The AUScelerate Podcast

Happy bonus episode listeners! To mark World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, the MTPConnect podcast team caught up with OUTBREAK Managing Director & Co-founder Associate Professor Branwen Morgan from the University of Technology Sydney and Distinguished Professor Antoine van Oijen, who is OUTBREAK’s Deputy Managing Director and Director of Health Programs from the University of Wollongong, to ta...

For this episode, we’re exploring the incredible benefits that can flow from connecting PhD graduates with industry. By giving researchers real-world experiences in research-intensive organisations, we can drive better commercialisation outcomes.  And it’s exactly what we’re doing as a core component of our ‘Researcher Exchange and Development within Industry’ (REDI) program - in partnership with...

The Medical Device Partnering Program (MDPP) is an ideas incubator, established in 2008, with the ambitious goal to make Australia the fastest country in the world to take a medical device to market. The program has been connecting with start-ups in Adelaide and now Victoria to develop their cutting-edge medical devices and is now expanding its services nationally across Australia with the support...

With one in five Australians living with disability, the power of technology is being harnessed to help overcome barriers. In this week’s podcast, the MTPConnect team speak to Remarkable Tech Founder Pete Horsley on supporting Australian disability tech start-ups through an inclusive 16 week accelerator program, set up by the Cerebral Palsy Alliance in NSW with corporate sponsorship and support fr...

Australian Postgraduate Research Intern (APR.Intern) connects PhD students with industry, from incubators to multinationals, through short-term internships. These opportunities empower students to thrive in a practical research environment and for businesses to innovate and be future-ready. Their program also links businesses to fresh ideas and provides pathways for universities to expand research...

The MedTech Actuator connects Australia’s broad ecosystem to empower founders to build the next wave of global MedTech, HealthTech and BioTech success stories. In 2020, the MedTech Actuator joined MTPConnect as a REDI partner to expand the focus of its medtech programs into BioTech, pharma and health and well-being. MedTech Actuator CEO Dr Buzz Palmer and CSO Dr Vishaal Kishore joined the podcast...

The Bridge and BridgeTech Programs, facilitated by QUT on behalf of a consortium of key industry partners and institutes, are nation-wide professional development programs, focussing on training Australia’s next generation of researchers and life sciences entrepreneurs by developing their commercialisation skills and industry networks. The Bridge and BridgeTech programs are partners of MTPConnect’...

To mark our involvement in the Virtual Medtech Conference 2020 in Toronto,  we hosted a special webinar with Austrade, for US and Canadian medical device companies who may benefit from running clinical trials in Australia. The session explored ‘Australia as a medical device trial destination: Maintain momentum in your clinical development program’, and focused on first-in-human / early phase cardi...

We’re patching you in to the September webinar in our 2020 Seminar Series to explore the challenges and issues specific to developing diagnostics in the Australian and global market, compared to drugs and devices.  Infectious diseases physician, Dr Jack Richards from Australian biotech ZiP Diagnostics whose team is developing and manufacturing infectious diseases diagnostics in Melbourne, shares h...

MTPConnect recently held a virtual industry roundtable to launch the formation of Australia’s first Antimicrobial Resistance Network – the AAMRNet, and released a new report, ‘Fighting Superbugs: A Report on the Inaugural Meeting of Australia’s Antimicrobial Resistance Stakeholders’, prepared by MTPConnect in partnership with Biointelect. Collaboration is the key to success and the AAMRNet aims to...

What happens when you are tasked to setup a virtual care model to meet the demand for growth in hospital services, and just as operations are launched, a pandemic emerges? The team at Sydney Local Health District – General Manager Miranda Shaw and Chief Information Officer Richard Taggart - are on the team that developed New South Wales’ first virtual hospital - RPA Virtual - which has treated mor...

In this episode, we catch up with one of our REDI partners, the George Institute for Global Health, an independent medical research institute based in Sydney. We discuss their Health10x Accelerator program and the opportunities it’s creating for Australian start-ups and entrepreneurs to deliver successful commercial ventures with maximum social impact. Dr Parisa Glass, the Director of Innovation a...

In this episode, we bring you the keynote presentation from MTPConnect Managing Director & CEO Dr Dan Grant at Innovate Health 2020.  Recent research released by MTPConnect reveals the COVID-19 health crisis has had a significant impact across the Australian MTP sector, with hits to company values, the shutdown of critical clinical trials and research labs, and the drying-up of much needed cap...

We’re patching you in to the August webinar on our 2020 Seminar Series. Hear from Dr Manuel Zander from AusIndustry in Queensland, Sue Mundy from the Australian Taxation Office in Adelaide and Dave Sammut from Access RnD Tax Solutions in Sydney, as they discuss how the R&D Tax Incentive can benefit your business, the importance of record keeping and where to find information on how to commence...

The MTPConnect podcast team – Caroline Duell and Dr Dan Grant – explore how MTPConnect’s REDI initiative is supporting the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) to extend the pilot of its successful SKILLED clinical trial internships program.  The VCCC’s Executive Director Professor Grant McArthur and the Head, Education and Training Development Michelle Barrett join us to discuss how SKILL...

This week, we speak to vaccine development expert Professor Nikolai Petrovsky from South Australia. He is the Director of Endocrinology at Flinders Medical Centre, a Professor in the School of Medicine at Flinders University and the founder of Vaxine Pty Ltd, an Adelaide-based biotechnology company specialising in pandemic vaccine design. Professor Petrovsky joins the MTPConnect podcast to update...

In this week’s episode, the MTPConnect podcast team follow the trailblazing journey of a regional founder in Australia. We speak to Anna Barwick, a Clinical Pharmacist and researcher, at the University of New England (UNE) in Armidale, NSW who is lecturing to the next generation of pharmacists, podcasting a show ‘Indispensable’ for Australians who want to know how to use their medications effectiv...

We’re patching you in to our latest webinar in the 2020 Seminar Series. Hear from A/Prof Jacqueline Alderson from UWA in Perth, Rick Wingfield from Catapult Sports in Melbourne, Dr Lee Walsh from Platypus Technical in Canberra and Dr Dan Grant from MTPConnect in Melbourne, as they discuss this emerging Knowledge Priority - biomechanics & human movement - and the growth of digital technologies...

In this week’s edition, we profile South Australia’s Chief Scientist, Professor Caroline McMillen who was recently honoured with an Order of Australia for her contribution to medical science, tertiary education, to the South Australian community and to social equity. The MTPConnect podcast team – Caroline Duell, Dr Dan Grant and Dr Rebecca Tunstall – follow her fascinating career journey from Nort...

The team at the Australian Technology of Science and Engineering, otherwise known as ATSE, joined the MTPConnect podcast to chat about the success of the one-year Industry Mentoring Network in STEM (IMNIS) program. It began as a pilot in 2015, funded by MTPConnect, and now has an extensive alumni group of over 900 members and over 500 leaders involved in mentoring Australia’s talented PhD students...

Since ANDHealth’s inception in 2017, they have been working to elevate Australia’s emerging digital health sector and support start-ups and companies to progress and find investment. The organisation’s Managing Director, CEO & Founder Bronwyn Le Grice chats to the MTPConnect podcast team – Caroline Duell and Dr Dan Grant – about their new report, ‘Digital Health: The Sleeping Giant of Australi...

We’re patching you in to our 2020 Seminar Series via our latest webinar. Hear from Boston-based CIMIT Chief Operating Officer Dr John Collins, Health Horizon Co-Founder & CEO Marcus Dawe and OncoRes Medical MD & CEO Dr Kath Giles to discuss how to best to navigate the pathways to commercialising health innovations. The team guided by our Senior Director Stakeholder Engagement Dr Rebecca Tu...

This week we bring our virtual podcast studio to WA, where our hosts Shannan Osrin and Dr Kate Brooks, check in with University of Western Australia Associate Professor Jacqueline Alderson to discuss how sports science is improving athletes performance. Jacqueline, a leading sports scientist, explains her digital twin model that uses machine learning and Artificial Intelligence to enable researche...

How is Australia progressing in the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine? The MTPConnect podcast checked in with University of Queensland’s Dr Keith Chappell and Professor Trent Munro, who are leading a research team using their patented molecular clamp technology to create a vaccine in record time. The UQ team, which includes Professor Paul Young, is the only Australian organisation backed by the C...

We are constantly finding new ways to use technology to address major healthcare challenges facing the world. In this episode, we spotlight the research efforts of Brisbane-based enterprise WearOptimo as they try and find a way to detect health issues before they become problems, like cardiac disease, inflammation and dehydration. Founder & CEO Professor Mark Kendall and Chief Technology Offic...