Weekly COVID1-19 Wrap Up – Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business
9 April 2020 Note: This COVID-19 information was curated by Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, Senator for Western Australia. JOBKEEPER LEGISLATION NOW LAW Yesterday marked one of the most important…
Entrepreneur Programme gets $110m revamp
9 April 2020 James Riley, Editorial Director – InnovationAus. In a massive revamp of its flagship Entrepreneurs Programme, the Industry department has awarded four tender contracts worth a combined $110 million for delivering the program’s commercial outcomes. The contracts…
Building capacity in clinical research during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia
9 April 2020 ARCS Australia is coordinating a call for qualified volunteers who are willing to be called upon/volunteer in case of potential staff shortages to assist with the support of current clinical trials and any new COVID-19…
Seeking knowledge and expertise to tackle COVID-19
9 April 2020 A new database designed to make it easier for Australian experts to contribute to tackling COVID-19 has been launched, championed by Australia’s Chief Scientist, Dr Alan Finkel. An initiative of the Learned Academies of Australia,…
AMGC COVID-19 Manufacturer Response Register
9 April 2020 The Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre have created a register seeking expressions of interest from Australian manufacturers and others looking to assist with supply of goods, services or knowledge during the current COVID-19 outbreak. Visit the…
Doherty Institute release COVID-19 modelling papers
7 April 2020 Doherty Institute researchers have released their work on COVID-19 modelling to the general public. These models have been utilised by the Commonwealth Government in the public health response to COVID-19. It’s important to note the modelling is…
Call for Australian manufacturers to supply COVID-19 test kit components
6 April 2020 Are you an Australian manufacturer with the capability to produce inputs for COVID-19 RNA extraction? Do you have support to scale up your production? We want to hear from you. Securing Australia’s COVID-19 testing capacity…
Possible coronavirus drug identified by Monash University scientists
3 April 2020 A collaborative study led by the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) with the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute), a joint venture of the University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital, has shown that…
Where are we at with developing a vaccine for coronavirus?
3 April 2020 This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Shutterstock Kylie Quinn, RMIT University and Damian Purcell, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity SARS-CoV-2, the virus…
CSIRO begins testing COVID-19 vaccines
2 April 2020 CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has commenced the first stage of testing potential vaccines for COVID-19. The testing, expected to take three months, is underway at CSIRO’s high-containment biosecurity facility, the Australian Animal Health Laboratory…
Impact of COVID-19 on Product Development: Information and Resource from Halloran
2 April 2020 Read the full statement from Halloran here. Halloran has formed a company-wide task force to curate information on the impact to the life science industry due to the current COVID-19 environment. We are leveraging our…
The Pratt Foundation commits $1 million to support clinical trials for COVID-19 treatments
31 March 2020 The Doherty Institute has welcomed a generous commitment of $1 million from Anthony Pratt and The Pratt Foundation, which will be directed towards the Australasian COVID-19 Trial (ASCOT). Led by the Royal Melbourne Hospital’s infectious…
