24 April 2020 The Morrison Government’s historic $130 billion JobKeeper payment will support millions of Australian jobs and help cushion the blow from the severe economic impact from the coronavirus. The $1,500 per fortnight JobKeeper payment is the…
23 April 2020 Ensuring Australian hospitals are able to respond rapidly in the event of increased patient demand during the COVID-19 health emergency is a national priority. Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, announced the Australian Government has funded…
22 April 2020 RMIT fashion and textiles experts have designed a new style of protective face mask for healthcare workers. The staff and student team has sewn 100 of the prototype masks as part of a Federal Government…
23 April 2020 Immutep Limited, a biotechnology company developing novel immunotherapy treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases, announced that the last patient has been enrolled and safely dosed for the second cohort of the INSIGHT-004 Phase I clinical…
23 April 2020 PolyNovo is pleased to announce the first use of NovoSorb BTM in Canada. This case was initiated by one of Canada’s leading surgeons who is a key opinion leader in this field. PolyNovo has not…
21 April 2020 PolyNovo is pleased to share the summary of results for the CP-002 Feasibility Study to assess the safety and effectiveness of NovoSorb® Biodegradable Temporizing Matrix (BTM) in the treatment of severe skin burn injuries. This…
23 April 2020 Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD), Kite, a Gilead Company, and oNKo-innate announced the companies have entered into a three-year cancer immunotherapy research collaboration to support discovery and development of next-generation drug and engineered cell therapies…
22 April 2020 Melbourne, Australia and Seoul, South Korea: VivaZome Therapeutics Pty Ltd (“VivaZome”) and ToolGen, Inc (“ToolGen”) have announced the extension of a collaborative research project exploring the gene-editing of cells for enhanced exosome production. Under the…
21 April 2020 Bosch Australia’s Manufacturing Solutions division (BAMS) has been awarded a AUD $1 million project as part of the industry consortium to build ventilators in Victoria. The notus Emergency Invasive Ventilator Program, a Grey Innovation led…
21 April 2020 A clinical trial aimed at testing the effectiveness and safety of two existing drugs in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 has opened at the first site, The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Led by Associate Professor Steven Tong, a Royal…
20 April 2020 The Victorian Government has released modelling to provide greater understanding of the spread of coronavirus in Victoria. The modelling, done by Victoria’s epidemiological experts at the Department of Health and Human Services and in collaboration…
21 April 2020 Medical technology company Sienna Cancer Diagnostics has partnered with The University of Adelaide in an exclusive worldwide licencing agreement to develop a unique cancer probe with the potential to detect a sugar molecule only present…