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Dr Cameron Jones from the Swinburne University of Technology in Victoria, Australia, for Creative Scientific solutions and developments.

Dr Jones is a mathematical research scientist, microbiologist, and nightclub co-owner/DJ, who discovered in 2003 that growing penicillin on CDs dramatically altered the sound of the music on them. Since then, Dr Jones has developed a computer program to read images of substances baked into a CD-ROM surface using an ordinary CD-ROM drive, creating a relatively cheap and quick way of determining whether an unknown substance could be anthrax.

You can read more about the concepts here and here.

An intraocular retinal prosthetic implant is being developed by Dr Mark Humayun at the Doheny Eye Institute in California, with the aim of eventually replacing the damaged retinal cells of sufferers of retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration. The device is implanted in the retina and converts images into electrical pulses which can be picked up by the nerve cells in the eye, and translated by the brain. Humayun was inspired to think of the eye in terms of electrical circuitry and find ways to bypass blindness.

Dr Humayun is a professor of ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine and associate director of research at the Doheny Eye Institute at the University of Southern California.

Read more about this research here.

Earle Dickson invented the ready-made stick-on bandage for his accident prone wife Josephine. He pre-made the bandages, placing squares of gauze along a roll of adhesive surgical tape. Now all his wife needed to do was cut off a piece of the sticky bandage and she could dress her injury quickly and easily.

The company Cochlear, for the development of the Cochlear auditory canel implant that has enabled many deaf or partially deaf people to regain some sound. It works as a surgical implant that bypasses the damaged section of the ear.

More info here and here.

Ventracor is developing a surgically implanted pump called VentrAssist, designed to assist a damaged heart in pumping blood effectively.

More info here