FeBI is proud to be the industry partner on this collaborative project led by leading Australian Sports Scientist Prof Clare Minahan (Griffith University) to enable rapid, precise and minimally invasive detection of iron deficiency in female athletes.

With funding from the Queensland Government’s Quantum 2032 Challenge, this work will allow us to develop our quantum sensing technology with the aim of detecting iron deficiency in Australia’s female athletes in the lead up to Brisbane 32. Our hope is that female athletes competing for Australia will have optimised iron status thanks in large part to this work.

Our project ‘Strike While the Iron is Hot: revolutionising iron deficiency detection to elevate athlete health and performance‘ brings together leading researchers from Griffith University, the University of Melbourne and Australian Catholic University together with leaders in sports science from the Queensland Academy of Sport and specialists from Pathology QLD.