2017 SA Science Excellence Award for LBT Innovations

LBT Innovations has been awarded the 2017 SA Science Excellence Award for Excellence in Research Collaboration.

The award recognises excellence in developing an intelligent medical device in South Australia and the collaboration between the University of Adelaide, Australian Centre for Visual Technologies and LBT Innovations.

Since the inception of the awards in 2005, the government of South Australia has recognised the efforts and achievements of more than 60 winners, many of whom are world leaders in their respective fields.

LBT Innovations CEO and Managing Director Brent Barnes said, “It’s fantastic to receive the acknowledgement of a successful research collaboration. Establishing an open innovation platform facilitates collaboration across multiple disciplines, starting with research to invent and create new technological capability. This, coupled with commercialisation partnerships are needed to ultimately ensure the final product generates returns for the company and our shareholders, which for LBT is critical.”

LBT has identified a significant unmet customer need within the clinical microbiology culture plate workflow, whereby manual processes were the norm, and specialist microbiologists continue to be difficult to find. Through LBT’s collaboration with computer scientists at the University of Adelaide’s Australian Centre for Visual Technologies (ACVT), LBT’s Automated Plate Assessment Systems (APAS) was invented.