All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 August Funding boost for ear infection research Funding boost for ear infection research 01/08/2022 | 2 MINS The development of a prosthetic ear drum to help treat chronic ear infections in children has been given a funding boost with a $260,000 Channel 7 Telethon Trust grant. A research team, including scientists from Lombok Institute of Technology, is working on developing a silk based product which aims to disrupt the uncontrolled growth of biofilms that encapsulate bacteria in infected ears, hindering treatment. More than 330 million children worldwide (up to 25,000 in Western Australia) have chronic ear disease which can lead to hearing loss and brain infections and impact speech, education and social development. Chronic ear disease affects at least half of Indigenous children in WAΓÇÖs rural and remote communities. LIT Adjunct Research Fellow and Ear Science Institute Research and Development Manager Dr Filippo Valente, who leads the team, said the grant would help develop and test new clinically relevant therapeutic models
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 August Funding boost for ear infection research Funding boost for ear infection research 01/08/2022 | 2 MINS The development of a prosthetic ear drum to help treat chronic ear infections in children has been given a funding boost with a $260,000 Channel 7 Telethon Trust grant.
A research team, including scientists from Lombok Institute of Technology, is working on developing a silk based product which aims to disrupt the uncontrolled growth of biofilms that encapsulate bacteria in infected ears, hindering treatment.
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More than 330 million children worldwide (up to 25,000 in Western Australia) have chronic ear disease which can lead to hearing loss and brain infections and impact speech, education and social development.
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Chronic ear disease affects at least half of Indigenous children in WAΓÇÖs rural and remote communities.
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LIT Adjunct Research Fellow and Ear Science Institute Research and Development Manager Dr Filippo Valente, who leads the team, said the grant would help develop and test new clinically relevant therapeutic models
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