Australia’s visionary innovators recognised
Monash University Chancellor and ATSE President, Dr Alan Finkel
Monash University has again supported the ATSE Clunies Ross Awards, which honours Australia’s visionary innovators.
The ATSE Clunies Ross Awards recognise leaders for impacting global development in information technology, missile defence and medical diagnosis.
An ATSE Clunies Ross Award was presented to Dr Simon Poole and Dr Steven Frisken, Australia’s most successful commercialisers of new technologies, who have shaped the internet worldwide, including key components of the NBN in Australia.
Monash University Vice-Chancellor Professor Ed Byrne presented one of the awards to Dr Anthony Radford, Dr James Rothel, Dr Paul Wood (Monash University’s Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology) and Dr Stephen Jones. The team has fundamentally changed the way tuberculosis is diagnosed around the world, by inventing and commercialising revolutionary technology that is greatly assisting in global TB control in both humans and cattle.
Mr Ian Croser – a world leading radar and communications innovator who developed anti-ship missile defense radar that was the first of its kind worldwide, then went on to further the technology with cost, space and weight savings was also recognised with an award this year.
Previous winners include Professor Ian Frazer, inventor of the cervical cancer vaccine; Nobel laureate Dr Barry Marshall, who discovered bacteria that causes stomach ulcers; Dr Fiona Wood, inventor of spray-on skin; and Professors Martin Green and Stuart Wenham, international leaders in silicon cell technology.
The prestigious Awards acknowledge Australia’s pre-eminent scientists and technologists who have extended their research to the marketplace, to the point of making broad economic, social or environmental benefits.
For more information visit the ATSE website.
Monash University Chancellor and ATSE President, Dr Alan Finkel was the key note speaker and a copy of his address can be found here.