Intelligent Health
Innovative technologies and intelligent, data-driven social strategies will shape the future of healthcare.
Together, University of Adelaide and University of Nottingham researchers will explore how transformational biotechnologies and tools, better understanding of health systems, and inclusive, evidence-informed socio-health policies will improve outcomes. Our multi-disciplinary, intelligence-informed approach will help make health systems more agile, tailoring care for the needs of individual patients while improving wellbeing for communities at a national and global scale.
Collaboration in action
Microscopy at the tip of a hair-thin optical fibre
As part of an international team, researchers at the University of Adelaide and University of Nottingham have developed an approach that makes advanced microscopy possible through an optical fibre thinner than a human hair. The new approach will benefit advanced microscopy techniques such as light sheet microscopy, in which a volumetric image of the sample is built up by imaging one plane at a time, or stimulated emission-depletion microscopy, which allows incredibly small structures a billionth of a metre in diameter to be imaged.
Ground-breaking diabetes research
Researchers from the University of Nottingham and the University of Adelaide will employ cutting-edge neuroimaging techniques for the first time to identify how the tongue and digestive tract sense sweet stimuli and integrate this signalling in the brain of people with type 2 diabetes. These findings will inform the development of new personalised dietary and drug treatment strategies that improve management across the range of diabetic disease. This research is funded by Diabetes UK.
Theme leads
Adelaide lead
Professor Amanda Page
School of Biomedicine
Nottingham lead
Dr Sally Eldeghaidy
School of Biosciences