V-C's Excellence in Research Awards 2009

> Research Excellence for Senior Researchers Award recipient:
Professor Mark Walker (Director, Centre for Medical Bioscience, School of Biological Sciences)

With Highly Commended:
Prof. Geoffrey Spinks (Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering)

> Research Excellence for Emerging Researcher Award:
Dr Simon Moulton (Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, Science Faculty)

With Highly Commended:
Dr Aidan Sims (School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, Faculty of Informatics) and 
Dr  Todd Mitchell (School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health & Behavioural Sciences)

> Outstanding Achievement in Research Partnership:
Professor Stephen Pyne (Faculty of Science) with Industry Partner : Johnson and Johnson Research “New pharmaceutical drug discovery”

With Highly Commended:
Professor Buddhima Indraratna. With Industry Partner ; Rail CRC “Innovations in design and construction of ballasted trail tracks”

> Excellence in Research Supervision:
Associate Professor Brian Jones (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science)

With Highly Commended:
Prof Xu-Feng Huang, (School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health & Behavioural Sciences)

> Photographs from the Awards Ceremony available