There has been national and international coverage of Dr Roger Yazbek’s development of a potential breath test for some forms of cancer in radio, print, television and online news, while Professor Damien Keating’s use of Down Syndrome genes to help in identifying a single gene that may be reponsible for diabetes has also been widely covered.

Australian Industrial Transformation Institute director Professor John Spoehr’s predictions of the economic and employment effects on Whyalla and South Australia of the closure of steel-maker Arrium received extensive radio, television and newspaper coverage.

Associate Professor Karen Burke da Silva (Biological Sciences) is co-organiser of a campaign to protect wild stocks of clownfish (see the separate FIT entry) that is continuing to generate media attention within Australia and overseas.