#Health and Wellbeing

The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet book on display

CSIRO Medals 2005 – Business Excellence Medal – Total Wellbeing Diet publication team

Manny Noakes, Dr Peter Clifton and colleagues (CSIRO Health Sciences and Nutrition). For the publication of the CSIRO Total Wellbeing […]

CSIRO Medals 2005 – Research achievement – Novosorb team

Pathiraja (Thilak) Gunatillake and colleagues (CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies). For the development of the novel family of biodegradable polymers for advanced biomedical and tissue engineering applications.

CSIRO Medals 2002 – Business Excellence Medal – Extended Wear Key Account Team

Gordon Meijs, and colleagues (CSIRO Molecular Science). For nurturing the business relationship between CSIRO, the University of New South Wales […]

Terry Turney and colleague in laboratory

CSIRO Medals 2002 – Research achievement – Nanocomposites Team

Terry Turney and the Nanocomposites Team (CSIRO Materials Science). For leading Australian manufacturing industry into the nanotechnology age.

Bottle of Waria Waria oil displayed on bed of Waria Waria leaves

Essential Oils (2002)

Medicinal oil from the Waria Waria tree is providing villagers in Papua New Guinea with their only source of income.

Close up view of woman inserting contact lens.

Contact lenses that breathe (2000)

New contact lenses that breathe mean that you can leave them in not just for a day, but a whole […]

Flu Cure (1999)

After years of research and testing, there's finally a drug that can attack the influenza virus. These sneezes and snuffles […]

Researchers with swatches of processed wool samples.

CSIRO Medals 1998 – Chairman’s Medal – Dr David Phillips and the OPTIM team

David Phillips and colleagues (CSIRO Wool Technology). For the development of the OPTIM™ fibre process for the generation of innovative new wool fibres.

I can see through you (1998)

A new X-ray technique that can produce much more detailed and sharper pictures. A hundred years ago, when Wilhelm Conrad […]