2026

Winners

Jiawen (Yannee) Liu - Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

The Deathly Hallows of Medicines

Winner

Leena Bhadra - IITB-Monash Research Academy

Bio-Shield to the Wrap-scue!

Runner Up

Derek Chan Kwan Hoe - Monash University Malaysia

What If 3D Printing Inks Could Be Reused?

People's Choice

Finalists

Chitrangada Datta - Faculty of Science

The Hills Are Screaming: Unravelling the Geological Croissant in Australia's Red Centre

Judges' Commendation

Alexander Forbes - Faculty of Arts

Distributing the Costs and Benefits of Children

Pasindu Perera - Faculty of Engineering

One Size No Longer Fits All: Re-Weaving How We Take Vitamins

Jenna Perkins - Wildcard Winner (Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences)

General practice is the door to medication abortion care, but young people don't have the key

Rathria Arrina Rachman - Monash University Indonesia

Do Powerful CEOs Make Companies Greener?

Grace Liu - Faculty of Information Technology

Skin2Mind: Skin-based AI for Mental Health Risk Screening

Yiwen Yuan - Faculty of Education

When teachers step inside children’s play

Jack Hennessy - Faculty of Business and Economics

Locally-led or donor controlled? Just give us the money!

Mingshuo Li - Monash Art, Design and Architecture

Tracing Emotional Expression: From Visible Emotion to Revisitable Traces

Sandra Li - Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

After the Fire: Rebuilding the Brain After Stroke