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
Australia explores use of antidepressants to treat nerve pain

Researchers at Australia’s national science agency Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (C...

May 5, 2022 | Thursday | News
EMVision partners with Keysight Technologies Australia

Australia's EMVision Medical Devices Limited, a medical device company focused on the development and commercialisation ...

May 5, 2022 | Thursday | News
Servatus strengthens board with new appointment

Servatus Limited, an Australian biopharmaceutical company delivering leading novel autoimmune and microbiome therapies, ...

May 4, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia's Monash University opens world-class robotics research facility

The Monash University Faculty of Engineering has launched a new world-class robotics research facility to train the next...

May 3, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia designs 3D-printed sensor bracelet as new assistive healthcare technology

Australian researchers are developing a 3D printed bracelet to allow people living with hand-impairment to easily use co...

May 2, 2022 | Monday | News
Varian partners with Icon Group to advance patient-centric solutions

Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company (Varian), has announced a five-year research and professional services agreement ...

April 29, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia grants provisional determination for Moderna bivalent COVID-19 vaccine

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), part of the Department of Health in Australia, has granted a provisiona...

April 29, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia's Alterity Therapeutics to start phase 2 trial of neuro drug in UK

Alterity Therapeutics, a biotechnology company dedicated to developing disease modifying treatments for neurodegenerativ...

April 28, 2022 | Thursday | News
Anteris Technologies partners with Yale University

Australia's Anteris Technologies has announced its research partnership with Yale University and the Yale Cardiova...

April 28, 2022 | Thursday | News
Singapore's HealthBeats raises $3M in seed funding

HealthBeats, a Singapore-based healthtech startup with end-to-end remote vitals monitoring solution, has announced the c...

April 28, 2022 | Thursday | News
China's Antengene looks to start phase I trial in Australia

China's Antengene Corporation, a leading innovative, commercial-stage global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to disc...

April 27, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia's DetectedX and GE Healthcare announce mammography education partnership

Fostering global excellence in diagnostic accuracy, Australia-based DetectedX and GE Healthcare have entered into an edu...

April 26, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia provides grant worth $4 M for stroke and kidney disease research

More than $4 million has been awarded to two projects at The George Institute for Global Health at UNSW Sydney, Australi...

April 25, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia-based SpeeDx expands COVID-19 diagnostics to include self-collected samples

Australia's SpeeDx Pty. Ltd., a developer of innovative molecular diagnostic solutions, has added saliva to the list of ...

April 22, 2022 | Friday | News
Australian Contract Research Organisation (CRO) Avance Clinical leads in APAC

Avance Clinical, the largest premium Australian Contract Research Organisation (CRO) for international biotechs, has bee...

April 20, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia develops skin microbiopsy device to change skin cancer diagnosis

A skin microbiopsy device developed by researchers at The University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia, that takes tissue ...

April 19, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia explores risk reduction of stroke and heart problems after surgery

Researchers from the University of Sydney and Westmead Hospital in Australia have been awarded $1.8 million to advance r...

April 18, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia's Telix starts US trial

Australia's Telix Pharmaceuticals has announced first commercial doses of its prostate cancer imaging agent, Illuccix&re...

April 18, 2022 | Monday | News
Stroke cuts life expectancy by one third: Australian study

Almost two thirds of acute stroke patients fail to survive more than a decade and have high risk of recurrence, promptin...

April 15, 2022 | Friday | News
FDA grants Fast Track designation for Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals Phase III Osteoarthritis Program

Australia's Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on repurposing existing...

April 14, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia's ResApp and Pfizer enter into R&D license agreement

Australia's ResApp Health Limited has entered into a binding scheme implementation deed with Pfizer Australia Holdings P...

April 13, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia develops wireless neuro-stimulator to revolutionise patient care

Many neurological disorders like Parkinson’s, chronic depression and other psychiatric conditions could be managed...

April 12, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Abbott Senior Medical Director joins Nutromics as inaugural Chief Medical Officer

Australian and US MedTech startup Nutromics (Nutromics or the Company), a global leader in DNA-based biosensors, announc...

April 12, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia-based Telix Pharmaceuticals inks oncology deal with Eli Lilly

Australia's Telix Pharmaceuticals has entered into a licence agreement with Eli Lilly and Company under which Telix is g...

April 11, 2022 | Monday | News
Medriva announces availability of new COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test kits in Australia

Medriva, a leading global manufacturer of COVID-19 testing and vaccination products, has announced the Australian a...

April 8, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia finds antimicrobial resistance making UTIs more deadly

A new study led by Australia’s national science agency, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisati...

April 7, 2022 | Thursday | News
PSMA-PET Imaging to be funded through medicare in Australia from July 2022

Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited welcomes the listing of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron emission tomogr...

April 7, 2022 | Thursday | News
Microba, Ginkgo Bioworks partner to discover novel live biotherapeutics

Microba Life Sciences, a precision microbiome science company, and Ginkgo Bioworks , the leading horizontal platfor...

April 6, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia launches flagship biological storage facility 'Biobanking Victoria'

Monash University has officially launched Australia’s first industry-focused storage facility for biological mater...

April 6, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Trescal launches single source calibration solution across Australia and New Zealand

Trescal, the global leader in calibration services, has announced the launch of its single source instrumentation soluti...

April 5, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia's Microba completes successful IPO

Australia-based Microba Life Sciences commences trading on the Australian Securities Exchange following the completion o...

April 5, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Telix's Illuccix launches in the US

Australia's Telix Pharmaceuticals announced that its prostate cancer imaging agent, Illuccix (kit for preparation o...

April 4, 2022 | Monday | News
Telix, GMS and Monash awarded $23M from government

Telix Pharmaceuticals has announced that it is part of a $71.2 million Australian Precision Medicine Enterprise (APME) P...

April 4, 2022 | Monday | News
New trial in Australia could help increase supply of Japanese encephalitis vaccine

A potential new approach to administering an existing Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine could make it more affordable a...

April 1, 2022 | Friday | News
Beroni Group announces appointment of Dr. John Chiplin to Board of Directors

Beroni Group, an Australia-based diversified biopharmaceutical enterprise focused on the research, development, innovati...

April 1, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia make medicines more affordable

Australians will have cheaper access to treatments for high cholesterol, heart failure and high blood pressure from toda...

April 1, 2022 | Friday | News
Sonoma Pharmaceuticals launches new UTI product in Australia and NewZealand

US-based Sonoma Pharmaceuticals, a global healthcare leader developing and producing patented Microcyn technology based ...

March 31, 2022 | Thursday | News
Baymatob completes capital raise to advance life-saving labor monitoring device

Australian Medical device company Baymatob has completed a placement of A$4.215 million, with proceeds used to continue ...

March 30, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia invests $537 B in healthcare over next four years

The Coalition Government in Australia is investing in a stronger health system as part of its plan for a stronger future...

March 30, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Telix and Xiel Sign U.K. and Ireland Distribution Agreement for Illuccix

Australia-based Telix Pharmaceuticals has signed an exclusive agreement with Xiel Limited (Xiel) for the distributi...

March 29, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Telix granted FDA Orphan Drug Designation for bone marrow conditioning treatment

Australia's Telix Pharmaceuticals announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan...

March 29, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia explores changes in brain under influence of psychedelic drugs

It is well known that ingesting psilocybin (magic mushrooms) will induce profound changes in consciousness and perceptio...

March 29, 2022 | Tuesday | News
ResApp announces positive results for new novel smartphone-based COVID-19 screening test

ResApp Health, a leading digital health company developing smartphone applications for the diagnosis and management of r...

March 28, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia commences recruitment for Ph 1 trial of two indigenous COVID-19 vaccines

Melbourne researchers are calling on healthy people aged 18-70 living in Victoria to roll up their sleeves for a Phase 1...

March 28, 2022 | Monday | News
Critical cystic fibrosis drug now on PBS

Australians with cystic fibrosis will soon have access to a new treatment following the listing of Trikafta® on the ...

March 28, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia invests more than $100 M for seasonal influenza vaccines

The Australian government is investing more than $100 million for seasonal influenza vaccines to protect Aus...

March 25, 2022 | Friday | News
New clinical trial collaboration for Cu-64 SAR-bisPSMA in prostate cancer

Australia's Clarity Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company developing next-generation products to...

March 25, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia to manufacture mRNA vaccines against future pandemics

An in-principle agreement was first announced in December last year for a factory to produce 25 million doses a year fro...

March 24, 2022 | Thursday | News
CTT Pharma announces Australia patent approval

CTT Pharmaceutical Holdings has expanded its reach into additional international markets with a successful patent applic...

March 24, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia's first human study into effects of live biotherapeutics on insomnia

Servatus Ltd, an Australian biopharmaceutical company delivering leading novel autoimmune and microbiome therapies, has ...

March 23, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Telix advances development of Glioblastoma Therapy Program

Telix Pharmaceuticals announces it has made significant progress in advancing the Company's glioblastoma multiforme (GBM...

March 23, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia invests $28.1 M to establish new Genomics agency

Through its 10-year Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) plan, the Australian government is helping Australians live long...

March 22, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Detecting COVID-19 using only a smartphone

ResApp Health announced positive results for a new novel cough audio-based COVID-19 screening test that only requires a ...

March 22, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia invests $43 million to expand mental health services

More than $43 million will be invested into mental health and suicide prevention support and services across the Norther...

March 21, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia suggests new therapy to stabilise plaques associated with heart attack

A novel new therapy has been found to reduce harmful plaque in arteries and change its composition so it is less likely ...

March 21, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia registers first eye drops to slow short-sightedness progress in children

Australia-based Aspen Pharmacare has announced the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) listing of a new medicati...

March 18, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia gets access to world’s first lung scanner

Australians with lung conditions will be able to access the world’s first and only dedicated lung scanner, which w...

March 17, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia recommends effective biopsy technique to identify cancer spread

Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), a procedure used in people diagnosed with melanoma to identify disease spread, has no...

March 16, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia finds ways to detect nano plastics in human body

In one of the world’s first plastics contamination-controlled laboratories, Australia-based University of Que...

March 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia to give better care and treatment for blood cancer patients

Australians with blood cancer will receive improved treatment and care through new and continued funding from the Morris...

March 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Eucure Biopharma starts Phase I trial of YH002 (Anti-OX40 mAb)

Eucure Biopharma, a wholly owned subsidiary of Biocytogen, announced the first patient dosing for a phase I multi-r...

March 14, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia launches first ever Indigenous health workforce plan

The Australia Government has launched a ten-year plan to increase the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workf...

March 14, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia to use mRNA technology to research global public health threats

The University of Queensland (UQ), in Australia, has been selected as one of the first launch institutions in the world ...

March 11, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia's Enosis Therapeutics shows use of VR in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy

The world's first scientific paper offering a careful evaluation of the synergistic use of Virtual Reality (VR) and Psyc...

March 11, 2022 | Friday | News
Antengene announces XPOVIO approved by Australia for multiple myeloma

Antengene Corporation, a leading innovative commercial stage global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering, ...

March 10, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia identifies stillbirth and chronic disease link in world's first discovery

An anomaly in the development of lymphatic vessels in unborn children, leading to fluid accumulating in the heart, lungs...

March 9, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia gives $30 M boost to indigenous health research

The Australian Government continues to invest in indigenous-led health research to drive better outcomes for Aboriginal ...

March 7, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia launches real-time prescription monitoring system

The Australian government has launched Canberra Script, a real time prescription monitoring system to enable medical pro...

March 4, 2022 | Friday | News
Anti-viral agent in Australian-developed nasal spray highly active against 'Omicron'

In a major development for its VIRALEZE™ antiviral nasal spray, Australia-based Starpharma has announced that its ...

March 4, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia recommends Novavax for use as COVID-19 booster

The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) has recommended the use of the Novavax vaccine as a boos...

March 3, 2022 | Thursday | News
Common pain and fever medicines might increase vulnerability to COVID-19: Australia study

The largest clinical review of immune responses to paracetamol, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and opioi...

March 2, 2022 | Wednesday | News
New national academic centre opens in Australia for healthy ageing research

Research into issues affecting older Australians has taken another step forward with the new national academic centre at...

March 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia provisionally approves AstraZeneca's EVUSHELD for pre-exposure prevention of COVID-19

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has granted provisional approval to AstraZeneca for its tixagevi...

February 28, 2022 | Monday | News
Researchers use Agilent’s spectrometer for COVID-19 detection via saliva screening in Australia

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that researchers from the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute&nb...

February 25, 2022 | Friday | News
New vaccine trial in Australia evaluates fractional COVID-19 booster shots

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) in Norway and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute...

February 24, 2022 | Thursday | News
New research in Australia aims to end refrigeration of vaccines

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

February 23, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia lays focus on students to pursue career in aged care

The government will provide $3.7 million to the University of South Australia (UniSA) to create a training site in Port ...

February 22, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia invests $23 M for preventive health projects

The Australia government is investing $23 million in three Victorian health projects that will help prevent chronic dise...

February 21, 2022 | Monday | News
Personalised 3D-printed ostomy seal set to improve patient outcomes in Australia

A new manufacturing research collaboration utilising 3D print technologies could soon provide people living with stoma b...

February 18, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia provisionally approves Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for 6-11 years old

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has provisionally approved the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, SPIKEVA...

February 17, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia expands access to potentially life-saving radiotherapy treatments

US-based Accuray Incorporated has announced that the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH), the largest m...

February 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia ensures use of latest technology to manage diabetes

Australians with diabetes will now have access to the next-generation Dexcom G6 Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM), ens...

February 14, 2022 | Monday | News
Cytiva fuels biotech development in Australia and New Zealand

Cytiva, a global life sciences leader, announces the winner of its first BioChallenge for the Australia and&nb...

February 10, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia links low testosterone levels in women with double risk of cardiac events

Australia's Monash University study has challenged the view that testosterone is bad for women’s hearts, showing t...

February 9, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia presents novel study to help kids with severe epilepsy

New research from the University of South Australia could deliver a breakthrough for children suffering from o...

February 8, 2022 | Tuesday | News
$24 M for research to reduce pressure on emergency departments in Australia

The Australian Government will invest up to $24 million in research to improve acute care systems and reduce waiting tim...

February 7, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia invests $15 M to establish innovative cancer genomics laboratory

The Morrison government is investing $15 million to help establish an innovative cancer genomics laboratory in South Aus...

February 4, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia launches new GPCR biotech firm with AUD$140 M in financing

Two researchers from the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) in Australia are amongst the co-founders of ...

February 3, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia seeks partners to upscale biotech facility in NSW

New South Wales (NSW) will leverage its world-class cell and gene therapy expertise to establish Australia’s first...

February 2, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia offers better outcomes for newborn cardio-respiratory health

Researchers at Monash University in Australia have developed new software which delivers advanced sound quality of heart...

February 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia targets bacteria behind respiratory infections

Researchers in Australia have discovered a way to kill a type of bacteria that causes millions of respiratory infections...

January 31, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia approves Pfizer booster for 16–17 year olds

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has approved the Pfizer COVID-19 booster dose for young people a...

January 28, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia accelerates 'Microbiome Medicine' with new partnership between BiomeBank & Hudson Institute

The translation of research into the development of innovative and life-saving microbial therapies is set to transform i...

January 27, 2022 | Thursday | News

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