO
Sir John Eccles Chair of Medicine, University of Melbourne, and Director of Neurology at St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
Mark Cook AO is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Sir John Eccles Chair of Medicine, University of Melbourne, and Director of Neurology at St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne. He is a neurologist recognised internationally for his expertise in epilepsy management, particularly imaging and surgical planning. He has worked closely with engineers for most of his career, developing novel therapies for epilepsy. His interests have included experimental models of epilepsy and seizure prediction, and he has led 3 first in human clinical studies of epilepsy devices and is involved in the commercialisation of an implantable seizure detection device currently.
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Professor Geoff Grossel
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Department of Agriculture Fisheries & Forestry
Geoff’s primary role for 10 months of the year is the Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Department of Agriculture Fisheries & Forestry (DAFF).
For the other 2 months Geoff takes time-out from DAFF to travel around the world for the World Organisation for Animal Health’s (WOAH) PVS Pathway Program evaluating Competent Authority Biosecurity Services at the national level, and consulting on the development & establishment of the WOAH Public Private Partnerships Program. In his spare time Geoff is a Professor (Adj.) at the University of Canberra & a member of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Agriculture, Fisheries & Food.
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Associate Professor Noushin Nasiri
Head of the NanoTech Laboratory in the School of Engineering at Macquarie University
Associate Professor Noushin Nasiri is Head of the NanoTech Laboratory in the School of Engineering at Macquarie University, where she leads a cross-disciplinary team working at the interface of nanotechnology, smart sensing, and wearable health technologies. A materials scientist and nanotechnologist, her research focuses on developing next-generation soft bioelectronic devices and imperceptible sensors for real-time physiological monitoring across humans, animals, and plants.
Professor Nasiri is internationally recognised for pioneering work in smart nanosensors, with applications ranging from the SunWatch—a UV nanosensing smartwatch for skin cancer prevention—to adaptive wearables for early disease diagnostics and agricultural health monitoring.
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