Dated Posted – 20 May 2021 The country’s innovation giants say tax breaks for profits generated on local intellectual property will nurture high-value, local jobs and foster new companies, despite Australia still offering significantly weaker incentives than countries…
Date Posted – 12 May 2021 From our CEO, Jeff Malone GAICD on the new budget… This new budget outlines a number of very welcome initiatives including continued and consistent support for the R&D tax incentive and investment into Biotech…
Date Posted – 13 May 2021 A leading South Australian immunologist has been awarded $3 million from the Federal Government to accelerate work on a locally developed Covid-19 vaccine, in what’s anticipated to be the second line of…
Date Posted – 21 April 2021 The Victorian government is providing $50 million to “kickstart” domestic manufacturing of mRNA vaccine technology. It will take at least 12 months for any of the vaccines to be made in Australia,…
Date Posted – 8 April 2021 The first Gamma Knife to be installed in Victoria, at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, is now fully operational, with the first patients to receive the non-invasive radiosurgery sharing their experiences. The Gamma…
Date Posted – 26 March 2021 Date Published – 22 March 2021 First needle-free DNA-based COVID-19 candidate vaccine to be tested in Australia in a phase 1 trial in healthy subjects aged 18 to 75 years old •…
Date Posted – 25 March 2021 The relaxation of COVID settings this week reinforces the need for good record keeping. The Victorian Government announced on Tuesday that the 75 per cent cap on office workers will be removed…
Date Posted – 23 March 2021 Written by – Karl Luke and Bridget Nunn There has been significant press around the government’s agenda to reform large parts of the Fair Work regime, most of which failed in the Senate.…
Date Posted – 19 March 2021 Article Written – 18 March 2021 Written by Patrick Durkin, BOSS Deputy Editor Former Victorian Premier John Brumby will lead a new $2 billion research fund to turn good ideas into businesses…
Date Posted – 17 March 2021 By Emma Koehn Sydney Morning Herald A Brisbane startup says it can make the active ingredients for the new generation of mRNA vaccines in Australia, but more government funding and training support are…
Date posted – 4 March 2021 The 2021 QS World University Rankings by Subject, released today, ranked Monash University number two in the world for Pharmacy and Pharmacology for the second year running. Pharmacy and Pharmacology remains Monash’s…
Posted 12 November 2020 This is a BioMelbourne Network Good News Story – click here to find out more and submit yours. In a rare achievement for the Australian biotechnology industry, a new potential cancer therapy developed in…