Grant Award View - GA188791
Mechanofluorescent Surfaces for Understanding Complex Cell Traction...
- GA188791-V2 - Variation to Grant (16-Jan-2023 )
- GA188791-V1 - Grant Value & Contact Phone Updated (6-Oct-2021 )
This project aims to develop pressure-sensing surfaces that directly quantify surface forces, focused towards measuring complex cell traction forces. Understanding cell traction forces is a crucial challenge towards developing new materials for regenerative medicine. The surfaces, consisting of fluorescent polymer brushes, are expected to provide direct information on singular and clustered cell forces, which can reveal new insight into how cells interact together. This may provide currently missing information on how cell-surface interaction forces modulate cell growth, differentiation and tissue formation. This insight is crucial to providing the underpinning science that can position Australia at the forefront of regenerative medicine.