Professor Justin Gooding, Professor Katharina Gaus and Dr Peter Reece from UNSW are finalists in the 2014 University of New South Wales Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research.

Professor Gooding’s team of chemists, physicists and cell biologists has developed an optical device that can monitor the activity of a single living cell, with wide-ranging applications in drug discovery, toxin detection and personalised medicine. The team’s work is making the next generation of cell-based diagnostic devices our present, not our future.

See more at australianmuseum.net.au/2014-Finalists-Eureka.