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Program Leader: Professor Peter Timms QUT's Infectious Diseases Research Program (IDRP) aims to deliver effective vaccines, patient-friendly treatment methods and effective diagnostic tests to combat a range of important bacterial and viral diseases. Led by Professor Peter Timms, this program focuses on both bacterial and viral diseases and their global ramifications. The program utilises a diverse range of technologies, including cell biology, bioinformatics, genomics, modelling, cell culture, biochemistry, microscopy, epidemiology and immunology to better understand the mechanisms of pathogenesis in selected microbial and viral pathogens and to develop diagnostic tests, vaccines, and therapeutics for these infections. QUT's Infectious Diseases Research Program comprises five (5) specific sub-programs which all offer current and prospective students) and staff a variety of projects on which to work. They include Chlamydia, Reproductive Health - investigating ureaplasmas, mycoplasmas & chlamydia, Lactic Acid & Dairy Fermentation, Arbovirology & Microbial Genotyping and Epidemiology. Researchers within the program are internationally renowned, widely published in scientific literature, and have made a number of novel and commercially valuable findings in each of their fields. QUT's Infectious Diseases Research Program values its supporters and collaborators, and would like to thank them for helping QUT Scientists to bring better health benefits to people from the local area to the global community. "We stand on the brink of a global crisis in infectious diseases. No country is safe from them." - Dr Robert Glasser, CEO - CARE Australia, The Canberra Times, 4/ 02/ 2004. |
