Australia invests $400k in Kolling Orthopaedic Biomechanics Robotic Arm

A $400,000 robot which could significantly improve hip and knee replacements is now operational at the Kolling Institute...

September 23, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia's Medibio appoints new CEO

Australia's Medibio Limited has announced the appointment of Dr Thomas R. Young, M.D. as the company’s Chief Execu...

September 20, 2022 | Tuesday | News
FDA clearance for PolyNovo's wound care innovation

Australia's PolyNovo has received US FDA 510(k) clearance for NovoSorb MTX, a major new product innovation for sof...

September 21, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia identifies unique biomarkers of SARS-CoV-2 acute infections, Long COVID

Researchers at the Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC) at Murdoch University have successfully detected and quanti...

September 21, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia's EpiAxis Therapeutics partners with University Health Newtork to study prostate cancer

Australian firm EpiAxis Therapeutics, a leading epigenetics company with a focus on cancer treatment and prevention recu...

September 20, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia offers scholarships for mental health nursing and allied health courses

The government of Australia has announced the opening of applications for the next round of the Mental Health Nursing an...

September 19, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia approves new treatment for rare cancer cholangiocarcinoma

A new targeted therapy to treat a rare bile duct cancer called cholangiocarcinoma has been approved for use in Aust...

September 16, 2022 | Friday | News
Asia Pacific takes lead in cell and gene clinical trials

The Asia Pacific (APAC) region has taken in the lead in cell and gene clinical trials, accounting for the largest share ...

September 15, 2022 | Thursday | News
Innovation programme to address unmet medical needs in Victoria

University of Melbourne, Australia is expanding its Innovation Acceleration Programme (IAP) into regional Victoria, ...

September 15, 2022 | Thursday | News
China-based startup Antengene accelerates expansion in APAC region

Antengene, a biopharmaceutical startup founded in China, recently unveiled a new office space situated in Melbourne, Aus...

September 14, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia explores use of vaccinia virus-based vaccines to fight monkeypox

New research suggests recommended vaccinia virus (VACV)-based vaccines will mount a robust immune response against the m...

September 13, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia's Nutromics raises $14 M for ground-breaking wearable diagnostic platform

Australia-based medtech startup Nutromics has raised an additional $14 million for its wearable diagnostic platform...

September 12, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia designs molecule chip for modern manufacturing of drug, vaccines

Australia's University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have pioneered a new chemical process to manufacture the molecules...

September 8, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia boosts availability of digitally enabled medical technologies

ANDHealth, Australia’s leading digital health commercialisation organisation, in partnership with the Victorian Go...

September 9, 2022 | Friday | News
Australian startup OccuRx secures $16 M to progress therapies for inflammation, fibrosis

Australian biotech startup OccuRx has announcesd a $16 million cash injection to progress into clinical phase studies fo...

September 7, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Global pandemic therapeutics centre to open in Australia

The establishment of the Cumming Global Centre for Pandemic Therapeutics has been announced by the University of Melbour...

September 5, 2022 | Monday | News
Monash University receives $10.8 M grants for COVID-19 research in Australia

Three Monash University projects have received $10.8 million from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) to support res...

September 6, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia announces historic $478 M investment to change healthcare

The University of Sydney has announced its largest ever capital investment, a landmark $478 million to build a nation-...

September 2, 2022 | Friday | News
Swiss firm Helsinn Healthcare expands footprint in Asia and Middle East

Swiss firm Helsinn Group and Singapore's Juniper Biologics Pte Ltd, a science-led healthcare company focused on research...

September 2, 2022 | Friday | News
Dr Glenn Haifer and Ampersand Capital Partners acquire Australian biologics CDMO Luina Bio

AcuraBio (formerly Luina Bio), a leading Australian biopharmaceutical CDMO, has been acquired by biotech investor Dr Gle...

September 1, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia develops AI model to help epilepsy patients become seizure-free

A study led by Monash University in Australia and believed to be a world first has demonstrated that an Artificial Intel...

September 1, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia to focus research on five virus families likely to cause future pandemics

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency,...

August 30, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Pfizer emerges as leading company in Asia for COVID-19 response

Pfizer has been ranked first in its COVID-19 response, patient centricity, patient safety and bringing innovative, high-...

August 27, 2022 | Saturday | News
Some cancer immunotherapy treatments may damage fertility: Australian study

Researchers from Monash University, Australia have discovered that some immunotherapy treatments used to treat cancer ca...

August 29, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia cracks down on counterfeit drugs

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) led Australia's participation in INTERPOL's Operation Pangea, which tackles t...

August 26, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia opens first dedicated children’s immunotherapy centre

Australia’s first dedicated children’s immunotherapy centre will investigate treatments to not only increase...

August 25, 2022 | Thursday | News
Alterity Therapeutics opens first site in Europe for drug trial of Multiple System Atrophy

Australia-based Alterity Therapeutics has announced that the company’s Phase 2 clinical trial of ATH434 for ...

August 25, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia launches mobile service for mental healthcare

The Australian Government has announced the launch of the new Head to Health phone service which will help Aus...

August 23, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Hydrix receives approval for Guardian device in Singapore

Australia's Hydrix Limited has announced that the Health Services Authority of Singapore (HSA) has approved The Guardian...

August 23, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Long COVID-19 study in Australia identifies potential diagnostic and therapeutic targets

Australia-based Antisense Therapeutics has announced the outcomes from its collaboration to study the neurological aspec...

August 23, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia launches world-first preventative DNA screening for cancer, heart disease risk

The nationally collaborative project, led by Monash University and supported by researchers and clinicians across Austra...

August 22, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia invests $30 M to support vital brain and mental health research

Monash University has received a $30 million philanthropic gift that will fund vital mental health research and preventa...

August 19, 2022 | Friday | News
Australian startup Carina Biotech raises $7.5 M

Australia-based startup Carina Biotech has raised $7.5 million at first close of its current funding round, welcoming on...

August 18, 2022 | Thursday | News
EpiAxis Therapeutic, Peptilogics enter strategic drug discovery partnership

Australia's EpiAxis Therapeutics, a leading epigenetics company with a focus on the treatment, diagnosis and monitoring ...

August 17, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Moderna to build first mRNA production facility in Southern Hemisphere

Australia's Monash University has announced that US-based firm Moderna will be joining other world-leading research and ...

August 16, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia investigates how to stop painful chemo for kids

Stopping children undergoing chemotherapy from feeling pain and other debilitating side-effects is the focus of research...

August 12, 2022 | Friday | News
CSIRO opens 'missing link' lab to developing Australian vaccine pipeline

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), an Australian Government agency responsible for sc...

August 11, 2022 | Thursday | News
Starpharma signs new research agreement with Merck

Australian biotechnology company Starpharma has signed a new DEP Research Agreement with MSD, the trade name of Mer...

August 10, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Govt backs Victoria’s first mRNA innovation with $5.4 M

A collaborative team of Melbourne researchers from Monash University and the University of Melbourne in Australia have r...

August 9, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Griffith University launches two cancer research centres with $4.6 M funding

Griffith University has launched two cancer research centres backed by $4.6 million in funding from the Australian Cance...

August 9, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Telix Pharma, University of Queensland to advance work on radiopharmaceuticals

Australia-based Telix Pharmaceuticals has been jointly awarded a $4.8 million Australian Research Council (ARC) grant to...

August 8, 2022 | Monday | News
Genesis Capital invests in Australian firm Crux Biolabs

Crux Biolabs, a leading Australian laboratory for vaccines, immunotherapies, immuno-oncology and infectious diseases, ha...

August 5, 2022 | Friday | News
Lining of children’s noses better at fighting COVID-19: Australian study

University of Queensland (UQ), Australia led research has found the lining of children’s noses is better at inhibi...

August 4, 2022 | Thursday | News
COVID-19 vaccine patch fights variants better than needles: Australian study

A needle-free vaccine patch could better fight COVID-19 variants, such as Omicron and Delta, than a traditional needle v...

August 1, 2022 | Monday | News
MTPConnect launches funding opportunity for medtech players in Australia

The Clinical Translation and Commercialisation Medtech (CTCM) Programme, a Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) initiativ...

July 28, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia calls for screening of women for heart disease after complicated pregnancies

Researchers from the University of Adelaide’s Robinson Research Institute (RRI) and Flinders University in Austral...

July 27, 2022 | Wednesday | News
First-of-its-kind sprayable coating to prevent spread of infection

A first-of-its-kind sprayable coating that can prevent the surface spread of infection from bacteria and viruses includi...

July 27, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Adherium wins US clearance for GSK inhaler users to connect to new platform

Australia's Adherium, a leader in respiratory eHealth, remote monitoring and data management solutions, has receiv...

July 27, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia releases major mental health study

More than two in five Australians experience a mental health issue in their lifetime. In 2020–21 more than 3.4 mil...

July 26, 2022 | Tuesday | News
HIV home testing vital for early diagnosis: Australia study

Home-based tests designed to rapidly detect the presence of HIV could prove vital in the early diagnosis of the virus am...

July 25, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia’s first national biotech incubator announces $17 M funding

Australia’s national biotechnology incubator CUREator has announced over $17 million in funding for 23 projects ac...

July 21, 2022 | Thursday | News
Oncoshot partners with Australian Genomic Cancer Medicine Centre

Singapore-based firm Oncoshot has entered into a collaboration agreement with Omico, the Australian Genomic Cancer Medic...

July 22, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia provisionally approves Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for kids below 6 yrs

US-based Moderna has announced that the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has granted provisional regi...

July 19, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Discovery by Australia boosts hopes of preventing Type I diabetes

Australian researchers may be a step closer to preventing Type 1 diabetes after identifying a crucial protein that could...

July 18, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia clears Vivos technology to treat obstructive sleep apnea

Vivos Therapeutics has received multiple Class I clearances by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of Australia, ...

July 15, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia launches Cancer Hub

The Australian Government has launched the Cancer Hub – a national one-stop digital hub that will change the ...

July 14, 2022 | Thursday | News
Reece Pharma appoints industry research leader to head translational biz

Australia's Recce Pharmaceuticals, developing a New Class of Synthetic Anti-infectives, has announced the appointm...

July 13, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia's Telix Pharma appoints new CEO for US operations

Australian firm Telix Pharmaceuticals has announced that Kevin Richardson, a senior global executive with a career focus...

July 12, 2022 | Tuesday | News
AusBiotech expands investment attraction portfolio

AusBiotech has announced an expanded investment attraction, commenced in line with a new investment attraction strategy....

July 12, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia uses machine learning to provide early warning for emerging COVID-19 variants

Researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national scie...

July 11, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia uncovers driving forces of Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, currently has no cure or effective therapy, in part due to ...

July 8, 2022 | Friday | News
harrison.ai & Sonic Healthcare join forces to bring AI to pathology in Australia

Australia-based harrison.ai, a clinically led healthcare AI platform and Sonic Healthcare, the global medical diagn...

July 7, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australian scientists provide insights into colon cancer prevention

Scientists in Australia have isolated five strains of gut bacteria that could pave the way for new inflammatory bowel di...

July 6, 2022 | Wednesday | News
ResApp Health receives US FDA clearance for at-home sleep test

Australian firm ResApp Health, a leading digital health company developing smartphone applications for the diagnosis and...

July 6, 2022 | Wednesday | News
“ATH434 has the potential to address the underlying pathology of Multiple System Atrophy”

In conversation with BioSpectrum Asia, Dr David Stamler, Chief Executive Officer, Alterity Therapeutics reveals more abo...

July 5, 2022 | Tuesday | Opinion
Australia invests $220 M to support aged care facilities

The Australian Government is investing $106 million to provide face-to-face support for older First Nations people and $...

July 5, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia explores deadly spider venom treatment for heart attacks with $23M funding

A potentially life-saving treatment containing venom from one of the world’s deadliest spiders is one step closer ...

July 4, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia's EnGeneIC brings 2nd-Gen COVID-19 vaccine against all variants

Australian biopharma company EnGeneIC is developing the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine which can offer immunity ag...

June 29, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Third wave of COVID-19 delivers highest mortality risk in Australian ICUs

According to a new study led by Monash University, of those admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with COVID-19, aft...

June 28, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia's Noxopharm receives A$1.45M grant for inflammation-based research

Australian biotech firm Noxopharm has announced that the Victorian Government has granted A$1.45M to Noxopharm collabora...

June 27, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia develops new solution for stem cell manufacturing

Researchers at University of Technology Sydney have developed a unique 3D printed system for harvesting stem cells from ...

June 23, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia calls for urgent review on vaccines during pregnancy

Australia's University of Queensland (UQ) researchers are calling for an urgent review of low influenza vaccination rate...

June 20, 2022 | Monday | News
Medtech firm Hyperfine announces expansion into Australia and New Zealand

US-based Hyperfine Inc., creator of the Swoop Portable MR Imaging System, the world’s first US FDA-cleared portabl...

June 21, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Government invests $143.3M in Sydney Biomedical Accelerator

The University of Sydney has announced that the New South Wales (NSW) government is providing $143.3 million over four...

June 17, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia develops digital tool to give surgeons a pre-theatre rehearsal

Researchers at Australia-based University of Sydney’s School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Enginee...

June 14, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia’s mRNA projects receive funding boost

Two Monash University projects using mRNA delivery to improve treatments for people with muscular dystrophy or metabolic...

June 13, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia-US research revolutionises how chemotherapy is used for colon cancer patients

Australian-American researchers have co-designed a blood test that uses circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) to precisely iden...

June 10, 2022 | Friday | News
Government urges Australians to get vaccinated against influenza

This year, for the first time, Australia will be managing COVID-19 and an influenza season. As we move into the winter 2...

June 8, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Health tech firm Annalise partners with Fujifilm Australia

Sydney based Healthcare AI firm annalise.ai has partnered with Fujifilm Australia for the distribution of its decision s...

June 8, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia discovers new weapon against drug-resistant malaria

A new method to combat malaria which sees the disease turn against itself could offer an effective treatment for the hun...

June 7, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Tetra Bio-Pharma opens new subsidiary in Australia

Canadian firm Tetra Bio-Pharma,  a leader in cannabinoid-derived drug discovery and development, has announced...

June 8, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia calls for major investment for effective cancer prevention

New research by the Daffodil Centre, a joint venture of Cancer Council New South Wales (NSW) and the University of Sydne...

June 3, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia offers solution to improving fertility in women with obesity

Researchers may have found a solution to improving fertility in women with obesity, following a successful trial in mice...

May 31, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia advances research into blood cancer and neurological conditions in children

The Commonwealth Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) has invested close to $8 million to advance neur...

May 30, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia's Microba Life Sciences to offer world-first personalised health service

Australian startup Microba Life Sciences has signed a strategic partnership agreement with nib Holdings Limited bac...

May 26, 2022 | Thursday | News
Starpharma's nasal spray effective against influenza A & B virus

Australia-based Starpharma has announced that SPL7013, the antiviral agent in VIRALEZE nasal spray, achieved 95% and 99....

May 23, 2022 | Monday | News
New micro device injects boost to IVF success

A research team led by the University of Adelaide in Australia, in partnership with medical technology company Fertilis,...

May 18, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Scientists closely outsmarting malaria parasites

Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) have discovered why malaria parasites are vulnerable to s...

May 18, 2022 | Wednesday | News
CSIRO starts work on medicinal psychedelics

Under a new license, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), an Australian Government ...

May 18, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Nanoparticles: sometimes the smallest things can have the biggest impact

Over the last 40 years, technological developments at nano scale have increased interest in nanoparticles and their pote...

May 16, 2022 | Monday | Opinion
ENA Respiratory joins initiative to boost development of antiviral nasal spray

Australia's ENA Respiratory, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing INNA-051, a first-in-class broad-sp...

May 16, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia launches shared industry vision & blueprint navigating biotech ecosystem

For the first time in 20 years, Australia’s biotechnology sector has united to launch the Biotechnology Blueprint:...

May 16, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia drives medical product development with new initiatives

The University of Western Australia (UWA) and partners will deliver a clinical entrepreneur pilot programme and targeted...

May 13, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia launches first in-human trial for aggressive brain tumours

A novel technology designed to precisely image aggressive brain cancers and guide treatment is being developed by the Un...

May 12, 2022 | Thursday | News
Aravax appoints Dr Brett Haumann to Board of Directors

Australia's Aravax, a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on developing the most advanced novel therapy for pea...

May 11, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Texas Medical Center and Biodesign Australia join hands to enhance healthcare innovation

A major partnership between Texas Medical Center (TMC) and Biodesign Australia has been announced, aimed at advancing he...

May 9, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia develops nanotech imaging tool for smartphone disease diagnosis

Scientists at the University of Melbourne and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Transformati...

May 6, 2022 | Friday | News
Immuron appoints Steven Lydeamore as Chief Executive Officer

Immuron Limited, an Australian biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing oral immunotherapeuti...

May 6, 2022 | Friday | News
Ankere Therapeutics launches with AU$10 M seed investment in Australia

A researcher from the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) is a co-founder of Australian biotech company, ...

May 6, 2022 | Friday | News
Oz Budget Bolsters Healthcare

The Federal government is committed to its Long Term National Health Plan, through important and strategic inves...

May 6, 2022 | Friday | Analysis

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