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Digital health scale-up program accepting applications
Applications open for digital health companies to join ANDHealth+
Illumina boosts medical innovation for Aussie startups with a $5m genomics facility
A new facility has opened in Melbourne's Biomedical Precinct to help advance the use of genomics in healthcare and agriculture in Australia.
Victorian Angel Group to invest up to $2m in healthtech startups after LaunchVic funding
Australian Medical Angels will launch a dedicated Victorian branch and invest up to $2 million in ten early-stage healthtech startups.
Medtronic invites Australian SMEs for collaboration to expand their development of MedTech solutions
The Medtronic APAC Innovation Challenge is accepting submissions now until 26 November 2021.
Government secures 25m Moderna doses in bid to diversify vaccine portfolio
The government has snapped up 25 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine as part of its strategy to give Australians access to a variant vaccine.
Faster global vaccine rollout could boost Australia’s economy by $17bn: KPMG
A new analysis by KPMG has revealed that a faster international rollout of vaccines could boost the Australian economy by $17bn and generate up to 40,000 jobs.
First COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Australia ahead of national rollout
More than 142,000 Pfizer vaccines have arrived in Sydney with the rollout set to begin on Monday, 22 February in Australia.
Brisbane bio-tech firm lands $302 million U.S. contract for at-home COVID tests
A very big move for Brisbane-based digital diagnostics company Ellume …
Epichem: Keeping Australians safe through science
As Australia’s leading provider of synthetic and medicinal chemistry services, Epichem met the challenges of COVID-19 head on, by protecting its business and employees while supporting the community and launching new innovations. Founded in Perth in 2003, Epichem creates specialised products and provide technical expertise to customers in more than 40 countries in the pharmaceutical, […]
Regional company pivots to manufacture COVID-19 face masks
As COVID-19 wreaked havoc nationally and demand for safety equipment grew, Victoria’s regional medical device manufacturer Care Essentials pivoted its focus to produce a range of PPE products, surgical face masks and N95 respirators. “Our decision to explore making PPE masks came because we kept receiving calls from hospitals, federal and state departments asking if […]
Advice for young wanna-be entrepreneurs from Peta Shulman
When Peta Shulam was only 25 when she came up with the simple concept of sampling health foods. Her passion for finding these products led to her creating the largest health food sampling service in Australia, GoodnessMe Box, where for just $25 her clients can sample 7-10 full sized products, allowing those products to be […]
Crowdfunding tips from Audeara headphones founder
Dr James Fielding founded Audeara Headphones in 2014 with Dr Chris Jeffrey – two doctors who saw patients with hearing issues and decided to act to solve a problem. In the public system, the wait for an appointment could be six months or longer – and then people could be turned away because they didn’t […]
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