The call for nominations for the Prime Minister's Science Prize for 2010 is underway.

The Prime Minister's Prizes for Science are Australia's pre-eminent annual awards for excellence in science and science teaching.  Previous winners include Frank Fenner, Donald Metcalf, Jacques Miller, Ian Frazer and Graeme Clark and John O'Sullivan.

Award recipients will be announced at a black tie awards ceremony in the Great Hall of the Parliament House in Canberra.

For further information, please email enquiries or expression of interest to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or nominate online.

Nominations close on Friday, May 21, 2010 at 17:00 AEST

The 2010 Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference, and the 17th Room Temperature Detector Workshop is calling for papers.  The events will be held from 30 October - 6 November in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

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New directors have been elected to the board of the CRC for Biomedical Imaging Development, following the Annual General Meeting in November 2009.  A new chair was also elected, Dr Bruce Godfrey, who has served as an independent board member for three years, and has also chaired the company’s Strategy and Communications Committee for that same period.

Dr Godfrey welcomed to the board Dr John Morris, who is an independent director, and Mr David Walker, who replaces Ms Christina Hardy as the delegate from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research.  The new directors bring a wide range of experience in technology development and commercialisation.

Dr Godfrey expressed his thanks to Dr Mike Dalling, AM, who stepped down as Chair of CRCBID at the AGM last year, after a period of three years.  “Dr Dalling has provided valuable guidance for the company during its early stages, with his insights into the innovation process.”

Dr Godfrey said he was looking forward to working with his colleagues on the board in gearing up for the commercial focus of CRCBID as it translates its research programs to clinical outcomes and identifies its development priorities.

New CRCBID Chair, Dr Bruce Godfrey    image courtesy TD Images

Further information:

Amanda Caldwell 02 6288 6988; 0410 148 173

CRC Association is calling for nominations for its 2010 Excellence in Innovation Awards.

Applications close Tuesday 16 February 2010.

Further information: CRC_Assosiation_Awards_for_Excellence_in_Innovation_flyer_2010.pdf

Highlights from CRCBID's 2008-09 Annual Report - 2008-09_CRCBID_Annual_Report_Summary.pdf

A University of Queensland associate professor has taken out the top honour at a science awards ceremony in Brisbane.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/17/2744656.htm

A recent survey in Britain has found that the X-ray machine is the best invention, ahead of Apollo 10 and Stephenson's Rocket.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8339877.stm

Research resulting from the CRC for Biomedical Imaging Development (CRCBID) partnerships will be featured in a special session on Biomedical Electronics and Systems for Patient Diagnosis at the International Symposium for Integrated Circuits (ISIC) being held in Singapore in December 2009.

The session was initiated by Dr Ronny Veljanovski, Project Manager for the Detectors Stream of the CRCBID, who is also serving as a Technical Program Committee member of ISIC.The session will provide a series of presentations targeted towards patient diagnosis. The focus is on biomedical imaging applications such as X-ray based computed tomography (CT) using hybrid pixel detector technology.

“I am confident that the session will engage and captivate the audiences,” says Ronny, “by featuring the research and technical developments that the Monash Centre for Synchrotron Science (MCSS) and the Cooperative Research Centre for Biomedical Imaging Development (CRCBID) have produced over recent times. They’ll learn how our work has led to advances in biomedical imaging, as well as how that contribution will continue in the future.”

Researchers and engineering staff at MCSS/CRCBID submitted a total of six papers for peer review for this session, and formal acceptance letters were received in September 2009.

Further information:

Conference website is http://www.isic2009.org
Special session is http://isic2009.org/session_8.asp

Read more: ISIC Singapore session sets up CRCBID researchers

A CRCBID education seminar designed to facilitate cross-discipline communication among the research participants of the CRCBID was held in July. Members of the research teams came together over two days to share information and learn about specific projects and their outcomes.

Papers were presented by representatives from both the CRCBID radiopharmaceutical stream and the detectors stream, as well as a session on intellectual property. Participants indicated that the seminar gave them more of a sense of working in a joint venture than on isolated research activities.

Another seminar is planned for 2010.

Read more: Education seminar offers CRCBID students networking opportunity