11. Professor Mark Kendall: Team Brisbane

Brisbane scientist Professor Mark Kendall and his team invented the Nanopatch. Photo: Jeremy Patten/ University of Queensland

It's the Brisbane invention that has the potential to save millions of lives across the globe.

But while Professor Mark Kendall of the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology is the public face of the revolutionary Nanopatch, it has taken a vast team of researchers from a range of disciplines to bring the groundbreaking vaccination technology to fruition.

Professor Kendall's invention, which has been a decade in development, has been heralded a vaccine utopia.

A microscopic view of the nanopatch. Photo: Jeremy Patten/ University of Queensland

Nanopatch is a needle-less strip smaller than a postage stamp that has thousands of microscopic points that can inject a vaccine into the skin.

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The technology eliminates the requirement for needles, as well as the need to refrigerate vaccines, which reduces the implementation cost from $50 to just 50 cents.

It also requires a much smaller dosage than needle delivery.

The Nanopatch has thousands of microscopic points, which can inject disease-breaking vaccines into the skin. Photo: Jeremy Patten/ University of Queensland

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11. Professor Mark Kendall: Team Brisbane