Tag: MedTech

Qld defies climate tech slowdown with $78m in startup deals

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
Queensland’s climate tech sector remains resilient despite national volatility in venture capital funding, recording strong investment activity last financial year, according to a new report. Data from Cut Through...

Aspiring Adelaide chipmaker secures US patent

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Adelaide-based semiconductor developer Archer Materials has secured a United States patent for its graphene biochip technology, allowing the local company to start working with American device partners on a...

Telix Pharmaceuticals in $73m US IP, infrastructure buy-up

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Melbourne-headquartered Telix Pharmaceuticals has expanded its United States presence with the acquisition of $73 million in proprietary technology and a research facility from Californian BioTech firm ImaginAb. Telix announced...

Synchron beats a successful path from lab to market

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Melbourne-based Professor Nicholas Opie has been a superstar exemplar among Australia’s deep tech entrepreneur researchers for more than a decade. Professor Opie is a co-founder of the brain-computer interface...

Ian Meredith: Charting a course to global markets

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia’s MedTech sector is a sleeping giant. National strengths in genomic medicine, digital health and precision medicine, along with lighthouses like Cochlear and a pipeline of promising startups, all...

Lauren Barber takes home Innovation Leadership Award

Posted on   |  by Stuart Mason
Clinical nurse turned entrepreneur Lauren Barber has won the Innovation Leadership Award at the InnovationAus 2024 Awards for Excellence for her pioneering work founding and developing MedTech startup NeedleCalm. ...

Navbit wins HealthTech gong for hip surgery tech

Posted on   |  by Stuart Mason
Sydney-based medtech startup Navbit Sprint has won the HealthTech category at the InnovationAus 2024 Awards for Excellence for its compact tech solution making hip replacements safer and cheaper.  The...

Vaxxas granted licence to develop new needle-free vaccine

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Brisbane-based vaccine patch company Vaxxas is developing the first room temperature-stable needleless vaccine for one of the world’s most common cold-like diseases, weeks after launching efforts to raise $100...

HealthTech needs an international roadmap for local success

Posted on   |  by Ben Constable
Just as a savvy startup founder would position her novel product offering against a market unmet need, confirmed with objective market data, so we in Australia’s healthcare innovation ecosystem...