Some liquid biopsy nanodiagnostics for monitoring cancer and the human immune system
Biography: Dr Alain Wuethrich is a NHMRC Emerging Leadership fellow and DECRA awardee at the Centre for Personalised Nanomedicine, AIBN, UQ. Alain obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 2016 from the University of Tasmania, after which he joined UQ as a Swiss National Science Foundation fellow under the mentorship of Prof Matt Trau. His multidisciplinary research develops diagnostic tools that harness nanotechnology and microfluidics to deliver patient-specific molecular profiles for precision medicine. Currently, his research focuses on the development of highly sensitive and multiplexed systems to study extracellular vesicles in cancer, detect immune toxicities in cancer and infectious diseases, and monitor aberrant protein phosphorylation in lung cancer.
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