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Radium Capital unleashes $400m war chest for Aussie innovators

Posted: 13 June 2025 Radium Capital, Australia’s leader in R&D finance, has announced plans to lend $400 million to Australian innovators over the next 12 months.  Radium Capital has deployed more than $900 million to companies undertaking research…

Telix Launches New Prostate Cancer Imaging Agent in U.S.

Posted: 13 June 2025 Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited announced that its next-generation PSMA-PET imaging agent for prostate cancer, Gozellix® (kit for the preparation of gallium-68 (68Ga) gozetotide injection), had become commercially available nationwide in the United States (U.S.). Kevin…

Chimeric Therapeutics Receives $2.5 Million Advance on FY25 R&D Tax Incentive

Posted: 12 June 2025 Chimeric Therapeutics Limited (ASX:CHM), an Australian leader in cell therapy, announced the receipt of $2,500,000 from Endpoints Capital under a funding facility secured against the anticipated FY25 Research and Development Tax Incentive (RDTI). The…

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Announces Promising Prostate Cancer Therapy Results

Posted: 11 June 2025 Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre revealed highly encouraging initial results from its groundbreaking Terbium-161 prostate cancer therapy. The findings were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2025 Annual Meeting in Chicago and…

Chimeric Therapeutics’ CHM CDH17 Granted FDA Fast Track Designation

Posted: 10 June 2025 Chimeric Therapeutics (ASX:CHM) announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had granted Fast Track Designation to CHM CDH17. This designation was based on the FDA’s assessment of CHM CDH17’s potential to improve…

La Trobe University unveils AI Supercomputer for medical innovation

Posted: 4 June 2025 La Trobe University has “switched on” Australia’s first AI-powered medical innovation centre with NVIDIA DGX H200 systems. This has marked a major step in AI-driven medical and biotech research. Vice-Chancellor Professor Theo Farrell said,…

INOVIQ announces early ovarian cancer screening breakthrough

Posted: 4 June 2025 INOVIQ Limited announced groundbreaking results from its EXO-OC™ ovarian cancer test at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting on June 1, 2025, in Chicago. The test achieved 77% sensitivity and 99.6%…

Cartherics to Present at the 2025 BIO International Convention

Posted: 2 June 2025 BioMelbourne Network is pleased to share that one of our valued members Cartherics Pty Ltd, will present at the upcoming 2025 BIO International Convention June 16-19 2025, in Boston Massachusetts. Catherics Chief Operating Officer,…

Spotlight on how lung cell mapping can help prevent respiratory pandemics

Posted: 28 May 2025 The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the urgent need for better understanding of how viruses interact with our lungs. That’s the focus of the Doherty Institute’s Associate Professor Ash Haque and his team’s work: using a…

Brandon Capital opens second funding round for its Cureator Incubator program

Posted: 26 May 2025 Brandon Capital has opened the second funding round for its Cureator Dementia and Cognitive Decline incubator program with up to $5 million for each project. The CUREator+ Dementia and Cognitive Decline incubator program is…

Connection, courage and change: Inside the 2025 BioMelbourne Network Connecting Women Lunch

More than 600 people filled the Grand Ballroom of the Sofitel Melbourne on Collins for BioMelbourne Network’s highly anticipated 2025 Connecting Women Lunch – a flagship celebration of women and people identifying as women across our health technology…

Federal Grant Boosts Dementia Research at Monash University

Posted: 13th May 2025 Monash University received $953,751 from the Federal Government’s Medical Research Future Fund to study human brain cells for potential dementia treatments. This grant enabled the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences to “light up” human…

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