Collaborations
Izon is actively involved in setting up research collaborations with key institutions and individuals around the world.
Our aim is to work with our research partners for mutual long term benefit. Typically, our collaborations involve supply of instrumentation, upgrades, consumables, research suggestions and confidential information by Izon. Research is performed jointly with access made available for guest researchers to Izon’s laboratory in Christchurch New Zealand. New IP for applications or new discoveries is shared.
Current Collaborations
Active collaborations have been established with Universities and Research Institutes around the world.
Current projects cover the following areas:
- Nanoparticle size measurement
- Nanoparticle charge measurement
- Virus counting and characterisation
- Molecular Diagnostics Development & Research
- Characterization of Liposomes & Drug Delivery particles
- Exosome and Microparticle analysis
- Nanoparticles for Industrial Applications
- Fundamental science around resistive pulse sensing and variable nanopores
Participating institutions and projects:
New Zealand
- Auckland University (Department of Chemistry) – Flexible nanopore research
- Cawthron Institute – Fresh water and marine virus research
- Industrial Research Ltd – Nanopore and elastomer characterisation.
- MacDiarmid Institute – DNA sequencing through flexible nanopores
- National Centre for Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases – Influenza virus research.
- Victoria University of Wellington (School of Chemical and Physical Sciences) – Non-biological nanoparticle research
Australia
- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) – DNA clamping and molecular analysis.
- University of Queensland - Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) - Analysis of nanoparticle surface charge and aggregation studies
- University of New South Wales - Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) - Analysis of complex polymeric particles and functionalization dynamics
- University of Melbourne - (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering) - Analysis of concentration of nanoparticles/capsules for drug delivery
- National Measurement Institute (NMI) - Study of tunable nanopores for particle metrology
Singapore
- A*Star - Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE)– Functionalized gold nanoparticles in aggregation studies applied to medical diagnostics
United Kingdom / Europe
- Oxford University (Department of Chemistry) – Aggregation and particle analysis
- Oxford University (Department of Materials, BegbrokeNano) – Particle research
- Oxford University (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) – Gene therapy research
- Agrifood and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) - Animal disease diagnosis
- The Jenner Institute - Particle characterisation for vaccine research
- University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center – Combined approaches to microparticle analysis using qNano.
- Dublin City University (Biomedical Diagnostics Institute) - Particle functionalisation for diagnostics
United States
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) – Marine virology focusing on viruses infecting marine bacteria
- University of California, Santa Cruz (Department of Chemistry) - Marine virology research
- University of California, Santa Cruz (Department of Computer Engineering) - Single molecule analysis of DNA-binding proteins and feedback control of biological polymers in a nanopore.
- National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) - Nanoparticle research
- Johns Hopkins University - Institute for NanoBioTechnology - Detailed characterization of HIV virus isolated from patients
- Boston University, Department of Biomedical Engineering –Expansile nanoparticles for targeted Drug Delivery
