Bridge to MassChallenge open for applications
Applications are now open until September 20th, for an Australia-wide startup competition targeting the highest-impact, highest-potential entrepreneurs. The competition will bring together international judges and collaborate with Australian ecosystem leaders to identify the top startups. Finalists will receive…
Accelerating Commercialisation – Entrepreneurs’ Programme August Funding Offers
The Turnbull Government today announced that twenty businesses across Australia will be offered $11.3 million in Entrepreneurs’ Programme grants to help them break into new and international markets.A 3-D printed jaw joint replacement, termite-proof building materials and a…
Melbourne based Planet innovation tops the AFR 50 Most Innovative Companies 2016 list
Every year millions of people die or become gravely ill from infectious diseases such as influenza, HIV, Chlamydia and Zika virus. Currently, 80 per cent of all tests for infectious diseases involve taking a patient sample and sending…
Minister announces details of Biomedical Translation Fund
Innovation Minister Greg Hunt and Health Minister Sussan Ley have announced the details of the $500 million Biomedical Translation Fund (BTF), including the guidelines. In a joint statement with Health Minister Sussan Ley, Mr Hunt said the Government’s…
Big step towards cure for lifelong viral infections
New research has taken us a step closer to finding a cure for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), as well as other infections including the glandular fever virus, which is associated with the development of lymphoma. Some infections, such…
Gordagen Receives AUD$1.3M R&D Tax Incentive
Gordagen Pharmaceuticals, a private Australian company developing biopharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals based on the medicinal properties of tocotrienols, is pleased to announce it has received a Research and Development Tax Incentive Refund of AUD$1.3 million for the 2015/2016 financial…
Fight Club – A Personal Account of Immunotherapy Treatment in Melbourne
A personal journey illustrating the potential benefits of immunotherapy and also featuring several leading oncology practitioners based in Melbourne When Steven Jones-Evans was diagnosed with bladder cancer, the prognosis was grim. His only hope was new – and expensive…
Stopping superbugs with a protective coat – CSIRO
Around the world 700,000 people die of drug resistant infections a year, and that figure could rise to 10 million a year by 2050. The resulting financial cost is predicted to reach $100 trillion USD. It’s a global problem…
AdAlta Ltd lists on the ASX
Melbourne-based company, and BioMelbourne Network Member, AdAlta Limited has listed on the ASX. AdAlta is a drug discovery and development company focused on using its powerful technology platform to generate a promising new class of protein therapeutics, known…
Australian protein discovery leads to tablet that “melts away blood cancer”
A potent anti-cancer treatment co-developed and trialled in Melbourne has been granted approval for use in patients by the powerful US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The announcement recognises that the drug, venetoclax, is a successful new therapy…
He makes 3D skull and bone implants but now he’s in pain
Melbourne neurosurgeon Paul d’Urso founded Anatomics 20 years ago to make customised 3D print cranial implants. With the advent of new, stronger materials such as powdered titanium Anatomics has expanded the range to load bearing spinal, heel and…
Medicinal cannabis startup LeafCann hopes to secure first Australian licence to establish trial crops in regional Victoria
Since Victoria has become the first Australian state to legalise the manufacture and supply of cannabis for medicinal and scientific purposes, cultivators have begun the lengthy process of securing an Australian licence. Chris Nasr is one such cultivator…
