EQT Infrastructure buys Australia's largest integrated cancer care provider

UK-based EQT Infrastructure has agreed to acquire Integrated Clinical Oncology Network Pty Ltd (Icon Group) from a ...

November 19, 2021 | Friday | News
mRNA Victoria, Ginkgo Bioworks to grow bioeconomy & biosecurity capabilities in Australia

mRNA Victoria, the agency of the Australian State of Victoria Government charged with building the State's mRNA man...

November 18, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia designs imaging software to accurately diagnose jaundice

Engineers from the University of South Australia and Middle Technical University have designed imaging softwar...

November 17, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Illumina invests $5M into genomics lab in Australia

US-based Illumina, Inc. has announced the opening of a new, fully equipped laboratory to help Australian researchers and...

November 16, 2021 | Tuesday | News
New 10 year plan to support Australians with diabetes

The Australian government has marked World Diabetes Day (on 14th November) by releasing a new 10 year plan to better sup...

November 15, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia provides additional support to patients with rare skin conditions

The Australian government is providing additional support, reducing the out of pocket costs for hundreds of Australians ...

November 12, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia puts focus on advanced 3D personalised medical manufacturing

The University of Melbourne, in partnership with 3DMEDiTech, will launch a new Joint Research and Training Centre (JRTC)...

November 11, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia launches Centre to transform treatments for mental health disorders

Monash University in Australia is launching an end-to-end, cross-disciplinary Centre to drive novel psychiatric drug dis...

November 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia discovers new solution to fight chronic middle ear infections

Bacteria found in children’s upper respiratory systems could help fight chronic middle ear infections, the leading...

November 9, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia announces funding worth $239M for 248 medical research projects

248 innovative research projects will receive a share of $239 million from the Morrison Government to help advance our u...

November 5, 2021 | Friday | News
New strategy shot in the arm for medical innovation at Australia

Western Australia has launched its first-ever Health and Medical Life Sciences Industry Strategy, as announced by the St...

November 3, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia uses ‘Live' brain models to hunt for Alzheimer's treatment

Studying tiny ‘live’ models of the human brain has helped researchers understand its ageing and find a key t...

November 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia gives recognition to India's Covaxin & China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has determined that Covaxin (manufactured by Bhar...

November 1, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia develops bionic technology to assist people with nerve damage

A shoe insole using bionic technology to help people with nerve damage maintain their balance has been designed by Unive...

October 29, 2021 | Friday | News
Clinical trial for generalised anxiety disorder receives ethics approval in Australia

Monash University in Australia has obtained ethics approval for a world-first clinical trial investigating psilocybin-as...

October 28, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster dose

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

October 27, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia makes breakthrough in vaccine development to prevent hookworm infection

There’s been a significant breakthrough in the development of a vaccine to prevent hookworm infection, a parasite ...

October 26, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia launches new tool to explain COVID-19 risks

A calculator to help people understand their risk factors for COVID-19 infection and vaccination has been launched by th...

October 25, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia invests $85M to find solutions for major questions in human health

Seventeen multidisciplinary research teams will each receive $5 million in funding from the Australian government to fin...

October 22, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia boosts stem cell research with grants worth $25M

The government is boosting Australian led stem cell research through $25 million in grants, to help find and develop inn...

October 21, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia's iQ Group offers saliva glucose biosensor to replace invasive finger-prick

Australia-based iQ Group Global, on behalf of its subsidiary, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd (LSBD), has ann...

October 20, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia explores 'cell fitness' for predicting health outcomes in COVID-19 patients

Cell fitness has been identified as a way of predicting health outcomes in COVID-19 patients, according to a University ...

October 19, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia secures access to two additional COVID-19 treatments

The Australian government has secured access to two additional COVID-19 treatments to support the National Plan to Trans...

October 18, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia approves COVID-19 rapid antigen self-tests

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the medicine and therapeutic regulatory agency of the Australian Government,...

October 15, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia's Topelia to raises $25M in Series A funding for Antiviral Triple Therapy (ATT)

Topelia Australia, a biotech company established to commercialize a novel ATT treatment for Australians in quarantine, h...

October 14, 2021 | Thursday | News