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Securing The Future Of Regenerative Medicine In Victoria

Date posted: 18 August 2020 Release date: 10 August 2020 The Victorian Government is growing the state’s world-leading medical research sector, securing the retention of the national headquarters of the Centre for Commercialisation of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) Australia. CCRM speeds up…

MTPConnect’s REDI Initiative Partners With APR.Intern

18 August 2020 A new funding partnership between APR.Intern and MTPConnect will increase workforce capabilities and strengthen research translation within Australia’s medtech, biotech and pharmaceutical sector. Under the agreement, MTPConnect’s REDI initiative will provide 20 businesses in the medtech,…

Starpharma signs new DEP® partnership with Chase Sun

17 August 2020 Starpharma today announced that it has signed a new research partnership with leading Chinese Pharmaceutical company Tianjin Chase Sun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd[1]. (stock code 300026; Chase Sun), to develop several DEP® nanoparticle formulations for an anti-infective…

AAMRI OIS Report 2020 – Highlights from 12 Victorian Independent Medical Research Institutes

17 August 2020 Release date: 14 August 2020 The AAMRI Operational Infrastructure Support (OIS) Program is essential to the 12 Victorian  independent medical research institutes it supports. In 2018–2019 the Victorian Government provided $34.5M to these institutes to cover…

Australia leads on elimination of global cervical cancer

14 August 2020 Release Date: 12 August 2020 Australia has led the way by sponsoring a resolution at the most recent World Health Assembly calling for World Health Organization (WHO) Member States to adopt the WHO Global Strategy:…

$2 million project to transform University of Melbourne’s Dookie Agricultural College

13 August 2020 Upgrades will be made to the University of Melbourne’s Dookie campus thanks to a $2 million funding boost announced today by the Minister for Training and Skills and Higher Education Gayle Tierney. The funding will…

Bionics Institute welcomes Dr Sherryl Wagstaff to Board

13 August 2020 Dr Sherryl Wagstaff (MBBS, FRACS MBA (MBS) GAICD), an ear-nose-and-throat (ENT) specialist and Medical Director at Epworth Eastern Hospital recently joined the Board of the Bionics Institute. Dr Wagstaff has been working with the Bionics…

CSIRO sets sights on new ‘Team Australia’ missions program

13 August 2020 CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, will work with the government, universities, industry and the community, on a new missions program to bolster Australia’s COVID-19 recovery and build long term resilience. The program of large scale,…

COVID-19 vaccine and treatment manufacture and supply chain RFI

11 August 2020 Close date: 20 August 2020 In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian Government is working to seek early access to and delivery of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines and treatments as soon as they…

Independent publication strengthens case for Noxopharm’s Veyonda® as a safe and possibly life-prolonging treatment in late- stage prostate cancer

11 August 2020 Australian clinical-stage drug development company Noxopharm Limited (ASX:NOX) is pleased to announce the publication of the first manuscript of the LuPIN trial in the journal, European Urology Oncology. This journal is the first official publication…

Sienna Cancer Diagnostics Ltd (Sienna) becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of BARD1 Life Sciences Ltd

10 August 2020 Release date: 4 August 2020 Dear Valued Stakeholders, We are pleased to inform you that on 28 July 2020, Sienna Cancer Diagnostics Ltd (Sienna) became a wholly owned subsidiary of BARD1 Life Sciences Ltd (BARD1…

Atmo Biosciences wins $620K grant to advance commercialization of ingestible gas-sensing capsule to diagnose gut disorders

6 August 2020 Release date: 20 July 2020   Atmo Biosciences has been awarded a $620,000 Australian Government grant through the BioMedTech Horizons (BMTH) program. Delivered by MTPConnect and funded by the Medical Research Future Fund, the BMTH program supports the…

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