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The Australian business sector has recognised The University of Queensland's effectiveness in
collaborating with industry to develop relevant and commercially-viable products through its research.

UQ projects won two awards, with third receiving an honourable mention, at the Business/Higher Education Round Table (B-HERT) 2002 Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Collaborative R&D.

Professor Istvan Toth, from the School of Pharmacy working with pharmaceutical company Alchemia, won the category for small to medium-sized companies involved in project or program from 18 months to five years in duration.

The program is divided into two research projects, the first aimed at improving the oral delivery of poorly absorbed drugs, and the second at developing novel carbohydrate vaccines for the treatment of cancer and viral infections.

UQ's Cooperative Research Centre for Mining Technology and Equipment won the Outstanding Achievement in Collaborative R&D involving a CRC for its Universal Dig and Dump (UDD) project.

The project enhances the functionality of the dragline, the workhorse in open-cut mining, potentially increasing productivity by 25 percent annually.

In the large companies program of more than five years category, a project involving UQ's Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation was honorably mentioned. The project is developing a soil cover to help leach salts from alumina production.

Professor Istvan Toth www.uq.edu.au/uqresearchers/researcher/tothi.html

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