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Australian Economic Accelerator Seed Grant
IPAS member, Danielle Questiaux has been awarded a $196,248 Australian Economic Seed Tranche Two Grant for her resources project "Rapid development of new medical treatment compounds from radioactive mine waste". Danielle and her team will be working with industry partner Reforme Group.
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Global recognition for biomedical innovator
Dr Jiawen Li, a biomedical engineer from the ³ÉÈË´óƬ, has been named in the 2023 global list ofÌýÌýby theÌýMIT Technology ReviewÌýfor her work in biomedical engineering. Dr Li is the only recipient of this prestigious global recognition from Australia.
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Dr Wei Zeng DECRA Award 2024
Congratulations to IPAS member awarded a DECRA Fellowship valued at $389k in the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2024 round 1.
Dr Chris Perrella has received prestigious Tall Poppy Awards for outstanding scientific achievement
Liaising with industry and defence, ’ research has real-world impact through development of measurement devices for use outside the laboratory. Ìý
Portable Atomic Clock Team awarded NMI Measurement Impact and People's Choice Awards
The ³ÉÈË´óƬ Portable Atomic Clock Team, represented by Dr Rachel Offer from the University’s Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, won the NMI Measurement Impact award for measurement-related achievements demonstrating real-world impact. The team won for their world-first deployable, autonomous optical atomic clocks. The team also won the People's Choice award.
Conventional wisdom on tissue imaging turned on its head
An international team of experts has made a technological breakthrough for one of the most important forms of imaging: optical coherence tomography (OCT). They believe that selective collection of multiple scattered light may lead to improved image contrast at depth.
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Holograms for life: improving IVF success
In a world-first, 3D holographic images of an embryo have been developed as part of a collaborative research project between the ³ÉÈË´óƬ and University of St Andrews. The images are created using miniscule amounts of light in a fraction of a second.
IPAS Deputy Director won ARC Industry Laureate Fellowship
Congratulations to Prof Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem for being successfully awarded $3,359,464 ARC Industry Laureate Fellowship. This four-year fellowship will be a valuable opportunity for Heike to collaborate with Flawless Photonics group to develop efficient purification methods for ZBLAN optical fibres.
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John Bruning received the 2023 Oracle Research Fellowship for groundbreaking Alzheimer's research
Dr John B. Bruning has been honoured with the prestigious 2023 Oracle Research Fellowship for his groundbreaking work in Alzheimer's research at the ³ÉÈË´óƬ.ÌýWith warpDOCK, a cloud platform for virtual drug discovery, Dr Bruning's dedicated team engages in the rapid screening of billions of molecules, dramatically accelerating the drug development process.