The Queensland Government has announced 30 industry research fellowships.
The University of Queensland takes 16 of the awards and QUT 11. The University of the Sunshine Coast (two) and CQU (one) account for the rest.
Award winners are:
Adnan Trakic (UoQ): microwave inspection, civil and marine industry ($300 00)
Anne Sawyer (UoQ) vaccines for fungal pathogens in crops ($180 00)
Asha Mathew (QUT) biofabrication for tissue implants ($180 00)
Carlos Horacio Luna-Flores (QUT) commercial antioxidant production in new yeast strains ($180 00)
Christopher Leonardi (UoQ) coal seam gas ($300 00)
Darryn Rackermann (QUT) bio-refining ($300 00)
Elizabeth Martin (QUT) innovation in maternity services ($180 00)
Erin Price (USC) diagnostics for lung diseases (300 00)
Fangfang Tang (UoQ) compact head-MRI scanners ($180 00)
Feifei Bai (UoQ) equipment monitoring in distribution networks ($180 00)
Hangil Park (UoQ) (sensors in fine coal recovery) ($180 00)
Helen Nahrung (USC) forest biosecurity ($180 00)
Jaime Manning (CQU) autonomous detection of sheep disease and predation ($180 00)
Jaimi Greenslade (UoQ) Emergency Department chest pain protocols ($300 00)
Jonathan Ellis (QUT) preventing adverse drug reactions ($300 00)
Laura Croft (QUT) new cancer therapeutic ($300 00)
Maggy Sikulu-Lord (UoQ) malaria diagnostics ($300 00)
Majid Ejtemae (UoQ) tailings de-watering in coal industry $300 00)
Mark Allenby (QUT) bio-fabrication in vascular surgery ($180 00)
Miaoqiang Lyu (UoQ) thin-film batteries for personalised electronics ($180 00)
Muxina Konarova (UoQ) solid-waste refinery ($300 00)
Neha Gandhi (QUT) molecular design of chemotherapeutics ($300 00)
Pradeep Shukla (UoQ) decontaminating surface and ground water ($300 00)
Sean Powell (QUT) bio-fabrication for burn treatment ($180 00)
Tim Huelsen (UoQ) creating feed from agri-industrial wastewater ($180 00)
Tuan Nguyen (UoQ) bauxite residue management ($180 00)
Upendra Shekhawat (QUT) disease-resistant Cavendish bananas ($180 00)
Xiaodan Huang (UoQ) rechargeable multivalent metal ion batteries ($300 00)
Yifan Wang (UoQ) autonomous satellite terminal for ubiquitous broadband ($300 00)
Zhanying Zhang (QUT) converting bio-solids into hydrochar bio-fertiliser ($300 00)