Daniel Heath is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Melbourne's Department of Biomedical Engineering. His research focuses on developing next generation biomaterials.
He has specific interest in blood-material interactions, as poor interactions between blood and biomaterials leads to the failure of many medical devices including vascular grafts and stents. His lab hopes to address these challenges by developing new biomaterials with improved blood-material interactions. In many ways, cells are the best producers of biomaterials. Therefore, the Heath Lab also looks at extracellular matrix materials and their applications as biomaterials. Core to this technology is the decellularization of tissue or cell cultures in order to produce extracellular matrix materials that can be used for a variety of applications.
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FEATURED Journal article
Biomaterials functionalized with nanoclusters of integrin- and syndecan-binding ligands improve cell adhesion and mechanosensing under shear flow conditions.
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Project Types
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Research Grant
4
Internal Research Grant
4
Research Contracts
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Scholarship to attend Science meets Parliament 2019
Distinguished University Fellowship
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Fellowship
Distinguished University Fellowship
Credentials
Positions
Arc Future Fellow - Biomedical Engineerng
Biomedical Engineering
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioengineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Fellow in Biosystems and Micromechanics
Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Center
Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
The Ohio State University
PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
The Ohio State University
Graduate Interdisciplinary Sepcialisation in College and University Teaching
The Ohio State University
Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering
Florida Institute of Technology