UQ’s Dr Hang Ta has received funding from the Heart Foundation for her research into how nanomedicines could detect and treat heart disease – still the single leading cause of death in this country.
Dr Ta received one of 15 Future Leader Fellowships awarded by the Heart Foundation to investigate nanomedicines, which will be coupled with MRI technology to detect and treat heart conditions such as blood clots and fatty plaque build-up in arteries.
The Heart Foundation also awarded Dr Ta the Paul Korner Innovation Award, an extra $20,000 prize given to the most innovative of the Future Leader Fellowships.
