Opinion: It’s time for a worldwide moratorium on editing human embryos
by Alan Trounson[1] Posted 2 April 2019 Hear Alan Trounson discuss the issue Saturday 6 April at 12 noon on ABC Radio National’s The Science Show. A few weeks ago, 18 scientists from seven countries took me back…
MedTech Actuator Accelerator (September 2019 intake)
Sep 1 – Nov 30 | Melbourne VIC, Australia http://www.medtechactuator.com APPLY BY MAY 3 Actuator Accelerator Australia’s National Medtech Accelerator About this Program Utilising a 15-month focused industry-led curriculum, The MedTech Actuator Accelerator Program takes Seed ventures to…
Melbourne’s Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre to be home of ‘the next great wave in treatment’
25 March 2019 A new form of cancer treatment that uses cell therapy to attack the disease will become available in Australia, after the Federal Government announced $80 million towards a facility in Melbourne. Key points: Health Minister…
Federal budget cash to put Melbourne at medicine’s cutting edge
25 March 2019 A $30 million cash injection to Melbourne’s ground-breaking bio-medical research centre will keep the city at the global cutting edge of medical technology, according to Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Next month’s federal budget will commit…
Loud and clear: Australian start-ups changing the hearing game
25 March 2019 For Dr Kate Lomas and Dr Liz Williams, understanding insect ears is the key to unlocking a billion-dollar industry. “We really see this as a dramatically improved treatment for profoundly deaf patients, and we’re aiming…
Johnson & Johnson joins forces with Monash University-led partnership to advance novel technology aimed at saving lives of women in child birth
21 March 2019 | The biggest cause of pregnancy-related death in resource-limited settings is excessive blood loss after birth, a condition effectively managed in developed countries with injectable oxytocin administered by trained personnel. A novel form of oxytocin,…
GSK puts Australian researchers on Discovery Fast Track
GSK will provide access to its expertise in research, platform technologies and compounds to researchers from Monash University and the University of South Australia. Collaboration between academia and industry through joint research teams to help accelerate discovery of…
Australia is handicapped in the delivery of cell therapies, says Alan Trounson
20 March 2019 THE promise is remarkable: a new class of affordable, effective cancer treatments beyond surgery, chemotherapy, biologicals and radiation. Imagine cancer specialists being able to select from a range of treatments to supercharge a patient’s immune…
Austin Health ID to join the Doherty Institute
18 March 2019 | Announcement from Professor Sharon Lewin, Director, Doherty Insititute: I am thrilled to announce that Austin Health’s Infectious Diseases Department (Austin Health ID) is joining the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute)…
The Global Health Alliance Welcomes Labor’s Pacific Avoidable Blindness and Vision Loss Fund
14 March 2018 The Senator Hon Penny Wong announced that if elected, a Labor Government will invest $32 million in a Pacific Avoidable Blindness and Vision Loss Fund. “At a time when Australia’s focus is returning to the…
New space for Outerspace Melbourne
8 March 2019 | Outerspace Melbourne has settled in the new makerspace in Abbotsford, a short drive from the old studio. The team enjoyed designing the “clean slate” space and making it their own, with an open layout…
Immutep presents positive IMP761 preclinical results
8 March 2019 | Immutep today announced positive results from its preclinical study of IMP761, a novel LAG3 agonist antibody being developed for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. The results were presented at the 14th Congress of European…
