News Directory
Keep up to date with MTPConnect news and events, updated regularly. If you have news or events the sector would be interested to hear about, please let us know at media@mtpconnect.org.au.
News
02 August 2021
Introducing Dr Meghana Kulkarni Project Manager AAMRNet
MTPConnect is pleased to announce the appointment of Meghana Kulkarni as project manager with our Australian Antimicrobial Resistance Network, AAMRNet.
19 July 2021
Dr Amanda Ruth Appointed as 2021 Guest of the Chair
MTPConnect congratulates Dr Amanda Ruth who has been appointed as its next Guest of the Chair.
19 July 2021
Get on the front foot with Quality Management Systems training
Powered by MTPConnect’s REDI initiative, SeerPharma is delivering four new courses to help researchers and companies implement quality management systems and gain accreditations for Good Laboratory Practices and medical product manufacturing.
16 July 2021
REDI Launches Industry Course Booklet
Just launched! Take a look at REDI's Training and Development Programs booklet highlighting more than 25 opportunities from our 13 partners.
12 July 2021
Can the STEP-UP Program help with your research challenge?
Is your business facing a research challenge that would benefit from insights from some of Australia's leading researchers from the Faculty of Science and more broadly across the University of Melbourne?
08 July 2021
REDI Bridge and BridgeTech Industry Fellowships announced
Twenty pharmaceutical and MedTech researchers, entrepreneurs and innovators from around Australia have been awarded with industry-based fellowships to boost skills and advance their research or technology towards commercialisation.
07 July 2021
In Case You Missed It: Here’s What The MTPConnect Team Has Been Up To In June
Check out what MTPConnect got up to this month!
01 July 2021
Applications open for Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI) grants
Applications are now open for the Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI), part of the Australian Government’s $1.5 billion Modern Manufacturing Strategy.
30 June 2021
Drug Repurposing: Building the Path to Australian Success
Today we launch our latest report, a discussion paper – ‘Drug Repurposing: Building the Path to Australian Success’ – that explores the drug repurposing landscape in Australia and just what it will take to deliver more repurposed drugs in ways that improve people’s health.
24 June 2021
Let’s do more for Australians with diabetes and cardiovascular disease
Our Targeted Translation Research Accelerator (TTRA) initiative is currently engaging with the sector to identify unmet needs relating to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, or management of diabetes and / or cardiovascular disease. We are reaching out to researchers, healthcare and medical professionals, industry stakeholders and those with knowledge of the lived experience of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
16 June 2021
Successful COSA Tele-Trial Model implemented to help remote cancer patients across Australia
Access to clinical trials for people diagnosed with cancer is a core component of providing optimal cancer care through specialist cancer centres, hospitals and other treatment facilities. Patients living outside of major metropolitan centres face many barriers in accessing clinical trials.
03 June 2021
In Case You Missed It: Here’s What The MTPConnect Team Has Been Up To in May
Check out what MTPConnect got up to this month!
31 May 2021
Join our June WA MTP Sector Spotlight Series Event
Our next Perth-based event, set for 30 June, will feature a double act with Dr Simon Graindorge, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, IP Group Australia (and OncoRes Medical's COO) and Epichem’s CEO and Managing Director Colin LeGalia