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Media Kit – 2016 CSL Young Florey Medal
After 160 years, it’s time to throw away the needle and syringe
Nanopatch starts clinical trials in Brisbane, with Cuba next
Rocket scientist Mark Kendall (UQ) reinvents vaccination and wins $25,000 CSL Young Florey Medal
Press materials available:
- Media release and backgrounder below
- Full profile here
- Video on YouTube
- HD footage (with and without sound)
- Photos of Mark and his technology
- Photos from the award night
The 2016 CSL Young Florey Medal was presented at the Association of Australian medical Research Institutes (AAMRI) dinner at on Wednesday 9 November in the Great Hall, Parliament House, Canberra
- Professor Mark Kendall helped create a small rocket for vaccine delivery.
- Then he invented a radically simpler concept that could replace the needle and syringe we’ve been using for 160 years.
- A small square of silicon with 20,000 microscopic spikes delivers vaccines directly to the skin’s immune cells.
- It’s painless, requires a fraction of the dose, doesn’t need refrigeration, and eliminates needle phobia.
- Now human clinical trials are underway in Brisbane, and the WHO is planning a polio vaccine trial in Cuba in 2017.
After 160 years, it’s time to move on from the needle and syringe
Professor Mark Kendall, University of Queensland
2016 CSL Young Florey Medal
Human trials of Mark’s Nanopatch are underway in Australia, and the concept has broad patent coverage. It’s being supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Merck and the WHO. A polio vaccine trial is being planned for Cuba in 2017.
But it’s not been an easy path. Mark has had to push the science and business worlds to see the value of a new approach to vaccine delivery. It took 70 presentations before he secured funding for the UQ spin-out company Vaxxas.
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Melbourne’s 3D jet engine technology flies into production in France
Launch at the Australian Embassy in Paris, France
Representatives from Monash and Amaero available for interview in Melbourne and Paris on Tuesday and Wednesday. Call Niall (in Paris) on +61 417 131 977 or Toni (in Melbourne) +61 401 763 130.
- Photos and video available
- Raw footage of the engine, printers and Amaero facilities
- Plus more about the technology in this backgrounder
- Read Safran’s media release in english and french
Amaero and Monash media release
The Monash University-led team who printed a jet engine last year have enabled a new venture for manufacturing aerospace components in France.
Melbourne-based Amaero Engineering—a spin out company from Monash University’s innovation cluster—has signed an agreement with the University and Safran Power Units to print turbojet components for Safran, the French-based global aerospace and defence company.
“Our new facility will be embedded within the Safran Power Units factory in Toulouse and will make components for Safran’s auxiliary power units and turbojet engines,” said Mr Barrie Finnin, CEO of Monash spin-out company Amaero.
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Safran media release
Safran Power Units, Amaero Engineering and Monash University announce a strategic partnership to deliver 3D printing aerospace components
Melbourne’s 3D jet engine technology flies into production in France
Launch at the Australian Embassy in Paris, France
Tuesday 8 November, 2016
French aerospace company Safran Power Units has signed an agreement with Australia’s Amaero Engineering and Monash University to print aerospace components.
“We will make components for auxiliary power units and turbojet engines within the Safran Power Units factory in Toulouse,” said Mr Barrie Finnin, CEO of Monash spin-out company Amaero. [Read more…] about Safran media release
Safran Power Units, Amaero Engineering et l’Université Monash annoncent un partenariat stratégique pour la production de composants aéronautiques imprimés en 3D
La production de moteurs à réaction basée sur la technologie australienne d’impression 3D démarre en France
Mercredi 9 novembre, 2016
La société aéronautique française Safran Power Units a conclu avec ses partenaires australiens Amaero Engineering et l’Université Monash un accord portant sur l’impression de composants aéronautiques.
« Nous fabriquerons, avec l’usine Safran Power Units de Toulouse, des composants pour les groupes auxiliaires de puissance et les turboréacteurs », explique Barrie Finnin, PDG d’Amaero, une société issue de l’Université Monash. [Read more…] about Safran Power Units, Amaero Engineering et l’Université Monash annoncent un partenariat stratégique pour la production de composants aéronautiques imprimés en 3D
What’s happening to our men?
Life’s transitions, mental health and suicidal ideation
On average, Australian men die four years younger than women, live with worse health and carry the greater burden of chronic disease. On the cusp of the hairy season, global men’s health charity the Movember Foundation has today released a survey that reveals the true state of men’s health around the world, and is urging all Australians to act fast to stop men dying too young.
The five-country survey of over 10,000 men and women shows that men deal with life’s big challenges in ways that can have long-term consequences for their physical and mental health.
The research revealed:
- Nearly half (46 per cent) of the men who had been through a stressful life event such as a relationship breakdown or sudden job loss during the past year reported experiencing suicidal thoughts or behaviours
- The men surveyed were more likely than women surveyed to cope with stressful life events in unhealthy ways, such as drinking, drugs, taking more risks and becoming more aggressive
- Men over 40 don’t recognise this is the peak age for risk of intentional non-accidental injury, such as self-harm or suicide.
Science as news: what are Western journalists looking for in Japanese science?
Symposium at Science Agora Festival 2016 (English language session)
Saturday 5 November, 1.30 pm to 3.30 pm
Meeting room #1, 4th floor of Tokyo International Exchange Center, 2 Chome-2-1 Aomi
What turns science into news? What makes a science story international? What are the BBC, New York Times, PBS, The Economist, and other international media really looking for in a science story?
This symposium will give Japanese scientists and policy makers guidance on how to get their stories into the mass media in Western countries.
The session will include practical advice from working journalists and science communicators about how scientists and organisations can pitch their stories to Western TV, radio, print, and online publications.
A free forum open to all.
Please register for this symposium here.
Further information
Over the two-hour session, we’ll facilitate a forum with foreign correspondents and science reporters who will tell the participants what they (and their audience) look for in a story. We will also provide advice to the attendees about how they can make their story work for Western media.
This session will be presented by Mr Niall Byrne from Science in Public, the Australian-based science communication agency. The Science in Public team have helped scientists bring their science stories to national and international attention including the loss of half the coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef; the world’s first printed jet engine; and the Higgs boson discovery. They also organised the World Congress of Science Journalists in Melbourne in 2007.
Melbourne and Sydney lead as hotspots for innovation in Australia
Nature media release
According to the Nature Index, Melbourne was Australia’s leading city in terms of high-quality science output in 2015, followed by Sydney. The index also shows that Brisbane saw the fastest growth in output between 2012 and 2015, and is home to the highest-placed institution in Australia, The University of Queensland (UQ), which made the largest contribution by share of authorship to high-quality papers than any other institution last year. Overall, Australia’s high-quality research output has grown considerably, up by 10% in just three years, placing it 12th in the index’s global standings.
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