Synthetic biology advances to generate $30 B opportunity for Australia

Synthetic biology could underpin an industry worth up to $30 billion per year and create over 50,000 new jobs by 2040, a...

February 29, 2024 | Thursday | News
BioCina and NovaCina partners to accelerate global end-to-end biopharmaceutical manufacturing solutions

BioCina Pty Ltd., a global end-to-end biologics Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO), and NovaCina...

February 28, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Australian firm Telix Pharma expands US infrastructure with acquisition of IsoTherapeutics

Australia-based Telix Pharmaceuticals has entered into an agreement to acquire IsoTherapeutics Group, LLC, a specialty r...

February 27, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Experts map and describe health research digital ecosystem in Queensland

Health Translation Queensland (HTQ) has launched a snapshot of Queensland’s health research digital ecosystem whic...

February 26, 2024 | Monday | News
Australian govt injects $50 M to construct world-leading artificial heart

The Australian government is providing $50 million to develop and commercialise the world’s most advanced artifici...

February 20, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Korean startup AIRS Medical takes AI-powered MRI solutions to Australia & New Zealand

South Korea-based startup AIRS Medical Inc., a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered healthcare solut...

February 19, 2024 | Monday | News
Australia establishes new task force to guide use of AI in public health system

New South Wales (NSW) Health in Australia has established a new taskforce to inform and guide the use of artificia...

February 15, 2024 | Thursday | News
University of Sydney signs precision-medicine research partnership with Bruker

Researchers at the University of Sydney, Australia have taken a significant stride forward in precision medicine, with t...

February 13, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Biocon Biologics partners with Sandoz Australia for cancer biosimilars

Indian firm Biocon Biologics Ltd (BBL), a fully integrated biosimilars company and subsidiary of Biocon, has announ...

February 9, 2024 | Friday | News
Australia's Recce partners Indonesia's Etana Biotech to advance anti-infective R&D, manufacturing 

Recce Pharmaceuticals Limited, the Company developing a New Class of Synthetic Anti-Infectives, has signed Memorand...

February 8, 2024 | Thursday | News
Australia invests $35 M to build manufacturing facility for artificial corneas

The University of Sydney will receive $35 million through the Medical Research Future Fund of the Australian governmen...

February 7, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Australian government invests $20 M to find new therapies for childhood brain cancers

The Australian government is funding a wide-ranging national research programme that will give new hope and help to Aust...

February 5, 2024 | Monday | News
ProductLife Group acquires Australia's Commercial Eyes, expanding footprint in APAC region

France-based ProductLife Group (PLG), the specialised global provider of regulatory, scientific, surveillance, quality a...

February 2, 2024 | Friday | News
Clarius Mobile Health launches wireless ultrasound scanner in Australia

Canada-based Clarius Mobile Health has announced that its revolutionary Clarius PAL HD3 wireless handheld whole-body ult...

January 25, 2024 | Thursday | News
Australia assists startups and SMEs in digital health and med tech sectors with new programme

Australia’s national science agency, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO...

January 23, 2024 | Tuesday | News
GSK Australia announces regulatory approval of respiratory syncytial virus vaccine AREXVY

GSK Australia has received Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) approval of AREXVY (respiratory syncytial virus v...

January 19, 2024 | Friday | News
Australia approves Immunexpress' sepsis diagnostic device

Immunexpress,  a molecular diagnostic company based in Brisbane and Seattle, has announced that Sept...

January 18, 2024 | Thursday | News
IIT Madras & Deakin University, Australia to launch academy for cutting edge healthcare research

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) and Deakin University, Australia, have announced the launch of &...

January 15, 2024 | Monday | News
Scientists in Australia develop tool to identify dust lung disease risk

A new dust testing methodology developed by Australia-based University of Queensland researchers offers workers better p...

January 12, 2024 | Friday | News
Specialised Therapeutics, Ascendis Pharma to commercialise endocrinology therapies in Australia and SE Asia

Singapore-based biopharmaceutical company Specialised Therapeutics Asia (ST) has added three new endocrinology ther...

January 8, 2024 | Monday | News
Australia unveils 10-year vision for digital health

The Australian Government’s vision for digital health over the next 10 years has been unveiled in a new plan relea...

December 26, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Australia discovers drug candidate to potentially tackle ER-positive breast cancer

An international team of researchers, led by Pfizer in collaboration with Monash University and the Australian-based Can...

December 20, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Australia invests $15 M to open medical imaging facility for research & clinical use

The Australian National Total Body PET Facility officially opens in Sydney, delivering the first Total Body Positron...

December 13, 2023 | Wednesday | News
China's MGI Tech takes cutting-edge DNA, Cell and Spatial Omics capabilities to Australia

MGI Australia, a subsidiary of China headquartered MGI Tech Co., a global leader in life science technology, has announc...

December 15, 2023 | Friday | News
Bharat Biotech and University of Sydney sign MoU to advance academic and vaccine research collaboration

India-based Bharat Biotech International and the University of Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute (Sydney ID) have ann...

December 4, 2023 | Monday | News
Australia announces world-first trial with slow-release of ketamine drug to treat depression

In a world-first, researchers at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) and the University of Adelaide in Australia are seeki...

December 11, 2023 | Monday | News
Australian government launches first National Health and Climate Strategy

The Australian government has launched Australia’s first National Health and Climate Strategy that is aimed at ens...

December 5, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Australia's Monash University and India’s Amity University sign MoU on further collaboration

Australia-based Monash University and India’s Amity University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to ...

November 24, 2023 | Friday | News
Australia opens new Collaborative Practice Centre to address critical gap in national healthcare

A new centre set to transform the way health professionals in Australia work together has been launched at the Universit...

November 23, 2023 | Thursday | News
Australia unlocks potential of personalised medicine with $66 M for genomics research

The Austrlian government is unlocking the power and potential of personalised medicine with $66 million for genomics res...

November 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Australia opens new centre to support ageing & train health scientists

A new Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre based at Monash University, Australia aims to boost research and training...

November 21, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Australia to become first country in the world to eliminate cervical cancer

The government is leading the way for Australia to become the first country in the world to eliminate cervical cancer, w...

November 20, 2023 | Monday | News
Australian government announces biggest investment in cancer nurses on record

The Australian government is committing $166 million for a first of its kind Australian Cancer Nursing and Navigati...

November 17, 2023 | Friday | News
University of Melbourne signs research partnership in Indonesia

The University of Melbourne, Australia and Indonesia’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology hav...

November 15, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Australia establishes first national occupational respiratory disease registry

The Australian government has taken the next step in fighting deadly occupational respiratory diseases like silicosis by...

November 14, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Australian startup Psychae Therapeutics secures $4.5 M for developing psychedelic-assisted therapies for mental healthcare

The University of Melbourne, Australia has announced the first syndicated investment of $4.5 million by the University&r...

November 14, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Take The Lead in Revolutionising Pharma Regulation with 2023 PDA Asia Pacific Conference

The upcoming 2023 PDA Asia Pacific Regulatory Conference & Sponsored Workshop is all set to kick off a transformativ...

November 11, 2023 | Saturday | News
New national centre to transform Australia’s homegrown medicine capabilities launches in Melbourne

MedChem Australia, a first-of-its-kind national initiative connecting three of the nation’s top medicinal chemistr...

November 8, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Australia's Deakin University inks MoU with Indian Institute of Technology to boost research ecosystem

In a significant expansion of its strategic engagement initiatives currently undertaken 'in India, with India,...

November 7, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Moderna launches mRNA Platform Incubator Network in collaboration with key Australian organisations

US-based biotech firm Moderna, Inc. has announced the launch of the mRNA Platform Incubator Network, a pioneering initia...

November 6, 2023 | Monday | News
Enterprise Singapore expands Global Innovation Alliance for Singapore’s tech startups to connect with innovation hubs in Mumbai, Melbourne and Sydney

Enterprise Singapore (EnterpriseSG) announced the addition of three new Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) nodes on 31 Oct...

October 31, 2023 | Tuesday | Company results
New report reveals economic impact of R&D tax incentive for biotech industry in Australia

The newly-launched ‘Economic impact of the Research & Development Tax Incentive (RDTI) for the biotech industr...

November 3, 2023 | Friday | News
Australian Government releases landmark cancer plan to improve screening, treatment

The Australian Government has released the landmark Australian Cancer Plan, which aims to improve prevention, screening,...

November 2, 2023 | Thursday | News
First and only metered-dose cannabis inhaler to obtain ARTG approval in Australia

Israel-based company Syqe Medical, together with Australian sponsor and distribution partner Novachem, has announched&nb...

November 1, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Importance of building Australia-China biotech collaborations

China is Australia’s greatest two-way trading partner in products and services, making up close to one-third of th...

October 26, 2023 | Thursday | Opinion
Australia invests in Generative AI technology to address health and medical challenges

A total of $937,312 has been awarded to nineteen Western Australian (WA) innovators to promote creative solutions throug...

October 27, 2023 | Friday | News
World-first trial by Australia to test efficacy of Strep A and rheumatic heart disease vaccine

Australia-based Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics has received a $5 million philanthropic donation fro...

October 25, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Cyrus K. Mirsaidi steps in as Global CEO of Bridgewest Perth Pharma

Bridgewest Perth Pharma, a global pharmaceutical supply and manufacturing company, has announced that Cyrus K. Mirs...

October 24, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Australian Institute for Infectious Disease calls for strengthened global pandemic rules

The Australian Institute for Infectious Disease (AIID) has called for improved international rules for surveillance, ear...

October 24, 2023 | Tuesday | News
US FDA funds Australian research for better, affordable asthma inhalers

Australian researchers have been awarded $AU1 million ($687,000) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to devel...

October 23, 2023 | Monday | News
Australia’s Doherty Institute joins CEPI to speed up pandemic vaccines development

The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, a joint venture between the University of Melbourne and the Roya...

October 20, 2023 | Friday | News
Australia opens new imaging facility to boost research and healthcare

A new multimillion dollar imaging facility that will underpin Western Australia’s access to potentially life-chang...

October 16, 2023 | Monday | News
Australian government injects $15 M for new cancer fighting research centre

The Australian government is funding ground breaking research that will revolutionise drug development for prostate and ...

October 13, 2023 | Friday | News
Australia builds workforce to make mental healthcare more available and equitable

The Australian government, along with all state and territory governments, have developed and endorsed a plan to build A...

October 11, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Australia's Monash University co-leads report into precision medicine in diabetes

A new international consensus report on precision medicine in diabetes prevention and care has been published in Nature ...

October 10, 2023 | Tuesday | News
French pharma firm Sanofi opens new research site at Griffith University in Australia

Sanofi, one of the world’s leading healthcare companies, has progressed its partnership with Griffith University b...

October 9, 2023 | Monday | News
Australia's CSL inks global research agreements to fast-track therapeutics innovation

Australian behemoth CSL’s Research Acceleration Initiative (RAI) continues to expand its reach with seven medical ...

October 6, 2023 | Friday | News
New blood test could improve concussion diagnosis: Australian study

A global blood test for concussion could be a step closer after Australia's Monash University-led study discovered speci...

October 5, 2023 | Thursday | News
University of Melbourne inks MoU with Public Health Foundation of India

A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the University of Melbourne, Australia and the Public He...

October 4, 2023 | Wednesday | News
What's Transforming Australia's Thriving Life Sciences Industry?

The Australian life sciences sector has grown by an astonishing 43 per cent over the past five years, signifying a drama...

October 3, 2023 | Tuesday | Opinion
Australia develops first-of-its-kind tool for detection of monkey pox virus

In a collaborative study published in The Lancet Microbe, the team of scientists, led by Australia's Peter Doherty Insti...

September 27, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Australian govt invests $35 M to develop 14 Centres of Research Excellence for healthcare

The Australian government is investing $35 million to fund 14 Centres of Research Excellence (CRE), bringing together so...

September 29, 2023 | Friday | News
Australian first biobank to discover new treatments for genetic muscle diseases in children

The National Muscle Disease Bio-databank, co-led by Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Monash University and A...

September 25, 2023 | Monday | News
Researchers in Australia “bioprint” living brain cell networks in lab

Engineers at Australia's Monash University have successfully used “bioinks” containing living nerve cells (n...

September 20, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Australia establishes Pacific Health Information Support Hub

The Australian Government will partner with several Pacific island countries to boost capacity to collect and analyse he...

September 21, 2023 | Thursday | News
National study in Australia to investigate risk factors for back and neck pain

Experts from the University of Adelaide are leading the Australian Longitudinal Study on Back and Neck Pain and are work...

September 16, 2023 | Saturday | News
Bristol Myers Squibb inks $50 M deal to treat immune-mediated diseases in Asia

US-based startup Zenas BioPharma has entered into a license and collaboration agreement with Bristol Myers Squibb Compan...

September 6, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Non-animal models industry to generate over $1.5 B and 5,000 jobs for Australia by 2040: Study

An emerging capability that uses ‘non-animal models’ to evaluate novel medical products is estimated to gene...

September 6, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Smell Clinic commences in Australia as researchers gather more data on Alzheimer’s disease

A pilot smell clinic has commenced at Australia-based Griffith University’s Gold Coast campus in a bid to gather m...

September 5, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Promising industry-academia partnership in Australia for cancer drug development

Australian pharmaceutical company Phebra and the University of Wollongong (UOW) have announced a new six-year collaborat...

August 30, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Understanding Medicinal Drug Delivery Using Dry Powder Inhalers (DPIs)

For a long time, dry powder inhalers (DPI) have been used for treating asthma, and other respiratory diseases, by delive...

September 1, 2023 | Friday | Opinion
“The APAC market is expected to witness the fastest growth of any radiopharmaceutical market worldwide”

Can you introduce the field of radiopharmaceuticals and the activities of Telix Pharma? Telix is an Australian-headquar...

September 1, 2023 | Friday | Opinion
Singapore-based Specialised Therapeutics acquires rights of new oral MND therapy in Australia & NZ

Singapore-based biopharmaceutical company Specialised Therapeutics Asia (ST) will partner with Netherlands-based biotech...

August 28, 2023 | Monday | News
Australia-Korea joint development agreement for needle-free patch delivery of typhoid vaccine

South Korea-based SK bioscience has entered into a collaboration agreement with Vaxxas, an Australian biotechnology comp...

August 29, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Singapore and Australia sign MoU for health cooperation

Singapore's Minister for Health Ong Ye Kung and Australia Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler have signed a Me...

August 21, 2023 | Monday | News
Australia shines in clinical trial activity ranking but gaps exist

An examination of how clinical trials have changed in Australia over the past 15 years has identified challenges such as...

August 18, 2023 | Friday | News
Moderna invests $3 M to advance mRNA medicines in Australia

Australia's Monash University and American firm Moderna have announced the establishment of the Monash-Moderna Quantitat...

August 16, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Australia takes new step towards future 3D printing of human tissues

A team of bioengineers and biomedical scientists from the University of Sydney and the Children's Medical Research Ins...

August 8, 2023 | Tuesday | News
First step towards new vaccine for childhood ear infections in Australia

Australia's University of Adelaide researchers have started work on developing a new vaccine that could help ward off pa...

August 9, 2023 | Wednesday | News
New report shows increasing US investment in Australian biotechs

Australia continues to attract significant investment from US investors, with the total figure of US investment into Aus...

August 7, 2023 | Monday | News
Australian government injects $3 M for dust disease education & training

The Australian government is providing $3 million for training to health professionals to better support workers affecte...

August 4, 2023 | Friday | News
"Southeast Asia plays a significant role in our strategic plan, given the high demand for digital solutions"

How is Annalise.ai planning to strengthen its presence in India? Are you exploring partnerships with Indian hospitals- b...

August 3, 2023 | Thursday | Opinion
AHI and Changlin announce partnership for transformative leap into future of healthcare in China

Australian firm Advanced Health Intelligence (AHI) has executed a binding exclusive, perpetual license with Shangha...

August 3, 2023 | Thursday | News
New Westmead Biomedical Incubator in Australia to deliver jobs and better medical care

Australia's flagship deep tech incubator Cicada Innovations is expanding with the opening of a health-focused incub...

August 3, 2023 | Thursday | News
Australian startup Navi Medical Technology raises $2.4 M

Navi Medical Technology, a medical device startup focusing on paediatric innovations, has announced the completion of it...

August 2, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea discusses bilateral and multilateral cooperation with Australia in healthcare

Minister of Health and Welfare Cho, KyooHong in South Korea, recently discussed the approaches to cooperate in the healt...

August 1, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Malaysia's healthcare player RSDH deploys AI tools in partnership with Annalise.ai & Amazon

Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care (RSDH), a leading healthcare provider in Malaysia, has partnered with Australian startup A...

July 27, 2023 | Thursday | News
New facility in Sydney to raise bar in medical teaching and learning

The University of Sydney has launched an innovative new facility - purpose-built to bring health students and applied he...

July 27, 2023 | Thursday | News
Genomic profiling offers hope for 23,000 cancer patients in Australia

A high technology genomic profiling programme supported by the Australian government will examine new treatments for adv...

July 31, 2023 | Monday | News
Industry-academia partnership in Australia for $135 M to develop RNA-based COVID anti-viral

Australia's Griffith University has entered into a $135 million commercial partnership with Gene Company to further deve...

July 26, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Breakthrough lung disease scanner receives $1.1 M backing from Australian govt

The Australian government has provided $1.1 million towards development of a new scanner which could revolutionise diagn...

July 25, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Australia launches national cell and gene manufacturing blueprint

AusBiotech, an Australian industry body representing and advocating for organisations doing business in and with the glo...

July 24, 2023 | Monday | News
Australia introduces new cardiovascular disease guidelines

The Australian Government has launched the first major update to the cardiovascular disease prevention guidelines in ove...

July 21, 2023 | Friday | News
Generative AI to contribute $13 B annually to Australia’s healthcare sector by 2030: Report

A new report says that Australia’s healthcare sector could unlock billions of dollars in value by 2030 if it accel...

July 20, 2023 | Thursday | News
Australia announces world first trial for kids with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Three boys in New South Wales (NSW), Australia have become the youngest patients in the world to receive therapy for Duc...

July 19, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Quest Diagnostics with Australian firm Envision Sciences launches novel prostate cancer test in US

US-based Quest Diagnostics has announced the launch of a novel prostate cancer biomarker test through its subspecialty p...

July 18, 2023 | Tuesday | News
$3.8 M funding boost to BioSpine research project in Australia

A crucial Griffith University research programme focusing on digitally-enabled rehabilitation technology for spinal cord...

July 14, 2023 | Friday | News
STI test kit vending machines trial to improve sexual health services in Victoria

Free sexually transmitted infection (STI) test kit vending machines have been introduced for the first time in regional ...

July 13, 2023 | Thursday | News
Data collection underway for ground-breaking cancer study in Australia

A first of its kind study exploring cancer in First Nations Australian communities has begun data collection with the la...

July 12, 2023 | Wednesday | News
China Scholarship Council and University of Melbourne partner to fund PhD candidates until 2027

The University of Melbourne, Australia has announced a partnership renewal with the China Scholarship Council for ...

July 11, 2023 | Tuesday | News

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