Qld’s new industry fund backs cutting-edge cancer treatment


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

Queensland’s $181 million sovereign industry fund is backing projects manufacturing cancer treatment therapies and the state’s first semi-automated sterile fill and finish platform in its initial biomedicine investments announced on Saturday.

An AdvanCell project secured $15 million for its project to commercially manufacture Thorium-228, the critical upstream isotope in targeted alpha therapies that can selectively destroy cancer cells.

The targeted approach has shown fewer side effects compared to traditional cancer …

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