Trailblazer Winners 2008

Staff : Dr Allison Shorten – Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
"Informed Birth Choices: Pregnancy Decision Support Package"

Student : Jennifer Saville – Faculty of Science
"A novel non-invasive technique for the diagnosis of dry eye"

Runners Up

Staff : Dr Chris Lukey – Faculty of Engineering
"Polymer-based alternative to steel mesh for strata support in underground coal mines"

Student : Deirdre McGhee – Faculty of Health & Behavioural Sciences
"Novel sports bra design"

Highly Commended (2 staff members and 2 students)

A/Prof Steven Roodenrys & Dr Stuart Johnstone – Faculty of Health & Behavioural Sciences
"NeuroCog-TS"

Dr Simon Moulton – Faculty of Science
"In vivo site drug delivery: New Technology to replace mulesing in sheep farming"

Annaleise Riethmuller – Faculty of Education
"Jump start"

Guanghua Lian – Faculty of Informatics
"Closed – form exact solution approach for pricing variance swaps"

Successful Trailblazer recipients (from left) A/Prof. Steven Roodenrys; Dr Chris Lukey, Dr Allison Shorten; Jennifer Saville; Deirdre McGhee; Annaleise Riethmuller, Dr Simon Moulton and Dr Stuart Johnstone [Absent from photo was Guanghua Lian]

Other photos and more information: media website

Trailblazer Winners for 2007

Open Winner First - Dr Jun Chen (Science)
“Nanostructured Flexible Carbon Nanotube Electrodes for Energy System.”

Open Winner Runner up – Mr Mitchell Byrne (Health & Behavioural Sciences)
“Medication Alliance - I have developed a Mental Health staff training program that enables staff to understand the individual reasons for a patients non-adherence to medication.”

Student Winner First – Mr Michael Jones & Mr Tony Larchez (Informatics)
“Go-with-the-flow - Every Drop Counts: this invention is a compact water saving device which can be easily fitted to a standard showerhead. It provides an easy way for user control over water usage, based on a volume limit”

Student Winner Runner Up – Ms Ava Simms (Science)
“The OzMUSLE model was developed in order to determine, on an event basis, how soil erosion varies within catchments (area up to 250 km2)”

Highly Commended (2007)

Open – Prof. Aditya Ghose, Evan Morrison and Alexander Menzies (Informatics)
“Rapid Model Discovery - the process of building IT systems relies significantly on (mainly diagrammatic) software models to describe system requirements or to specify system designs.”
Open - A/Prof. Willy Susilo, Daniel Saffioti and Khin Than Win (Informatics)
“iLearning: Niche Learning Tools using iPod”
Student – Mr Michael Thomas (Science)
“OzID - A new weapon in the fight against obesity, diabetes and heart disease: identifying the molecular structure of fats and oils faster, cheaper and more precisely!”
Student – Miss Kori Nemme (Education)
“SpiritChild: an intervention program for parents and caregivers of children under seven years of age”.

(From Left to Right): Alistair Smith (from Davies Collison Cave), Jun Chen, Michael Thomas , Alexander Menzies, A/Prof Willy Susilo, Mitch Byrne, Ava Sims, Tony Larchez, Evan Morrison, Michael Jones, Prof. Aditya Ghose, Mark Horsburgh (from Fisher Adams Kelly)

Trailblazer winners for 2006 were:

Name	Category	Faculty	Name of Idea/Invention or Research Outcome
Dr C. Rujikiatkamjorn, Prof. B. Indraratna, Mr Anass Attya	Open Winner	Engineering	Prefabricated Vertical Cross Drain
Dr Lisa Kervin	Open Runner Up	Education	ClassSim
Dr Stephen Palmisano	Open Highly Commended	Health and Behavioural Sciences	Landing Flare Flight Training Software
Dr Weihua Li & Dr Bin Liu	Open Highly Commended	Engineering	Magnetic Field Sensor Based on Conductive Magnetorheological Elastomer
Mr Mark Gaykema & Mr Joseph Polder	Student Winner	Engineering	The invention is called the Leaf Lobber
Mrs Kara Perrow	Student Runner Up	Science	The targeted delivery of potent cytotoxins in the treatment of malignant disease
Mr Dieter Beaven	Student Highly Commended	Informatics	NanoStorm
Mr John Sampson	Student Highly Commended	Health and Behavioural Sciences	Muscle gain with less pain, or alternatively, the effect of neural drive on neuro-mechanical responsiveness of skeletal muscle.

Award-winners Mark Gaykema (front row, second from left), Anass Attya (middle) and Dr Cholochat Rujikiatkamjorn (second from right) are pictured with the 2006 Trailblazer competition finalists

Trailblazer winners for 2005 were:

$5000 Open winner- Miss Anna Henningham, Faculty of Science
"The metabolic Archilles heel of GAS"
$2000 Student winner- Mr Luke Scott, Faculty of Engineering
"Vacuum membrane distillation"
$3000 Open Runner-Up- Dr Willy Susilo, Faculty of Informatics
"Secure USB Disc Access"
$1000 Student Runner-Up- Mr Mark Havryliv, Faculty of Creative Arts
"Audio controlled games"
$500 Student Highly Commended- Mr Nuri Elbasha, Faculty of Engineering,
"Enhancing the strength and ductility of high strength reinforced concrete beams"
$500 Student Highly Commended- Mr Peter Kelly, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, "Homework generator"
$1,000 Open Highly Commended- Dr Bridget Munro, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, "Stretching straining landing training"
$ 1,000 Open Highly Commended- Mr Simon Meers, Faculty of Informatics, "Electro-Neural Vision System"

Pictured at the Trailblazers presentation (from left): Managers of Innovation and Commercial Development (Health, Education and Arts) Aapo Skorulis (left) and (Engineering, Science and Law) Dr Troy Coyle (right) with student recipients (from second left) Mark Havryliv, Luke Scott, Joonsana Baek (representing Willy Susilo), Peter Kelly, Anna Henningham, Simon Meers, Nuri Elbasha and Bridget Munro.