ASSOCIATE Professor Michelle McIntosh from the Monash University Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has been jointly awarded the Dr John Dixon Hughes Medal for Medical Research Innovation by the National Foundation for Medical Research and Innovation.
McIntosh (pictured) receives a $50,000 research grant, with the Foundation recognising her development of an inhalable form of oxytocin, to prevent postpartum haemorrhage in women from resource-poor settings.
Also honoured was Professor Mark Kendall from the University of Queensland, for his successes with the Vaxxas nanopatch vaccine delivery system.
The Medal is awarded every two years to a researcher under the age of 45, for "outstanding contribution towards the development and advancement of a biomedical innovation related to the nature, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and incidence of disease and other health problems that have a significant impact on the health of humans".
This year the Foundation's research advisory committee felt it was impossible to decide between the last two finalists, and hence the Board made the decision to award two medals.
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