Chemical and Biological Defence
Life sciences and related advances in biotechnology platforms are having a great impact on society changing the way medicine is designed and prescribed and countermeasures to threat antigens are developed and validated. There is a merging of many disciplines including advanced modeling, sensors, bioinformatics, systems and synthetic biology. This theme is involved in these and other areas to address current and emerging challenges in chemical and biological threats to the military as well as the general community. The infrastructure required to address these complex areas draws on the large biomedical precincts in Australia as well as emerging large computing infrastructure dedicated to biosciences. These are being applied in the following areas:
- Validation of virulence factors
- Medical countermeasures
- Structure based drug design and
- Biodetection