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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.

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30 October 2023

Applause 2023: Celebrate SA’s Health and Medical Innovation Achievements in 2023

Join the SA Adelaide Intermediary Program's final event of the year, celebrating South Australia's Health and Medical Innovation achievements with Applause 2023!

30 October 2023

REDI-backed AUSCEP Celebrates A Year Of Success For Australian Clinical Entrepreneurs

The Australian Clinical Entrepreneur Program recently published its first AUSCEP Impact Report 2023: Bridging the Gap for Healthcare Start-ups and is celebrating a year of success for its first cohort of Australian Clinical Entrepreneurs. AUSCEP is made possible under MTPConnect’s REDI initiative supported by the MRFF.

27 October 2023

BioForum – New Frontiers: Rethinking Antimicrobial Resistance

Join BioMelbourne Network for an important discussion during World Antimicrobial Awareness Week on the rise of drug-resistant infections. Explore this urgent threat to our health security and what can be done about it now and into the future.

27 October 2023

TTRA News: MRFF funding boost targets First Nations health and wellbeing

MTPConnect, the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Hon. Mark Butler MP, and the Assistant Minister for Indigenous Health, Senator the Hon. Malarndirri McCarthy, today announced $6 million in funding from the Targeted Translation Research Accelerator (TTRA) program for new diabetes and cardiovascular disease research projects that address the unmet health and medical needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in rural, remote, regional and urban centres. These efforts will support six projects in the Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.

24 October 2023

PTA Academy: New TGA Training Course

Pathology Technology Australia has developed a range of new education courses as part of the PTA Academy, for the Australian IVD community. Coming up, Michelle McNiven will deliver a three day TGA Training session in Sydney in November - register now!

23 October 2023

WA Life Sciences Innovation Hub Spotlights 2023 With End Of Year Event

Join the WA Life Sciences Innovation Hub in celebrating the achievements of the WA health and medical life sciences community at its end-of-year event, 'Spotlight on 2023'.

20 October 2023

Team Australia Networks with LA Healthcare Market at The Medtech Conference

As thousands in the medical technology sector headed to Anaheim, California for The MedTech 2023 Conference, MTPConnect was making sure that companies joining the Australian delegation were given multiple opportunities to showcase their capabilities and make valuable US and international connections.

17 October 2023

CTCM Team Visits Awardee CathRx for Kick-Off Project Meeting

Our Clinical Translation and Commercialisation Medtech (CTCM) program team travelled to Sydney recently to visit Round 2 awardee CathRx Limited, a medical device company developing a pioneering pulsed field ablation system for treatment of Atrial Fibrillation, a widespread heart rhythm disorder that can lead to blood clots and strokes.

12 October 2023

Could our water be making medicine less effective?

A White Paper on minimising antimicrobial resistance in water has been released following a government and industry roundtable held in Canberra earlier this year, co-presented by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, CSIRO, CRC-SAAFE, representatives from MTPConnect's Australian Antimicrobial Resistance Network and Shawview Consulting.

06 October 2023

In Case You Missed It: Here’s What The MTPConnect Team Has Been Up To in September

Check out what MTPConnect got up to in September!

05 October 2023

ARIA Research Wins 2023 Australian Technologies Competition

The Overall Winner of 2023 Australian Technology Company of the Year Award was ARIA Research. The Sydney based startup also took out the top spot in the MTPConnect-sponsored Medtech and Pharma Award Category, announced at a recent event in Sydney.

27 September 2023

REDI Fellowship To Help Australians Breathe Easier

MTPConnect launched the Researcher Exchange and Development within Industry (REDI) Fellowship Program in 2020 and since then the program has gone from strength to strength. One good example to show how academia and industry have benefitted through the program is the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Medicine and Health – with no less than six academics from the faculty securing the highly sought after fellowships since the program began. Find out more.

25 September 2023

Early Stage Startups Can Apply to Join MedTech Actuator Origin!

MedTech Actuator Origin is an early-stage innovation program that turbocharges the development of emerging human health technologies and the across Australia and Asia-Pacific. Apply by 20 October for this in-person program, based in Melbourne.

19 September 2023

Announcing Australia's Delegation to The Medtech Conference in Anaheim

We are delighted to announce that 15 Australian companies and organisations are taking part in the Australian delegation to The MedTech Conference in Anaheim, California and will be profiling their products or services at the standout Australian Pavilion exhibit at the Anaheim Convention Center in early October.

18 September 2023

Join Adelaide Intermediary Program for SA Insights featuring Micro-X

Join MTPConnect's Adelaide team for an evening of insights into the world of medtech innovation at the upcoming SA Insights event featuring Micro-X on Thursday 26 October. This event offers a unique opportunity to delve deeply into the remarkable journey of Micro-X, a pioneering player in the medtech sector.