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Advanced manufacturing technologies to support Australian companies to retool for on-demand and rapid manufacturing of personal protective equipment (PPE) and critical components of medical devices

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • start year

    -99

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $0

  • Principal Investigator

    Dr. Xiaopeng Li Unspecified

  • Research Location

    Australia

  • Lead Research Institution

    UNSW Sydney

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Infection prevention and control

  • Research Subcategory

    Barriers, PPE, environmental, animal and vector control measures

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Unspecified

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

By leveraging the expertise of a group of UNSW academics from different faculties and schools and working closely with our industrial partners and contacts in hospitals/LHD/Govt., this project aims to address the current urgent COVID-19 situation/problem regarding the severe ongoing medical shortage by helping Australian companies to establish a new on-demand/rapid manufacturing network/technique for rapid production of PPE and medical devices. The successful delivery of this project will (1) provide new manufacturing techniques and processes based on 3D printing and knowledge/data-driven predictive modelling and (2) help local companies/industrial partners to scale up the production based on our design and techniques in (1) to help boost the supply of better PPE (e.g., antiviral/replaceable filters) and medical devices/components for ICUs.