Tag: CSL

Handpicked Moderna’s vaccine deal costs up to $3bn

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Morrison government went against departmental advice to continue negotiating with another tenderer for a local mRNA vaccine capability and instead handed Moderna a deal that will pay the...

Review of Morrison’s Moderna deal quietly delayed

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
An audit of the federal government’s controversial deal to bring Moderna to Melbourne to manufacture vaccines has been quietly delayed by four months, pushing its findings into the summer...

CSL courts US govt with billion-dollar investment plan

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Australian biotechnology giant CSL has announced plans for a $2.3 billion expansion of its manufacturing operations in the United States as it seeks to skirt US President Donald Trump’s...

Australia’s biggest R&D companies revealed

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Atlassian, CSL and Cochlear are the biggest users of Australia’s research and development tax incentive, with the software giant alone claiming more than $200 million of activity a year,...

MTPConnect secures $28.5m for MedTech accelerator

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
A $28.5 million commercialisation boost will soon be available to MedTechs fighting heart disease and diabetes under the latest round of a Medical Research Future Fund program. The second...

$65m biotech incubator names first 16 residents

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A wearable “lab-on-a-chip” solution for hormone monitoring, a gum disease vaccine and technology for creating 3D models of human brain tissue are among the ideas that have piqued the...

Govt opens consultation on capitalising on RNA capability

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The federal government is considering further support for parts of the RNA sector after helping establish the southern hemisphere’s first commercial mRNA manufacturing capability in Melbourne. The Industry department...

CSL-backed biotech startup incubator launches

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A new biotech incubator backed by $65 million in industry and government investment has launched, offering innovative Australian startups access to a wet lab space and other facilities in...