Battery technology wins award for research commercialisation

in the AFR Higher Education Awards 2022, which recognise and celebrate the outstanding efforts of Australian universities during the past year, have now been announced.

PBT has been catapulted into a fast growth stage as news of its technological breakthroughs make the headlines. It uses an environmentally superior processing technology commercially proven to produce more affordable nickel and cobalt battery materials.But the founders knew that two heads would be better than one throughout the process, collaborating with the University of Queensland’s commercialisation company UniQuest in search of a process that would make all the difference to the innovation.

PBT managing director Bjorn Zikarsky is firm that the collaboration with UQ will continue. “This combined leaching process is a great example of industry-led quality research and development continuing to develop and grow add-on technologies in collaboration with universities,” Zikarsky says. “The scientists have great experimental minds, and every idea is a rite of passage. But you’ve got to remember throughout the process that there isn’t necessarily a rainbow at the end of every idea,” he says.mDetect’s warning system in use at a tailings dam.

Exploration is already under way for applying the technology to the approximately 90,000 large water dams around the world. There are also potential defence and development applications around underground tunnelling near protected sites and water table monitoring.ImmVirX is a biotechnology company developing next generation, receptor targeted oncolytic viral immunotherapies to transform outcomes for patients with some of the most prevalent and challenging cancer types.

Professor Shafren leads 18 scientists and research staff working from ImmVirX’s state-of-the-art laboratory in Hunter Medical ResearchThe company, whose name is an amalgamation of immuno-oncology, virus and X , has defined a clear pathway for their proprietary viruses from pre-clinical evaluation to the first clinical trials in 2021. The trials target cancers with high unmet need, including colorectal, gastric, pancreatic and ovarian cancer.

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