Lilly's Kisunla receives marketing authorisation in Australia for treatment of early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease

Eli Lilly and Company has announced that the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has granted marketing aut...

May 23, 2025 | Friday | News
Australia's Kailo Medical acquires REI AI to transform future of radiology reporting

Australia-based Kailo Medical, a global leader in structured reporting for medical imaging, has announced its acquisitio...

May 22, 2025 | Thursday | News
Australia pioneers AI method to improve dementia diagnosis

Researchers from the National Centre for Healthy Ageing (NCHA), a partnership between Monash University and Peninsula He...

May 20, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Targeting inflammation at the source: VX-01 aims to redefine NPDR treatment with first oral therapy

Patients with non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) currently face a therapeutic gap—one that often leaves...

May 16, 2025 | Friday | News
Curaleaf International launches range of medical cannabis products in Australia

American firm Curaleaf International, part of Curaleaf Holdings, Inc., has announced the launch of Curaleaf branded prod...

May 15, 2025 | Thursday | News
Australia announces over $79 M investment towards clinical trials and cohort studies

Administered through the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) Clinical Trials and Cohort St...

May 14, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Why microneedle technology could be the breakthrough that transforms vaccine access

As an infectious diseases’ physician, clinical researcher and microbiologist, I have seen first-hand how new techn...

May 10, 2025 | Saturday | Opinion
AusBiotech and ANDHealth partner to foster sector connection in digital health

AusBiotech, Australia’s leading national industry body representing more than 3,000 life sciences members, has sig...

May 6, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Australia to announce nation’s first clinical care guideline for motor neurone disease

University of Adelaide researchers have started a two-year project to develop the nation’s first clinical care gui...

May 5, 2025 | Monday | News
Australia starts world-first immunotherapy trial to treat Type 1 diabetes

Researchers at The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia have dosed 5 participants in the first clinical trial of a p...

April 30, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Care economy gets boost with new Cooperative Research Centre in Australia

Australia's growing care economy is set to be transformed by the nation's first Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) in the...

April 29, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Australia injects $238 M to host national push for next-gen therapy manufacturing

The University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia will host a $238 million industry-led research centre to accelerate indus...

April 28, 2025 | Monday | News
A new partnership between University of Melbourne and Thermo Fisher Scientific

Researchers will be able to access cutting-edge tools to tackle society’s most pressing challenges across healthca...

April 21, 2025 | Monday | News
Scientists at University of Queensland tests vaccine response in ‘moonshot’ challenge

Australia's Queensland researchers are attempting to create a vaccine in just 150 days to prove how far their response c...

April 16, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Australian startup AdvanCell gets $18M funding for defeating prostate cancer with targeted alpha therapy

AdvanCell, a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company developing innovative cancer therapeutics, has announced $18 mil...

April 14, 2025 | Monday | News
Australia makes $82 M investment to tackle health worker shortage

A new $82 million clinical teaching building at La Trobe University will help relieve Australia’s chronic allied h...

April 10, 2025 | Thursday | News
Australia invests $7 M to establish first atrial fibrillation ablation clinical quality registry

A ground-breaking step to improve cardiac care in Australia has been taken, as funding is announced for a clinical quali...

April 8, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Organoid Innovation Centre launches in Sydney to accelerate personalised medicines

The new NSW Organoid Innovation Centre (NSWOIC) opened in Sydney, Australia will provide reliable and reproduc...

April 4, 2025 | Friday | News
Shionogi inks commercial deal for Cefiderocol in Australia and New Zealand

Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi & Co. has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Link Medical P...

April 3, 2025 | Thursday | News
Australia invests $35 M to establish health & tech research and innovation centre

Griffith University is set to transform health and advanced technology innovation with the establishment of the Health a...

April 2, 2025 | Wednesday | News
“AI will shift the focus of healthcare professionals toward higher-value tasks like clinical decision-making”

Can you share more about Harrison.ai’s mission and how your AI-powered medical imaging and diagnostic solutions ar...

March 31, 2025 | Monday | Opinion
University of Hyderabad and Flinders University cement partnership in healthcare

The University of Hyderabad (UoH), India and Australia's Flinders University have entered into a landmark strategic part...

March 27, 2025 | Thursday | News
Xcellbio announces new partnership in Australia to improve potency for rapid cell therapy manufacturing

Xcell Biosciences Australia Pty Ltd, an Australian affiliate of the San Francisco-based instrumentation company focused ...

March 26, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Australia lays focus on nanotechnology to improve odds in treating aggressive breast cancers

University of Queensland researchers are designing nanotechnology they believe could improve how we treat the most aggre...

March 25, 2025 | Tuesday | News
US-based Alamar Biosciences expands commercial support in Asia Pacific region

Alamar Biosciences, a US-based company powering precision proteomics to enable the earliest detection of disease, has an...

March 20, 2025 | Thursday | News
Australia's Illuccix receives approval for prostate cancer imaging in Brazil

Australia-based Telix Pharmaceuticals has announced that the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Agencia Nacional d...

March 19, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Proteomics International launches predictive test for diabetic kidney disease in Australia

Proteomics International Laboratories, a pioneer in precision diagnostics, has announced the launch of its first...

March 18, 2025 | Tuesday | News
LVPEI receives Australian patent for novel stem cell therapy

The L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), Hyderabad, India has been granted an Australian patent for a novel cell therapy th...

March 14, 2025 | Friday | News
Australian govt invests $20 M to expand country's largest and only onshore manufacturer of IV fluids

The Albanese Labor Government is building Australia’s future by investing in an expansion of Australia’s ons...

March 7, 2025 | Friday | News
Avecho and Sandoz announce $16 M deal to commercialise CBD for insomnia treatment in Australia

Avecho Biotechnology has signed an exclusive ten-year development and licensing agreement with Sandoz Group AG for the c...

March 5, 2025 | Wednesday | News
World-first experimental cancer treatment paves way for clinical trial in Australia

A peer-reviewed paper detailing the experimental cancer treatment developed by Professor Georgina Long AO, Universi...

March 4, 2025 | Tuesday | News
A Wake-Up Call for International Women’s Day

It is never lost on me or my team at MTPConnect that there is a paucity of funding allocated to women’s health res...

March 1, 2025 | Saturday | Opinion
Australia designs new rapid sensor to detect pregnancy complications

Australia's University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have developed a new rapid sensor that can detect pregnancy compli...

February 28, 2025 | Friday | News
Simbec-Orion and Avance Clinical Forge Strategic Partnership to Expand Global CRO Capabilities

This formal agreement establishes a collaborative framework between two like-minded, full-service Contract Res...

February 26, 2025 | Wednesday | News
India explores development of joint research, clinical trials, and technology-driven solutions with Queensland

Trade and Investment Queensland (TIQ), the Queensland Government’s dedicated business agency presented a 20 member...

February 26, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Australian government invests $6.7 M to expand rare cancer portal

The Albanese Labor Government is investing $6.7 million to ensure that people with rare cancers can access expert advice...

February 26, 2025 | Wednesday | News
University of Queensland to lead Australian clinical trial of next-gen ovarian cancer screening test

Clinical trials of a simple and accurate blood test to detect early-stage ovarian cancer, key to boosting survival rates...

February 24, 2025 | Monday | News
South Korea's Coreline Soft enters Australian market for lung cancer screening

South Korea-based Coreline Soft, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI)-based medical solutions, has annou...

February 21, 2025 | Friday | News
Australia approves first and only treatment for chronic hypoparathyroidism

Singapore-based biopharmaceutical company Specialised Therapeutics (ST) has received the registration of YORVIPATH&...

February 21, 2025 | Friday | News
Australia to open health leadership academy to address critical workforce challenges

A $7.5 million philanthropic donation from Dennis Bastas, CEO of DBG Health, will establish a new Health Leadership acad...

February 20, 2025 | Thursday | News
HMRI partners with Novartis Australia to supercharge heart health

The Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) has announced a new partnership with Novartis Australia, formalised through...

February 19, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Australia's largest single philanthropic investment of $50 M to transform glaucoma treatment

The Snow Medical Research Foundation is launching the Snow Vision Accelerator in partnership with the Universi...

February 18, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Qiagen strengthens global bioinformatics leadership with new centre in APAC region

Qiagen has announced the official opening of a new data centre in Melbourne, Australia, designed to strengthen its globa...

February 14, 2025 | Friday | News
Smith+Nephew introduces innovative sports medicine foot & ankle repair solutions in Australia and New Zealand

Smith+Nephew, the global medical technology company, has announced the launch of a comprehensive foot & ankle repair...

February 17, 2025 | Monday | News
Australian startup Harrison.ai secures $112 M in Series C funding round

Harrison.ai, a leading global healthtech company and developer of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered medical diagnosti...

February 13, 2025 | Thursday | News
Australian startup ENA Respiratory secures $5M to develop nasal powder against viral infections

ENA Respiratory, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing antiviral host defence immune enhancers to minimise ...

February 12, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Australia's AdvanCell partners with Lilly to develop new targeted alpha therapies for cancer treatment

AdvanCell, a radiopharmaceutical company specialising in targeted alphaherapias, has announced the expansion of the scop...

February 11, 2025 | Tuesday | News
First Australia-New Zealand clinical guidance for people living with multiple sclerosis

The first clinical consensus statement for managing multiple sclerosis (MS) in Australia and New Zealand has been releas...

February 10, 2025 | Monday | News
Australia's Genomics Framework charts new course in cancer care for future generations

The Australian government has released Cancer Australia's National Framework for Genomics in Cancer Control, marking a s...

February 6, 2025 | Thursday | News
Australia's AdvanCell closes oversubscribed Series C financing of $112 M

AdvanCell, a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company developing innovative cancer treatments, has closed an oversubsc...

February 4, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Australia announces $20 M funding boost for childhood brain cancer research

The Australian Government is investing close to $20 million in funding for researchers to support groundbreaking nationa...

February 3, 2025 | Monday | News
Australia Advances Cancer Research with Kazia’s ABC-Pax Trial for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Kazia Therapeutics Limited , an oncology-focused drug development company, has announced the regulatory approval and lau...

January 31, 2025 | Friday | News
Australian study suggests need for novel AI to be used in women’s health

Research has shown the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to assist in the diagnosis of conditions, like endomet...

January 30, 2025 | Thursday | News
Australian govt invests $11 M to fill gap in health and climate research

The Australian Government is investing almost $11 million to build Australian research capacity in climate change and re...

January 29, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Australia's Inventia announces groundbreaking advancement in 3D cell culture technology

Inventia Life Science, an innovator in 3D cell culture technologies, has announced the launch of RASTRUM Allegro, a...

January 28, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Australia's Vaxxas advances $4.8 M programme for needle-free thermostable mRNA vaccines

Vaxxas, an Australia-based clinical-stage biotechnology company commercialising a novel high-density microarray patch (H...

January 23, 2025 | Thursday | News
Australian startup Convergence Medical secures $5 M for world-first surgical robot

Brisbane-based medtech startup Convergence Medical has secured AU$5 million from global investors, closing out its succe...

January 21, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Junshi Biosciences announces Toripalimab’s approval in Australia for cancer treatment

Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., and its wholly-owned subsidiary, TopAlliance Biosciences Inc. have announced that torip...

January 20, 2025 | Monday | News
Clinical trial study by Australia & Vietnam finds antibiotic treatment for drug resistant TB effective

A clinical trial has shown that the oral antibiotic levofloxacin taken once-daily for six months substantially redu...

January 16, 2025 | Thursday | News
Australia's BioCina and NovaCina merger bolsters global CDMO industry

Global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) BioCina and NovaCina, based in Australia, have annou...

January 15, 2025 | Wednesday | News
UQ and Vaxxas in Australia win $2 M from US to advance patch-based mRNA COVID-19 vaccine

Australia-based University of Queensland’s (UQ) BASE facility, within the Australian Institute for Bioenginee...

January 14, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Australia's Telix Pharma buys next-gen therapeutic assets from ImaginAb

Australia-based Telix Pharmaceuticals has entered into an asset purchase agreement with US-based antibody engineering co...

January 13, 2025 | Monday | News
AusBiotech and BioNSW sign MoU to deepen collaboration in life sciences sector

AusBiotech, Australia’s leading national industry body representing more than 3,000 life sciences members, has for...

January 9, 2025 | Thursday | News
Businessperson of the year 2024- Dr Christian Behrenbruch (Telix Pharma)

Dr Christian Behrenbruch founded Telix Pharmaceuticals in 2015, along with Andreas Kluge, with an aim to create a truly ...

January 2, 2025 | Thursday | Analysis
Radiopharm announces strategic co-development partnership with Lantheus for Australia

Radiopharm Theranostics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative oncology radiopharm...

January 4, 2025 | Saturday | News
Australian startups receive $18.5 M to commercialise research to cure blindness, find cancer, and make childbirth safer

The Australian government is investing $18.5 million to help eight Australian startup companies to commercialise their r...

December 23, 2024 | Monday | News
Building vaccine and therapeutics manufacturing capacity in Asia Pacific

Scientists from Australia's Biomedical Manufacturing Programme are partnering with Thailand and Malaysia to en...

December 20, 2024 | Friday | News
New initiative aims to improve sleep health for millions in India and Australia

Researchers from Monash University, Australia have connected experts from India and Australia to help improve the qualit...

December 17, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Korea's SK bioscience gets approval for global clinical trials of mRNA Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine candidate

South Korea-based SK bioscience, a global innovative vaccine and biotech company, has received approval from the Human R...

December 13, 2024 | Friday | News
Major milestone for UQ spin-out’s promising MND drug in Australia

A potential new treatment for motor neurone disease (MND) developed by a company spun-out of The University of Queenslan...

December 11, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Moderna officially opens new vaccine manufacturing facility in Australia

Moderna has officially launched its new vaccine manufacturing facility at Monash University’s Clayton campus in so...

December 10, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Australia releases national action plan for dementia

The Australian government has released a historic document, the National Dementia Action Plan 2024-2034, marking commitm...

December 8, 2024 | Sunday | News
Australia's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre partners with GE HealthCare to advance cancer research

US-based GE HealthCare has announced its work with Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Australia to further develop and exp...

December 3, 2024 | Tuesday | News
World-first cream to treat skin cancer moves closer to reality

A topical cream to help prevent and treat skin cancers in organ transplant patients is a step closer to development. The...

November 30, 2024 | Saturday | News
Australian government invests $50 M towards finding cure for Type 1 diabetes

The Albanese government is supporting the next phase of the search for a cure for Type 1 Diabetes through a $50.1 millio...

November 28, 2024 | Thursday | News
“Kidney failure was the third fastest growing cause of death in 2023 exacerbated by the lack of treatments for kidney disease”

How has the company evolved since its incorporation in 2004 to develop innovative treatments for inflammatory diseases?D...

December 1, 2024 | Sunday | Opinion
Australia approves QIAGEN’s QIAcuityDx digital PCR system

QIAGEN today announced the inclusion of the QIAcuityDx digital PCR System in the Australian Register of Therapeutic...

November 26, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Australia lays focus on genomics-driven cancer prevention

Genomics-driven cancer prevention, testing and treatment strategies will be at the forefront of a new joint venture betw...

November 24, 2024 | Sunday | News
Philips and Australia's Edith Cowan University partner to elevate clinical ultrasound training in APAC

Philips, a global leader in health technology, and Edith Cowan University Australia (ECU) have announced a new strategic...

November 21, 2024 | Thursday | News
Getz Healthcare and IGEA Medical partner to introduce adaptive electroporation technologies in Australia

Getz Healthcare Australia has announced a strategic distribution agreement with IGEA Medical to introduce the Cliniporat...

November 19, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Australia to establish national body for genomics research

The Albanese Government is establishing a new national body to provide leadership, coordination and expertise so all A...

November 18, 2024 | Monday | News
AusBiotech and Life Sciences Western Australia ink first-ever MoU to deepen partnership

AusBiotech, Australia’s leading national industry body representing more than 3,000 life sciences members, and Lif...

November 13, 2024 | Wednesday | News
GenScript Biotech sets up new operations and logistics hub in Australia

GenScript Biotech Corporation, a global leader in life sciences services and products, has announced the establishment o...

November 12, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Avance Clinical’s CEO Yvonne Lungershausen on Expanding Footprint in Asia-Pacific: A Strategic Focus on South Korea’s Clinical Excellence

In a recent conversation with Ankit Kankar from BioSpectrum Asia, Yvonne Lungershausen, CEO of Avance Clinical, shared i...

November 11, 2024 | Monday | News
Australia establishes new international research lab to tackle treatment-resistant cancer

The University of Melbourne and France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) will establish a new Internation...

November 8, 2024 | Friday | News
AusBiotech and LSQ to strengthen national life sciences sector

AusBiotech, Australia’s leading national industry body representing more than 3,000 life sciences members, and Lif...

November 11, 2024 | Monday | News
Monash and Apollo Hospitals join hands to progress digital health research

Australia-based Monash University’s Faculty of Information Technology has partnered with Apollo Hospitals - one of...

November 6, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Biomedical engineers in Australia design high-speed 3D bioprinter as gamechanger for drug discovery

Biomedical engineers from the University of Melbourne, Australia have invented a 3D printing system, or bioprinter, capa...

November 4, 2024 | Monday | News
Australia enhances national skin cancer screening with $10.3 M investment

The Albanese Government is investing $10.3 million to tackle the most common cancer in the sunburnt country, skin cancer...

October 31, 2024 | Thursday | News
“The Vietnam Institute is set to play a key role in fostering regional collaborations by acting as a hub for knowledge exchange and partnerships”

What was the rationale behind choosing Vietnam as the location for this institute, and how does the country’s acad...

October 31, 2024 | Thursday | Opinion
“Australia is a great place to do business as we have a superb research community, great partners and very experienced clinical trial units”

Tell us about Noxopharm and its portfolio of innovative treatments.  We are an Australian biotech with two highly ...

October 31, 2024 | Thursday | Opinion
“Moving forward, cancer may not be a death threat but a manageable disease with strong control”

Could you explain more about the advantages of using iPSCs from cord blood for creating your ‘off-the-shelf’...

October 31, 2024 | Thursday | Opinion
Avance Clinical Strengthens Asia-Pacific Presence with Strategic MoUs in South Korea for Enhanced Clinical Research Solutions

Avance Clinical, a leading full-service Contract Research Organization (CRO), has announced three pivotal Memorandums of...

October 30, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Australia's Vaxxas licenses next-gen vaccine for Respiratory Syncytial Virus from NIH

Australia-based Vaxxas, a clinical-stage biotechnology company commercialising a novel high-density microarray patc...

October 29, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Seaport Therapeutics secures $225 M funding to develop neuropsychiatric medicines using prodrug technology

The clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, Seaport Therapeutics, which uses a unique drug delivery platform orig...

October 26, 2024 | Saturday | News
Australia's Telix spins off Rhine Pharma to expand global access to radiopharmaceuticals

Australia-based Telix Pharmaceuticals has announced the spin-off of Rhine Pharma, which has the mission of expanding glo...

October 23, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Aidoc and Integral Diagnostics expand AI partnership in Australia and New Zealand

Aidoc, a global pioneer in clinical artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, has announced the expansion of its partnersh...

October 15, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Australian partnership working towards Universal Health in the Philippines

University of Adelaide’s Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) is working with the Australia Awards Fellowships to he...

October 12, 2024 | Saturday | News
$18 M investment for world-first Australian research project for heart attack protection

The government is investing almost $18 million in a world-first Australian research project that will trial a drug disco...

October 7, 2024 | Monday | News
Indian medtech firm SMT gets Australian approval for drug-eluting stent Supraflex Cruz

SMT (Sahajanand Medical Technologies), a global leader in innovative medical devices based in India, has announced that ...

September 28, 2024 | Saturday | News

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