2024 Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation
Posted: 9 October 2024 Cytopia’s Professor Andrew F Wilks and Dr Chris Burns received the 2024 Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation. The prize recognises their outstanding contribution to drug discovery and development in Australia. Prof Wilks and Dr Burns…
Immutep Completes Patient Enrolment in Randomised Phase II of AIPAC-003 Trial in Metastatic Breast Cancer
Posted: 8 October 2024 Immutep Limited (ASX: IMM; NASDAQ: IMMP) (“Immutep” or “the Company”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel LAG-3 immunotherapies for cancer and autoimmune disease, today announces patient enrolment has been completed in the randomised Phase…
New drug could be answer to an overlooked yet devastating type of dementia
Posted: 8 October 2024 Monash University researchers are assessing a new drug that could be a game changer for the dementia that has struck US actor Bruce Willis, and countless others as young as 35: behavioural variant frontotemporal…
World first: Australian scientists uncover “plant-like” behaviour in important human cell regulator, opening up a new drug target for cancer, other diseases
Posted: 8 October 2024 A team of scientists from Monash University has solved the structure of a protein known as ‘LYCHOS’, which can detect and regulate cell growth by sensing cholesterol levels in the body. Human cells need…
Cartherics raises over $15 Million in oversubscribed private financing round to advance cell therapy programs
Posted: 2 October 2024 Cartherics Pty Ltd (“Cartherics” or “Company”), a biotechnology company developing immune cell therapies for the treatment of cancer and other diseases, is pleased to announce that it has successfully raised well over its target AU$15M…
First human vagus nerve recordings pinpoint cardiovascular signals
Posted: 2 October 2024 The team that first recorded vagus nerve signals in humans has isolated the electrical activity of individual neurones responsible for cardiovascular regulation. Published in The Journal of Physiology, the Monash University-led discovery paves the way…
Professor Emma Johnston AO appointed new Vice-Chancellor
Posted: 2 October 2024 University of Melbourne Chancellor, Jane Hansen AO, today announced the appointment of Professor Emma Johnston AO as the 21st Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. Professor Johnston is the first woman to be appointed…
$50 million for transformative multidisciplinary health and medical research
Posted: 2 October 2024 Ten outstanding and versatile research teams have collectively been awarded $50 million to support them in working together to address major problems in human health under the NHMRC’s 2024 Synergy Grants scheme. Synergy Grants support…
Melbourne’s Bionics Institute has been awarded AUD$4.8 million (USD $3.2 million) by an American charitable trust to fund research into the development of a world-first, personalised, electrical treatment for Crohn’s disease.
Posted: 2 October 2024 Finding new ways to prevent and treat Crohn’s disease is a key focus for New York-based organisation The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, which has committed to funding this groundbreaking research…
Congratulations to the 2024 Governor of Victoria Export Award winners
Posted: 2 October 2024 Advanced Technologies For outstanding international success in the field of information technology, digital technologies, software, hardware or digital services. This includes solutions utilising cloud‑based platforms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things, augmented reality,…
Bristol Myers Squibb announced that the U.S. FDA approved COBENFY
Posted: 2 October 2024 Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved COBENFY™ (xanomeline and trospium chloride), an oral medication for the treatment of schizophrenia in adults. 1 COBENFY represents the first…
Pushing the ‘Missing Link’ in Non-animal Preclinical Drug Development Closer to Market
Posted: 1 October 2024 Supported by MTPConnect’s Researcher Exchange and Development within Industry (REDI) Fellowship program, Trajan Scientific and Medical and The University of Melbourne’s Dr Xumei Gao are progressing biomedical research technology for non-animal methods for drug development. Animals are extensively…
