Image: Professor Ju’s micro-device is being developed to help monitor blood for dangerous changes and potential clots. Credit: University of Sydney
The Fellowship will support the development of a micro-device that monitors and alerts people at risk of a heart attack or stroke to dangerous changes in the blood and possible clots.
Associate Professor Ju is the first engineer and University of Sydney recipient of the Fellowship. This year, he is one of only two emerging medical researchers, including Dr Michelle Boyle from the Burnet Institute in Melbourne, who will receive a million dollars a year for eight years, creating an unprecedented level of long-term support for their work. The Snow Fellowships are provided by the Snow Family, through Snow Medical, in recognition of the exceptional, visionary work the Fellows, and their teams, are doing in their chosen biomedical field.
“The impact of this Fellowship cannot be overstated. I congratulate Associate Professor Ju and his team on this powerful endorsement of their research which has the potential to save the lives of countless people both in Australia and around the world. I applaud Snow Medical Research Foundation (Snow Medical) for their generosity and commitment to the future of medicine and to accelerating the possibilities of this research,” said Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Mark Scott AO.
“We are proud and grateful to work with Snow Medical in mutually pursuing the ambitious goal of undertaking world-class research to solve global challenges.”
