Applications open on 2nd May and close on 3rd June. Through the Healthcare Activator program, Texas Medical Center (TMC) and Austrade are seeking to provide a pathway for exceptional Australian medtech and digital health businesses to access the US market. With the help of TMC's clinical and commercial partners, companies selected through the Healthcare Activator will be given the opportunity to spend 6 months at TMC, establishing a presence and being able to grow their busi

A medical device innovator, entrepreneur and leader with over 20 years of research, development and operational experience, Dr Shapley was instrumental in the inception, development, formation, and financing of Cellnovo. As a biochemist and mechanical design engineer, and following post-doctoral experience within university and commercial development, Julian developed the founding technologies within the Cellnovo system, led cross-functional teams from ideation through to re

The final round of Perth's iPREP Biodesign for 2021 has come to an end with great outcomes achieved across the board. The round was met with excellent feedback by students and partners, opened doors to prospective employment opportunities and tackled company R&D challenges! Five local organizations took on a team of PhD students to help them solve an unmet need. This round saw 14 PhD students spend 7 weeks working on an industry problem and received weekly mentorship by Perth

Biodesign Innovation Melbourne kicked many impressive goals this year, due to the incredible efforts of the dedicated individuals and organisations involved. Congratulations to the teaching team, David Grayden, Kwanghui Lim and Simon Wilkins and the army of guest speakers, panelists, alumni and donors who contributed to making the Biodesign program a huge success for 2021. Biodesign Innovation Melbourne is a postgraduate unit at the University of Melbourne . Over a nine-month

The medical technology and pharmaceutical sector shone brightly at this year’s WA Innovator of the Year Awards. Four of the six awards were taken home by medtech companies, applauding some of the most cutting-edge innovations in the state. Delivered under the New Industries Fund by the Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation on behalf of the WA State Government, the WA Innovator of the Year program proudly encourages and celebrates innovation originating in Wester

Team Sirius won the judges’ prize at the 2021 Perth Biodesign Final Presentations for their monitoring technology that aims to protect our smallest and most vulnerable patients from avoidable injuries associated with peripheral intravenous catheters. Premature babies rely on intravenous (IV) therapy to receive essential lifesaving treatment, but while IV infusion is necessary it is not without risk of injury caused by unintended leakage of fluid into the surrounding tissue.

The first round of iPREP Biodesign for 2021 has come to an end with great outcomes achieved across the board! The round was met with excellent feedback by students and partners, opened doors to many prospective employment opportunities and even resulted in job offers for some students! Five local healthcare and agricultural companies took on a team of PhD students to help them solve an unmet need. This round saw 15 PhD students spend 7 weeks working on an industry problem and

Digital Health start-up Charli has taken first prize at the first ever 2020 Perth Biodesign for Digital Health Final Presentations for their AI matchmaking app for psychologists and clients. Over the years, research has confirmed what many psychologists and psychiatrists have known intuitively, that the therapeutic relationship itself is the most important factor in determining successful treatment. But for people only starting out on their journey of seeking treatment for me

A team who designed a medical device to improve the health of dialysis patients has won the inaugural Biodesign Sydney challenge led by Sydney Local Health District and the University of Sydney. The team created a 3D printed prototype for a tool called Dia-line. “This device will allow dialysis patients to easily and safely connect the dialysis line to their catheter line,” the team’s leader, Rebecca Chen, an Associate Lecturer in Oral Health Therapy at Sydney Dental School s

Melbourne medtech startup Navi Medical Technology has secured just shy of $400,000 in government grant funding to launch the next phase of development of its tech that helps critically ill newborns. The $396,452 grant funding brings the startup’s total funding secured to $1.7 million, following about $1.15 million in angel and venture capital investment, including from Artesian, and about $150,000 from pitching competitions. Founded in 2016, Navi is creating a device using el

Can innovation be taught? Dr Matt Oldakowski, an entrepreneur, researcher at Curtin University and co-director of Perth Biodesign, runs an intensive six-month program that teams engineers with researchers, business professionals and clinicians. He answers the question in the affirmative. Before heading the program, Oldakowski and course co-director Intan Oldakowska spent five months in Stanford University’s renowned Biodesign Global Faculty in Training program, learning the B

Medical device start-up JR-TeCH, creators of eMotionGait, a wearable technology for prostheses, has taken first prize at the 2018 Perth Biodesign Pitch Night, presented by Accelerating Australia. For above knee amputees, prescribing a suitable prosthetic is a difficult process and it can be even more difficult for the wearer to determine that their prosthesis is the cause of discomfort, instability, and a high falls-risk. This leads to 11-22% of patients abandoning their pros

It's been an exciting week for medtech innovation in Adelaide with the launch of the Bridgetech program , the Ausmedtech conference and now the inaugural Adelaide biodesign course launched on Thursday 3rd May featuring special guest speaker, Dr Leanna Read, Chief Scientist for South Australia! The Perth Biodesign course has now been running for two years with great success, having now trained 53 clinicians, engineers, business professionals and researchers in the process of

The 2018 Perth Biodesign course was officially launched on Wednesday 28th March, with an event at the Centre for Entrepreneurial Research and Innovation featuring talks from 2017 SPARK Co-Lab Design Course alumni as well as world leading burns specialist and medtech entrepreneur, Dr Fiona Wood. Perth Biodesign is the new name for the course that has previously been run as the SPARK Co-Lab Design Course, and will run as a partnership between Accelerating Australia and SPARK C

Medical device start-up NIMo (Non-Invasive Monitoring), creators of a wearable technology solution for the non-invasive self-management of chronic disease, has taken first prize at the SPARK Co-Lab 2017 Design Course Pitch Night, presented by Accelerating Australia. With their focus on a biomarker-based solution to bring relief to sufferers of chronic illness such as inflammatory bowel disease, NIMo was one of six teams who presented at SPARK Co-Lab’s second annual Pitch Nigh