medical manufacturing

An additional $35.5 million in funding will support a locally based vaccine manufacturing industry in Queensland via the Translational Research Institute. 

Under the Modern Manufacturing Initiative, the federal government has announced $23 million in support for the Australian Precision Medicine Enterprise. 

A new $3 million Medtech Manufacturing Capability Program has been announced by the Victorian state government to expand local production and aid in fast-tracking manufacturers’ medtech ideas. 

A new study led by a senior research fellow at the University of Western Australia (UWA) has found fluorescence imaging technology, an advanced diagnostic device which allows clinicians to see into the wound, can increase the detection of infection at a surgical site by 11-fold. 

The Victorian government has announced the largest dedicated mRNA research grant program ever seen in Australia, the $21 million mRNA Victoria Activation Program (mAP), to help grow research, development and manufacturing capabilities around the vaccine. 

Numedico Technologies, an Adelaide-based medical device manufacturer, has announced an estimated $7.48 million distribution partnership with PBC Medicals in the UAE, for their retractable safety syringes – ClickZip. 

Synthetic biology company, Ginkgo Bioworks, will establish an office in Melbourne to bolster Victoria’s focus in mRNA research and manufacturing. 

Tweed Heads-based company AirPhysio, a respiratory health device manufacturer, has been crowned NSW Exporter of the Year at the 2021 Premier’s NSW Export Awards on 24 October.  

Care Essentials, a medical manufacturing company based in Geelong, Victoria, is being supported under the Regional Jobs Fund to create 100 new jobs and scale-up the manufacture of their specialised warming blankets. 

NSW is set to lead Australia with a first-of-its-kind pilot facility to develop mRNA and RNA drugs and vaccines, to combat disease and save lives. 

A new manufacturing facility will be built at Lucas Heights in Sydney as part of a $30 million federal government project to produce vital nuclear medicines. 

Neo-Bionica, a new facility opening at St Vincents Hospital, will fast-track the time it takes to develop and trial medical devices, including new treatments for people with diabetes. 

The $4 million Faster, Smarter Pharma and Food Manufacturing Project will help drive digital innovation in Victoria’s medicine and food manufacturing industries. 

Research conducted by University of Queensland UQ Diamantina Institute professor Di Yu has found a potential improved treatment for two of the leading causes of blindness – age and diabetes-related eye problems. 

Agriculture Victoria scientists have used advanced DNA analysis to unlock the genetic code of medicinal cannabis, enabling more effective health products to be manufactured for people suffering from epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and cancer. 

Researchers at Monash University have developed an oxygen conversion unit that can be built from local materials, which will enable doctors to provide life-saving oxygen treatment, particularly in India. 

BiomeBank, South Australian biotechnology company, has submitted its world-first biologic drug product to the Therapeutic Goods Administration for market authorisation. 

RMIT University researchers have developed smart wound dressings with built-in nanosensors which glow to alert patients when a wound is not healing properly.  The multifunctional, antimicrobial dressings feature fluorescent sensors that glow brightly under UV light if infection starts to set in and can be used to monitor healing progress.    The smart dressings harness the powerful antibacterial … Continue reading Smart wound dressings with healing sensors developed by RMIT →

Monash University researchers have developed a fast, cheap tape-paper sensor test to detect bilirubin in jaundiced newborns, which could be commercialised for point-of-care diagnosis of neonatal jaundice.  The joint development by Monash University’s Faculty of Engineering, the Monash Institute of Medical Engineering and Monash Health, aims to provide results in under 10 minutes at a cost of around 60 cents each.  The small volume of samples … Continue reading Tape-paper sensor test by Monash could detect jaundice in infants →

Micro-X has won the Land Forces 2021 National Innovation Award for inventing and manufacturing Rover, a lightweight go-anywhere x-ray machine optimised for high intensity use in field hospitals and remote locations.  Military doctors aim to provide combat soldiers with no less a standard of medical care than they expect at home. However conventional, hospital-grade mobile x-ray … Continue reading Micro-X wins award for CNT mobile medical x-ray →