Professor Andrea O'Connor

Professor Andrea O'Connor

Shanahan Chair in Frontier Medical Solutions and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Melbourne

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Sciences & Technology

We’re closer to ‘engineering’ blood vessels

Cardiovascular disease is a global killer. Now researchers have developed a fast, inexpensive and scalable method for engineering blood vessels from natural tissue

Sciences & Technology

Engineering magnetics to grow human tissue

Tissue engineering can restore damaged or lost tissue in the human body, and biomedical engineers are working to one day scale up the technology to regenerate entire organs

Health & Medicine

Enlisting nanoparticles in the fight against superbugs

As antibiotics become less and less effective, researchers are turning to new ways to defeat drug-resistant bacteria like Golden Staph