Cristian Zaelzer-Pérez

Makings of a Malignancy is a world-first, portable, cancer biology-themed puzzle room. Using an escape room as a unique and innovative platform, we’re explaining the complexities of cancer through an immersive experience. Highlighting prevention messaging and modern therapeutic challenges, we’ve exhibited to various audiences throughout Australia. In early 2020, we…

PRESENTED BY Andreas Schmidt NOMINATED BY National University of Singapore Tags: Cancer, Proteogenomics, Healthcare, Precision Medicine, Single Cell Analysis

Carried out over 10 years by artist-economist duo Chow and Lin, The Poverty Line visually documents the type and amount of food a person living by the poverty line can buy per day in different case-study Countries. The photographic study is based on data analysis and socio-economic research on lowest-income…

We have developed a novel therapeutic for SARS-CoV-2 that relies on nanobodies – antibody fragments from alpacas and llamas. Combining protein engineering, structural biology, and virology, we found that multi-component molecules binding the virus on two surfaces lead to robust neutralization of wildtype virus and newly emerging variants. Unlike most…

The nominating institution Nanyang Technological University on the breakthrough: Significant progress has been made in developing bioinspired sensors and actuators based on synthetic materials, although there remains a critical need to incorporate cost-effective and ecofriendly materials. Naturally abundant pollen grains were used as a material template to produce a paper-like…

The nominating institute Nanyang Technological University on the breakthrough: Infectious agents, including viruses like SARS-CoV-2, can wreak havoc on societies. Frequent testing is essential to minimise their transmission. However, viruses can mutate, edit, or shuffle their genetic material, causing diagnostic assays to fail. To overcome the problem, Meng How Tan…

MYRIAD engaged young people, schools and families with the shrouded mystery of the teenage mind. Using a hybrid of approaches from inspiration to collaboration right through to a digital campaign, people got to step inside and explore an inflatable brain, to design research and ask the questions that are most…

ImBlaze enables schools to offer equitable access to social capital & real world learning at scale. ImBlaze is an EdTech platform built by Big Picture Learning, with the mission of disrupting traditional secondary education to allow for the adoption of real world learning as a core part of school. ImBlaze…

How Polar Exploration Propels Climate Research To New Levels Over the past years international teams of scientists have been undertaking fundamental on-the-ground research in the planet’s polar regions to document the changes that are occurring and gain a better understanding of global climate change. A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…

The challenge International development has traditionally followed a top-down approach to technological development and community empowerment interventions for people staying in rural communities. This approach has led to many human, technological and economic development challenges rather than solutions for rural communities, marginalised communities, and underdeveloped populations of the developing world…