Winner of the 2016 Most Valuable Women in Leadership Award:

Professor Sally McArthur, Director of the Innovation Precinct – Swinburne Institute of Technology

Sally McArthur is the Director of the Innovation Precinct at Swinburne University of Technology. The precinct is a whole of university initiative focused on technology innovation and entrepreneurship through collaboration between students, staff, mentors, industry, strategic partners.

As an academic in Biomedical and Materials Engineering Sally has obtained approximately $16M in funding, including the $1.8M ARC Industrial Transformational Training Centre in Biodevices launched at Swinburne in March 2015. The centre links industry and academia to create a new generation of entrepreneurial, innovative and internationally connected graduates capable of driving the medical and manufacturing sectors forward.

Sally’s personal research couples materials, surface engineering, physical science, analytical chemistry and biochemistry. Her research spans medical, environmental, food and manufacturing technology sectors. Sally’s group hosts the Australian National Fabrication Facility Victoria (ANFF-Vic) Biointerface Engineering Hub, an open access facility for academic and industry researchers supporting the connection of biology with technology.On the biotech/medtech community in Melbourne:“Melbourne has such an exciting and supportive biotech and medtech community. The Bioreactor program reflects that people are willing to take a risk on something new. It is all about radical dialogues with critical friends.”

On the biotech/medtech/pharma community in Melbourne:    

“Melbourne has such an exciting and supportive biotech and medtech community. The Bioreactor program reflects that people are willing to take a risk on something new. It is all about radical dialogues with critical friends.”

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