Robert Nordon

Associate Professor Robert Nordon is a faculty member at UNSW Sydney's Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering. He holds an MB BS, BMedSci, and PhD, with research focusing on advanced manufacturing and medical technologies. Since 2016, he has secured over $5M in research grants for projects in point-of-care diagnostics, cell/gene therapy manufacturing, and stem cell science.

Research interests span three primary domains:

• Developing microfluidic single-use disposables for scalable clinical cell production
• Modeling cardiovascular development using stem cell-based microfluidic systems
• Creating computational tools for single-cell analysis and lineage tracking

His publications (2017-2024) demonstrate strong emphasis on microfluidic device engineering, stem cell dynamics, and biomaterials development. Recurring themes include hematopoietic stem cell expansion, cardiac cell behavior, and peptide-based biomaterials.

Significant grants include:

• ARC Linkage Grant LP160100570: Scaling microfluidics for cell manufacture (2016-2019)
• ARC Linkage Grant LP160100573: 3D microstructures for medical devices (2016-2019)
• ARC Linkage Grant LP190100029: Electrophoretic cell sorters (2020-2023)
• CRC-P: Microbioreactor for affordable cell/gene therapy (2021-2023)

Current research trainees include Farzaneh Ziaee and Eric Du.