Eureka!

For many years, UTS has excelled at “hiding our light under a bushel”. So says Vice-Chancellor Attila Brungs. But now, thanks to the efforts of a range of staff – from researchers to professional staff, senior executive and right down the ranks – the lights are starting to shine.

Most recently, on Wednesday 26 August, UTS Professors Dacheng Tao (from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology) and Dayong Jin (from the Faculty of Science) took out two Australian Museum Eureka Prizes. They mark UTS’s fifth and sixth Eureka wins over the past 13 years.

Jin, leading an interdisciplinary team with colleagues from Macquarie University, the University of South Australia, University of Adelaide and Minonic International Ltd, was awarded the UNSW Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research. Their work involves the creation and use of a library of torch-like nanocrystals, known as Super Dots®, which can illuminate hidden diseased cells in a living body.

The technology was developed and patented at Macquarie University by Jin and his team, before he joined UTS this year to grow the multidisciplinary research Institute for Biomedical Materials and Devices.

Read the full story on the UTS Newsroom.