Tag: mtpconnect

Closing Australia’s medtech gap starts with procurement

Posted on   |  by Suzanne Prescott
Australia has spent years asking how to produce more world-class healthcare innovation. A more urgent question is now emerging: why are so few of those innovations making it into Australian...

MTPConnect names first 2026 cohort for medtech accelerator

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Seven Victorian startups developing healthcare solutions ranging from 4D lung imaging to AI-enabled bedsore prevention will join MTPConnect’s capability accelerator program, which is exploring a tilt into other states....

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...

‘Mines to medicine’: Push for new SA nuclear industry

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Cutting edge cancer diagnosis and treatments could be produced, trialled and exported from South Australia using the waste from locally mined uranium, according to a new report claiming the...

Superbugs loom in antimicrobial innovation gap

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Australia’s MedTech and Pharmaceutical industry growth centre MTPConnect is warning antimicrobial resistant ‘superbugs’ could cause 10,000 deaths annually by 2050 if immediate action to correct a research and development...

MTPConnect commercialisation program opens soon

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The final round of a clinical translation and commercialisation program for SMEs delivered by federal government’s MedTech and pharmaceutical growth centre MTPConnect will open for expressions of interest on...

$4.5 million in fellowships for MedTech and BioTech stars

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Australia’s Industry Growth Centre for MedTech and pharmaceuticals has awarded 18 new industry fellowships to provide researchers, clinicians, and other professionals with commercial experience. The $32 million Researcher Exchange...