Cooperative Research Centre for Diagnostics
Q Block, QUT Gardens Point Campus
2 George Street
Brisbane
Queensland
Australia
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The CRC for Diagnostics (CDx) brings together leading Australian-based diagnostic research organisations and end-users to provide a Centre for Excellence in the development of novel diagnostic technologies. The research portfolio can be divided into 5 broad streams:
Protein profiling - novel targets for diagnosis and monitoring of complex chronic diseases
High affinity reagents - novel reagents and new platforms for library construction and screening using compact protein domains and peptides
Genome diagnostics - human SNPs for physical characteristics, prostate cancer and genome stability
Infectious disease diagnostics - nucleic acid and antigen/antibody tests and microbial genotyping
Homogeneous reporter systems - analyte activation of enzymatic reporters
Key research and innovation areas:
CDx integrates protein and nucleic acid-based technologies, processes and products for rapid in vitro diagnosis and monitoring of human diseases and phenotypes. It develops platform technologies in molecular diversity, molecular interactions, genomics and proteomics for biomarker discoveries, target binding and reporter systems. CDx develops and exploits diagnostic platforms to enable more patient-specific screening for predisposition of selected diseases and medical conditions.
Specific projects/technology offers:
Novel SNPs for human physical appearance
SNP genotyping technology for rapid bacterial identification and typing
Technology for production of generic positive control reagents for in vitro immunodiagnostic assays
Novel DNA amplification and detection methods
High affinity binding molecules, including novel compact protein domains and peptide libraries
Novel in vivo molecular evolution processes for improvement of binding reagents
Improvement of protein folding and expression in suitable recombinant protein expression systems
Contact:
Professor Ian Gardner
CEO, CRC for Diagnostics
Q Block, QUT Gardens Point Campus
2 George Street
Brisbane QLD AUSTRALIA
Tel: 61-7-3864-4015
Last Updated: 05-12-04
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