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October 2008:
Professor Foster with the EXXON MOBIL award
Very Small Product With a Huge Future
That happened this month to Neil Foster, professor of chemical engineering at the University of NSW, when he was given a $60,000 grant by the Federal Government specifically to commercialise the research he has been undertaking for the past 10 years.
 
Professor Foster works in the field of nanotechnology where he has developed Arise, a process for generating nanoscale medicines and medical devices.
 
The article in its entirety can be found here, or in the October 21st edition of the Daily Telegraph.
 
Professor Foster wins ExxonMobil Award
Professor Neil Foster was honoured at the recent 2008 Awards of Excellence, given by the Australian and New Zealand Federation of Chemical Engineers. Professor Foster, who last year was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) won the ExxonMobil Award, which is given for significant ongoing contributions to Chemical Engineering through innovations or a series of related publications over a number of years.
Professor Foster has distinguished himself worldwide with his research in the areas of dense gas technology and gas-expanded liquid technology, including supercritical fluids. His work has led to new methods for inhalable drug delivery.
"We have pretty much pioneered using supercritical fluids for drug delivery," Professor Foster said."This award is one of the big ones and I was really as pleased as punch about it."
 
Professor Amal, who is the Head of UNSW's  Particles and Catalysis Research Group and Director of the Centre for Energy Research and Policy Analysis (CERPA), won the Freehills Award, which recognises innovation in product design or development.
 
 
August 2008:
 
Dr Angela Barrett (left), Professor Foster (middle), Emeritus Professor Wainwright (right)
Two articles in  UNSW ENGINEERS  ISSUE 17  (engineering magazine)  about SCF Group
  1. Handing along the baton (pg6): Emeritus Professor Mark Wainwright, Professor Neil R. Foster (Professor Wainwright's first student) and Dr. Angela Barrett (Professor Foster's student) all attended the April 2008 graduation ceremony. Professor Foster received a Doctor of Science for his thesis "Supercritical Fluids & Dense Gas Technologies: Fundamentals, Process Development & Applications" and Dr. Barrett received a 2008 UNSW Alumni Association Graduand Award and a PhD for her thesis "Processing Pharmaceuticals using Dense Gas Technology".
  2. Making smarter drugs (pg10): Details about Professor Foster and the SCF group's work on improving the efficiency of pharmaceutical drug delivery. According to Professor Foster, "we wanted something useful, viable, and with a commercially relevant endpoint."
 
 
 
 
July 2008:
 
  • Dr. Roderick Sih attained his PhD for his thesis entitled "New process development of dense gas technology for the processing of pharmaceuticals" His thesis can be found in electronic form on the UNSW Library website.
 May 2008:
 
 
April 2008:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  • Professor Neil R. Foster (left) and Jane Beh (right) received a Doctor of Science and Bachelors of Chemical Engineering respectively, at the UNSW convocation ceremony
 
  • Professor Mark Wainwright (right) gave a speech in honour of Professor Foster (left) receiving the Doctor of Science at the convocation ceremony.
 
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