Sydney based start-up HealthMatch raises $1.3M

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 18 Jun, 2018

HealthMatch, an Australian start-up aiming to become the go-to platform linking sick patients with clinical trials of potential treatment, is targeting US expansion after a $1.3 million cap...Read more

Moxidectin gets USFDA nod to treat River Blindness

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 14 Jun, 2018

Medicines Development for Global Health (MDGH) and the World Health Organisation Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) have announced that the United States...Read more

Spin-outs from University of Queensland generate $600 million

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 04 Jun, 2018

UniQuest, The University of Queensland’s commercialization company, is leading Australia and competing globally in creating spin-out companies based on academic intellectual prop...Read more

Melbourne-based Company to invest more than £3M in Wales

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 25 May, 2018

A Melbourne-based life science research and development company has invested more than £3 million in Wales. The move comes as part of a deal by Medical Ethics, a firm which develops ...Read more

Startup Indee Labs raises $2.6 M in seed funding

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 21 May, 2018

Indee Labs has announced that it has received $2.6 million in venture financing extending its seed-stage funding to more than $5.4M (AU$7.1M). The funding will be used to accelerate th...Read more

Australian Government signs J Roughhead for the clinical trials campaign

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 17 May, 2018

The Turnbull Government is launching a national awareness campaign to get to get more Australians into ground-breaking clinical trials, opening up access to life-saving new medicines and tr...Read more

Researchers reduce childhood asthma with tailored intervention

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 17 May, 2018

Asthma is one of the most common childhood diseases and impacts children’s quality of life, leaving them more susceptible to growth delays and at higher risk of developing learning di...Read more

Australia allocates $393 M to Nanotechnology & Genomics

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 15 May, 2018

After recommendations by an expert group led by the chief scientist, Alan Finkel, the federal government in Australia released its response and allocated funding to its research prioritites...Read more

Experts team up during Pneumonia Awareness Week

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 14 May, 2018

Researchers, doctors and patients have teamed with Lung Foundation Australia during this week’s Pneumonia Awareness Week to call for proactive community action to address the dec...Read more

NeuClone Announces Preclinical Results for Stelara Biosimilar Candidate

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 11 May, 2018

Australian biopharmaceutical company NeuClone has announced positive preclinical results of its biosimilar to Johnson & Johnson's Stelara, including 3-dimensional (3-D) structure confir...Read more

Strides, Apotex merge their Australian business

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 10 May, 2018

India based Strides has inked a deal with Apotex, to merge their respective Australian business operations. The merged entity will be the largest generic drugmaker in Australia.  Stri...Read more

Cellmid inks deal with China's Fukangren Bio-pharm

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 02 May, 2018

Australia based Cellmid has recently announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Advangen Limited (“Advangen”) has entered into an exclusive agreement with Beijing Fukangren Bio-...Read more

Medibio launches corporate mental health platform

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 01 May, 2018

Mental health technology company, Medibio has launched the Company’s Corporate Mental Health for business product and platform. The Platform allows businesses to offer employees the ...Read more

Starpharma completes US New Drug Application for VivaGel BV

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 30 Apr, 2018

Australian pharma giant Starpharma  today announced that its rolling new drug application (NDA)i for VivaGel BV including two indications, for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis (BV)...Read more

Dubai, Australia tie up for cancer research

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 25 Apr, 2018

The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Council of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute) to hel...Read more

Tandem announces Australia, New Zealand distribution deals

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2018

Singapore - Tandem Diabetes Care, a medical device company and manufacturer of the only touchscreen insulin pumps available in the United States, announced that it has entered into distribu...Read more

Indee Labs receives funding for revolutionary gene therapy

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2018

MTPConnect and the Minister for Health, the Hon Greg Hunt MP, recently announced that Indee Labs will be receiving grant funding of nearly A$1 million from the Australian Government's A$35 ...Read more

SpeeDx, Serosep sign distribution agreement

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 23 Apr, 2018

Australia based SpeeDx has announced a distribution agreement with Serosep Ltd, a leading manufacturer and distributor of laboratory diagnostic solutions. This will strengthen sales channel...Read more