Professor Andrea O’Connor, BE(Hons), PhD, FIChemE is the Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and leads the Tissue Engineering Group at the University of Melbourne. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995-96.
Her research is focussed on design, synthesis and fabrication of biomaterials, porous materials and antimicrobial nanomaterials. She is particularly interested in strategies for scale-up of tissue engineering including vascularisation, and design of antimicrobial materials for medical implants. She has published over 80 journal articles, co-authored the chapter on Tissue Engineering for the major reference work ‘Plastic Surgery’ edited by Neligan and Gurtner, lectured on tissue engineering and biofabrication at the Bayreuth International Summer School, Germany, and was a finalist in the 2017 Graeme Clark Institute HealthTech Innovation Challenge. Andrea also led the engineering team on the world-first Neopec clinical trial of breast reconstruction using tissue engineering, showing proof-of-principle of tissue engineering of large volumes of well vascularised fat tissue. She collaborates with a range of hospitals, medical research institutes and medical device companies to improve existing products, develop new devices and solve clinical problems.
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FEATURED Journal article
Biofabrication of human articular cartilage: a path towards the development of a clinical treatment
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Project Types
23
Research Grant
12
Research Contracts
9
Internal Research Grant
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Best Paper Award for 2007
Selby Research Award
Science and Technology Agency of Japan Fellowship
Fullbright Occasional Lecturer Award
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow Award - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Postgraduate Scholarship 3 years
Scholarship 3 years
FICHEME - Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers
Credentials
Positions
Head Of Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Associate Editor, Journal Of Biomaterials And Tissue Engineering (2011- )
Journal of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Member Of The International Mesostructured Material Association
International Mesostructured Material Association
Member Of The International Zeolite Association
International Zeolite Association
Termis
Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine International Society
Special Research Centre Of The Australian Research Council Based At The University Of Melbourne
Particulate Fluids Processing Centre [PFPC]
Ordinary Member
Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Corporate Membership
IChemE
Member Aaee
Australian Association for Engineering Education
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Engineering
University of Melbourne