Moderna Australia names CSIRO’s Dr Anne Klein as 2025 Fellow for advanced AI mRNA packaging project
Posted: 25 November 2025 Moderna Australia announced it has awarded the 2025 Moderna Australia Fellowship to Dr Anne Klein of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The annual initiative was designed to support emerging Australian scientists…
BioMelbourne Network AGM 2025: Connection, continuity and a clear path forward
Posted: 24 November 2025 BioMelbourne Network members, partners and supporters gathered high above Docklands at KPMG’s Tower Two for the 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) and networking event – an evening that blended strong governance with a clear…
Applications open for 2025-26 Premier’s Awards for Health and Medical Research
Posted: 21 November 2025 Applications are now open for the 2025-26 Premier’s Awards for Health and Medical Research (2025-26 Awards). Proudly supported by the Victorian Government, the awards recognise Victoria’s most talented early career health and medical researchers,…
CUREator BioMedTech Incubator funding round closing soon, offering up to $5 million per therapeutic project
Posted: 21 November 2025 CUREator BioMedTech Incubator has issued a final call for applications, with Expressions of Interest for the 2025 funding round set to close on Thursday 4 December 2025 at 2pm AEDT. Delivered in partnership with…
Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery marked major milestone with partner celebration event
Posted: 19 November 2025 The Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery (ACMD) marked a historic milestone, as partners, supporters and guests gathered to recognise the creation of Australia’s first hospital-integrated biomedical engineering research and education hub. Held ahead of…
ANDHealth to host ACTIVATE program to showcase to strengthen digital health collaboration
Posted: 18 November 2025 ANDHealth will be hosting a major showcase and networking event to present the 2025 ACTIVATE accelerator cohort, bringing Victoria’s digital and connected health ecosystem together for a structured morning of collaboration. The event is…
RMIT University unveils promising blood test to more accurately guide Ovarian Cancer treatment
Posted: 14 November 2025 A new blood test designed to better guide ovarian cancer therapy was reported to have shown strong promise, after researchers identified a simple way to determine which women were more likely to benefit from…
MTPConnect secures Australian representation on global WHO AMR task force
Posted: 14 November 2025 MTPConnect was positioned at the forefront of international antimicrobial resistance (AMR) advocacy, following the selection of its Australian Antimicrobial Resistance Network (AAMRNet) to join the World Health Organization (WHO) Civil Society Task Force on…
Lindo awarded $2 million grant to advance infection-prevention medical device
Posted: 13 November 2025 Lindo has been awarded $2 million in matched funding through the Australian Government’s Industry Growth Programme, enabling progress on its antimicrobial blue-light endotracheal device. “Collaborations like this are essential for translating innovation into practical…
Biointelect Venturer to launch to drive vaccine and infectious disease innovation
Posted: 11 November 2025 Australia’s new national incubator for vaccine and infectious disease innovation, Biointelect Venturer, will officially launch on 17 November 2025, backed by $32.9 million in funding from the Australian Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)…
Noxopharm awarded NSW Government TechVoucher grant for UNSW collaboration
Posted: 11 November 2025 Clinical-stage biotechnology company Noxopharm Limited has been awarded a $25,000 NSW Government TechVoucher grant to support a joint research project with UNSW Sydney exploring the potential of its Sofra™ technology platform. The TechVouchers program…
Australian Red Cross Lifeblood launches Circularity Challenge to tackle medical waste
Posted: 11 November 2025 Australian Red Cross Lifeblood has launched its Lifeblood Circularity Challenge, an open innovation initiative seeking creative, scalable solutions to reduce the environmental impact of single-use plastics in healthcare. The challenge calls for ideas that…
