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Industry Kickstarter Grant scheme
The Industry Kickstarter Grant scheme offers your agribusiness or SME the chance to collaborate with UQ academics on research with commercial impact.
By linking research with business, the 6-month grants are designed to help you find solutions to specific industry challenges.
The fourth and final round of the Industry Kickstarter Grant scheme has now closed.
| Partner | Project description | Project lead |
|---|---|---|
| Australian Wood Fibre | GelShroom Circularity: Tissue Paper Offcuts-based Gels as Alternative to Peat Casing Soils for Mushroom Cultivation | Dr Hima Haridevan |
| Austranna | Advanced Primary Production (Protected Cropping) Industry embedded research translation facility | Professor Neena Mitter |
| Bamboo Resource Group | Developing bamboo products and protecting them from mould | Dr Tyron Venn |
| Bondi Labs | Digital twin of agrifood (horticulture and meat) supply chains (genetics-customer) | Professor Ryan Ko |
| Bugs Alive | Microbial Safety and Nutritional Quality of Crickets (Achaeta domestica) | Dr Deirdre Mikkelsen |
| Canefields Distillery | Identifying heirloom sugarcane varieties with high sugar and unique flavour profiles | Dr Marlize Bekker |
| Cauldron Distillery and Winery | Decision support tools to support specialty smallholders and farm-gate producers | Dr Paul Melloy |
| Custard Apples Australia | Transforming propagation in Australia's custard apple industry | Dr Alice Hayward |
| Denning’s Topical Herbal and Natural Products | Nanotechnology-Enhanced Herbal Solutions for Pathogen Control | Dr Li Li |
| East Forged Party Ltd | Integrated multi-omics for quality control, scale-up, and spent leaf value-add in Cold Brew Tea production | Professor Benjamin Schulz |
| Empathy Herbal | Explore and Validate the Therapeutic Benefits of Australian Aged Black Garlic | Professor Susanne Schmidt |
| Gelita | Enhancing product development processes | Dr Heather Shewan |
| Green Valley Fingerlimes | Exploration into the optimal storage and processing from the point of harvest through the whole supply chain of whole and extracted pearls of Australian native fingerlimes | Dr Joseph Nastasi |
| Hab Shifa | Black cumin (Nigella sativa L.) and its effects on poultry production and health | Dr Elham Assadi Soumeh |
| Limpinwood Botanic Gardens & Nursery | Bio-activity of two Australian aromatic plants | Dr Alice Hayward |
| Little Acre Gourmet Mushrooms | Increasing the production yield and quality of mushrooms | Associate Professor Nidhi Bansal |
My Dilly Bag | Designing a seed nursery for an Indigenous community-based supply chain for Warrigal Greens | Dr Nicole Robinson |
| Native Extracts | The anti-inflammatory characterisation of unique native plant extracts | Associate Professor Peter Cabot |
| Nindooinbah | Elite embryo identification platform for high value supply chains and herd recovery | Professor Ben Hayes |
| Peirsons Farms | Integrated Pathways at Kepnok (IP@K) | Dane Ivicevic |
| Queensland Trust for Nature | Development of bio-derived and biodegradable tree guard prototypes for a sustainable plastics future | Dr Clement Chan |
| Reclaim Foods | Enhancing nutritional value of surplus bananas for health and aged care sectors | Associate Professor Nidhi Bansal |
| Scenic Rim Mushrooms | Solving the problem of single-use plastics in commercial mushroom farming | Dr Nasim Amiralian |
| SeaO2 Algae | Utilising commercial microalgae production current byproducts | Dr Peter Dart |
| SoiLife | Customised microbial biofertilisers for Australian farms | Professor Susanne Schmidt |
| Summerland Camels | Improving yield during processing of camel milk into cheese | Associate Professor Nidhi Bansal |
| Ugly Duck Fine Foods | Evaluating the viability and quality of mayonnaise produced using pullet eggs: A comparative analysis with mature hen eggs | Dr Sangeeta Prakash |
| Uuvipak | Improving the functional properties of citrus peels as bioplastic | Dr Vassilis Kontogiorgos |
| Williams Citrus | Identifying the desirable flavour, aroma, and sensory profiles of five novel Australian native lime hybrids | Dr Marlize Bekker |
| Work Eco | Weeds to pellets - A scoping study on the potential of environmental weeds as biomass feedstock in Queensland | Associate Professor Sudhir Yadav |
| Working Title Brew Co | The evolution and role of wild Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. diastaticus in beer gushing | Professor Ben Schulz |