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At a special awards ceremony - celebrating science excellence in Victoria, the recipients of the prestigious Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation and the Victoria Fellowships were announced.

The Hon. Martin Pakula MP, Minister for Jobs, Innovation and Trade presided over the awards, held at the Investment Centre Victoria on Tuesday, 19 November 2019. Click here for the Media Release.

Victoria has a new secret weapon to fight the war on waste and improve manufacturing opportunities with the arrival of the 2019 veski innovation fellow Associate Professor Timothy Scott and his breakthrough 3D printing technology, developed in partnership with colleagues at the University of Michigan. 

Senior Research Fellow, Dr Sue Haupt and PhD student Franco Caramia, with veski innovation fellow Professor Ygal Haupt, have co-led research at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre shedding new light on why men are more likely than women to get cancer, uncovering a new role for the X chromosome in affecting cancer risk and mortality - published in

Dr Thushara Perera, a Research Fellow at the Bionics Institute who received a Victoria Fellowship in 2016 to visit Europe to further his research into Parkinsons Disease, became the recipient of an AMP Foundation's Tomorrow Fund on 28 November 2019. This is a highly prestigious award granted to only the very best of Australia’s young scientists, social innovators and educators. In 2019, only 37 individuals received grants from a pool of 1,633 applicants.

Inventor Associate Professor Timothy Scott, 2019 veski innovation fellow, is commercialising a new 3D printer and resins, with speed, strength and other possible advantages over current light-based approaches. Brent Balinski spoke to Scott about the possibilities of volumetric production.  

Last week included several notable announcements around additive manufacturing in Australia. 

On Monday, 11 November 2019 veski partnered with the ARC Centre for Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, for the second year to deliver our veski kickstart to students in attendance at their annual summit held at Peppers the Sands Resort, Torquay. The veski kickstart program provided a unique opportunity to build connections between students and industry, academia and business sectors to foster conversations, introductions and provide candidates with professional development to assist career progression.

Each year in Australia over 1000 people are diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), an aggressive blood cancer. Less than one third of AML patients survive 5 years beyond diagnosis. Researchers from Monash University have discovered a key reason why this disease is so difficult to treat and therefore cure.

Monash University materials scientists, led by veski innovation fellow Professor Christopher McNeill, have helped uncover an important breakthrough in fundamental physics that further paves the way for the development of next-generation flexible, wearable devices powered by ‘spintronics’.