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Innovative ideas in the orthopaedic surgery, wound healing and computer gaming fields were among the winners of the bluebox discovery competition for 2007.
Three groups of Queensland University of Technology researchers from the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and the Faculty of Information Technology shared $10,000 in prize money to help translate the benefits of their research to the real world.
Open to imaginative, unique and inventive research within QUT, the competition rewards ideas which have commercial applicability, and may ultimately provide benefits to the community, industry or government.
First place ($5,000):
- Dr Ben Goss, Cameron Lutton, and Dr Lance Wilson – Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation – for the development of a new orthopaedic surgery tool to cut bone cement.
- Dr Tim Dargaville – Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation – for a new method of improving wound healing using pH indicators.
- Alfredo Nantes – Faculty of Information Technology – for an artificial intelligence system for computer game testing.
- Sam Wallace – Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
- Dr Madeleine Schultz, Dr Mark Wellard and Professor Judith Clements – Faculty of Science
