What has been funded – STEM+ Business Fellowship Program

The STEM+ Business Fellowship Program provides a mechanism for Early Career Researchers (ECR) to build new skills and relationships with industry. ECR, research organisations and small and medium sized (SME) Australian businesses will work together to develop innovative commercial solutions that build Australia’s national competitiveness.

Company	Research Organisation	Early Career Researcher	Project Title
Ytek Pty Ltd	Deakin University	Dr James Zhang	Automated Performance Evaluation using Computational Intelligence
Dyesol Limited	Australian National University	Dr Kristen Simpson & Dr Stephen Wang	Characterisation of Perovskite Solar Cells
Cell Care Australia Pty Ltd	Monash University	Dr Abhilasha Tiwari	Umbilical Cord Blood Cells and their Neurotrophic Factors for the Treatment of Neurological Disorders
Sementis Limited	University of South Australia	Dr Tamara Cooper	Development of a Prototype Immunomodulatory Vaccine for Cat Allergy
Infratech Industries Pty Ltd	University of Newcastle	Dr Hui Song	Advanced Materials Research for Thermochemical Energy Storage
MecRx	CSIRO	Dr Rohan Volpe	Cancer Inhibitor Compounds
Pharmaxis	Heart Research Institute	Dr Ben Rayner	Myocardial Ischaemia Injury
Hexima	La Trobe University	Dr James McKenna	Control of Candida Biofilms
DefendTex	Swinburne University of Technology	Dr Soon Hock Ng	Engineering a Plasma Breakdown
CingleVue	University of Technology Sydney	Dr Liang Zheng	Deep Learning Smart Systems
Aquarius	Griffith University	Dr Ehsan Eftekhari	Corrosion Inhibitor Monitoring
Apollo MIT	University of Newcastle	Dr Longting Lin	Stroke Medication Decision Software
Ecobiotics	University of Sunshine Coast	Dr Trong Tran	Plant Derived Cancer Therapies
TPI	La Trobe University	Dr Michael Dodr	Poppy: Intolerance to Trifluralin
Xinova	University of New South Wales	Dr Sreenu Jennepalli	Coconut Waste for Carbon Fibre
Anatara	La Trobe University	Dr Tang Yongqing	Pineapple Proteases for Diarrhoea
Optotech	RMIT University	Dr Adam Chrimes	Laser Marking of HDD Platens
AdAlta	La Trobe University	Dr Chris Hosking	Fibrosis Related GPCR Target
Mayne Pharma	University of South Australia	Dr Ahmad Abuhelwa	Model Based Methods for Drugs
StarPharma	Monash University	Dr Daniel Yuen	Protein Engineering
StarPharma	Monash University	Dr Ka Fung Noi	Dendrimer Based Nanomedicines
Mayne Pharma	Hudson Institute	Dr Vijesh Vaghjiani	Development of Itraconozole
Sementis	University of South Australia	Dr Liang Liu	SCV Vector Vaccine Manufacturing
Puratap	University of South Australia	Dr Martin Sweetman	Advanced Carbon Water Purification
WHA	University of Technology Sydney	Dr Fan Dong	Health Risk Management
Australian Bay Lobster Producers	Griffith University	Dr Xun Yu	Aquafarming Vision Technology
MDI	CSIRO	Emmanuel Debele	Drug Manufacturing Process
MexRx	CSIRO	Dr Nicolas Spiccia	Inhibitor Compounds for cMyc
Pharmaxis	University of Newcastle	Dr Mark Bigland	IRAP Inhibitors and Fibrosis
Leasing Information Systems	CSIRO (Data61)	Dr Shaukat Abidi	Digtal Lease
Vault Systems	University of Technology Sydney	TBA	Government Cloud Security