Project Manager Commercialisation

Life Sciences
Miss Jane Malden

Jane graduated from UWA in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in Soil Science and Plant Nutrition and Chemistry. Since graduating Jane has held roles focusing on plant nutrition and adaptation; firstly focussed on mine site revegetation research with the Environmental Research Institute of the Supervising Scientist, Jabiru NT and secondly with UWA working on an alternative grain legume adaptation project with the very successful and industry focussed Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture and Center for Rhizobium Studies based at Murdoch University.

Following this good grounding in research Jane moved to Milne AgriGroup, a Western Australian based, vertically integrated agribusiness, where she was responsible for the Quality Assurance and Food Safety systems within the broad acre operations, stock feed manufacturing, poultry and piggery production and food related aspects of the business.  Jane has most recently returned from Melbourne, during which time she was part of the Wheat Product Development team at AWB, a role focussed on product development, R&D (collaboration with domestic and international customers), market trends, wheat quality evaluation and the classification of new wheat varieties.

Jane is currently responsible for commercialising life sciences intellectual property through licensing opportunities, start-ups and joint ventures.

Contact Details:
Office of Industry and Innovation
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Hwy Crawley Western Australia 6009 

Tel: (61 8 ) 6488 1520
Fax: (61 8) 6488 2333

E-mail:  jmalden@admin.uwa.edu.au