Associate ProfessorAnna Waterhouse

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in Australia and Worldwide. Our goal is to understand the interactions of medical devices with patients’ blood, proteins and cells to develop more sophisticated and compatible materials for medical devices for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.

To achieve these goals, my team applies cutting edge bioengineering tools to develop new laboratory model systems to assess and understand the interplay of events at the biointerface. Combining physical, chemical and biological surface modification methods, medical devices can be manipulated to interact with, repel or adhere proteins or cells to improve medical device function, create unique model systems to study disease, and create novel diagnostics and medical devices.