The AUScelerate Podcast

In today’s episode, we take you behind the scenes to the translational research facilities around Australia helping researchers take discoveries from the lab to the clinic. TIA is a national consortium of research infrastructure that enables public and private research teams to access affordable technologies and equipment to develop new therapeutics to improve human health. We chat to TIA CEO Dr S...

Advances in new technology are driving the use of real-world data to improve healthcare research, including big data analytics, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence in Australia. The MTPConnect podcast team chat to Queensland start-up DataRWE’s Chief Technology Officer Dr Kelvin Ross and Chief Executive Officer Steve Woodyatt about developing a new Precision Medicine Data Platform that gat...

Happy International Clinical Trials Day subscribers! To mark this important day, we gathered some leaders from the Australian MTP sector to discuss the power and importance of clinical trials in the discovery of new medicines and treatments for patients, a COVID-19 vaccine trial starting soon in Australia, and how important the clinical trials sector will be in contributing to Australia’s post-COV...

As COVID-19 restricts international travel and many meet ups at conventions are put on hold, our MTP sector is adapting to the challenges by doing business differently. So as the important BioKorea 2020 conference has become a digital event, Australia has pivoted with its first virtual trade mission to ensure we continue to showcase homegrown biotech talent and seek out new international markets a...

Happy bonus episode subscribers! This episode will patch you into our first webinar as part of the MTPConnect 2020 Seminar Series program, and due to COVID-19 restrictions we have had to take it online.  Hear from MTPConnect’s MD & CEO Dr Dan Grant, our MC Director Stakeholder Engagement NSW Dr Duncan Macinnis, AustCyber CEO Michelle Price, Perx Health’s Co-Founder & CEO Hugo Rourke and Fo...

Microscopy Australia, headquartered at the University of Sydney, is providing discounted access to its microscopy services through a Technical Voucher Fund for medtech R&D companies for early  stage drug discovery. It is work supported by MTPConnect, through the Australian Government’s Project Fund Program that is continuing to reduce the existing barriers to utilise these services. The podcas...

How will Australia navigate its medical research and innovation response in a world impacted by COVID-19? Our podcast team talks with economist Dr Pradeep Philip from Deloitte Access Economics about the MTP sector’s critical role in driving Australia’s COVID-19 response and recovery. Dr Philip, who’s had a distinguished career in public policy and health administration and is on the Board of the M...

Happy Thursday subscribers! This week’s edition features the Founders of two emerging Australian medtech start-ups, Tournicare's Co-Founder & CEO Niels van Sparrentak & Navi Medical Technologies’ Co-Founder & Co-CFO Brad Bergmann, who were selected as a Winner and a Finalist, respectively, in the 2019 Australian Technology Competition. Tournicare have designed a unique home blood...

In this current COVID-19 climate, companies are pivoting and stepping-up to meet industry challenges. Continuing discussions in our virtual podcast studio, host Caroline Duell and Dr Kate Brooks are joined by Epichem CEO, Colin La Galia, to talk about what his chemistry services company is doing to support healthcare teams on the COVID-19 frontline in WA. EpiChem is pivoting to produce WHO formula...

For this week’s edition of the podcast, we chat to Dr David Kok, a Radiation Oncologist and Director of Training at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, a clinical researcher and Course Convenor of the Master of Cancer Sciences degree at the University of Melbourne in partnership with the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC). It is Australia’s first cancer-specific, multidisciplinary, and wh...

Happy 50th episode subscribers! With this special milestone we do our first virtual chat, where host Caroline Duell speaks to Spokle Co-Founder Elisabeth Yunarko. Spokle is a digital health application that aids children with communication difficulties, by providing family-led speech therapy through fun games and video tutorials and has been especially effective in the Indonesian market. Elisabeth...

MTPConnect hosted Medical Alley Association’s VP Intelligence Frank Jaskulke for our first Seminar Series around Australia. The podcast team spoke to Frank after he completed his tour of Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia, to find out how prepared Australian medtech companies are to break into the United States. Our Senior Director Stakeholder Engagement Dr Rebecca Tunstall joined i...

Australia is stepping-up to the global challenge to tackle Antimicrobial Resistance, and this week our podcast takes you to a keynote presentation by our Director Stakeholder Engagement for Queensland Andrew Bowskill at the DMTC Conference in Canberra. Andrew’s key message? We need a new approach to commercialising novel antibiotics now to save lives. Our thanks to DMTC’s CEO Mark Hodge and the te...

What is a tele trial and how do patients get access to these in regional Australia? The podcast team chat to Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA)’s CEO Marie Malica and Professor Sabe Sabesan the Director of the Department of Medical Oncology at the Townsville Cancer Centre, about the impact of a pilot project where clinicians and industry work together to give patients in regional and re...

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is recognised as one of the world’s most pressing global health priorities according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Hosts Stuart Dignam and Dr Dan Grant speak to a leading researcher in this field, Professor Adrian Towse from the Office of Health Economics in the UK. They discuss the importance of Australia’s position in the fight against AMR and how importa...

What is deep tech? We find this out in this week’s edition of the MTPConnect podcast, where host Shannan Osrin chats to Cicada Innovations CEO Sally-Ann Williams. They discuss investment, translation and commercialisation and partnering opportunities with Cicada, companies that have been through the Cicada MedLab accelerator program and Sally-Ann’s decade-long career at Google Australia. 

In this week’s edition, we profile Victoria’s Lead Scientist, Dr Amanda Caples. We explore her career in research, industry and the public sector, look at her work to amplify STEM education in primary, secondary and tertiary education, and discuss exciting new opportunities for Australian innovators in space healthtech through the Australian Space Agency.

In this week’s special edition of the MTPConnect podcast, we look at the critical role being played by Australian scientists and researchers as part of the global response to the Novel Coronavirus public health emergency.   With thousands of people infected worldwide, and the number of deaths already surpassing 900, the race is on for a vaccine – and it’s here that Australia is playing a critical...

Round two applications for funding through the Biomedical Translation Bridge program will open shortly.  In this episode of the MTPConnect podcast, we bring you our Round 2 Information Session recorded from Melbourne. Hear from MTPConnect’s Dr Dan Grant and our partners; BioCurate’s Dr Tifelle Reisinger, UniQuest’s Dr Mark Ahston and the Medical Device Partnering Program’s Dr Andrew Milligan. They...

For this edition of the MTPConnect Podcast, we speak to Arthur Ong, Head of Product Management at Curve Tomorrow, the award winning digital health and technology company on a mission to impact 1 billion lives. We discuss digital health trends, their work with the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute & AFL to create the HeadCheck app for concussion management, pitching digital health innovatio...

Happy New Year and welcome to a new season of the MTPConnect Podcast. For this edition, we introduce you to a new host, Caroline Duell, and to a very special guest – renowned burns surgeon, researcher and medtech innovator Prof Fiona Wood AO from WA. Fiona takes us through her start-up journey to develop the world’s first spray-on skin, the importance of asking why, and how science is improving bu...

MTPConnect with support from Asialink Business and Austrade released our new report ‘ Frugal Innovation in Medical Devices and Technologies: The India Opportunity’ , the first research of its kind to highlight the growing opportunities for future-focused Australian medical technologies businesses looking to tap into the growing healthcare market in India. We hear from MTPConnect’s Managing Directo...

For this edition of the MTPConnect podcast, host Shannan Osrin takes you to the West Tech Fest in Perth. Now in its eighth year it continues to bring together local founders, innovators, researchers and industry to further strengthen the Australian startup ecosystem. Carlo Bellini is a medical doctor turned business strategist, executive coach, and speaker. His boutique firm, HIP Consulting (Healt...

The BioMedTech Horizons Program is focused on supporting translation of Australian medical technology innovation to address key health challenges. MTPConnect convened our Round 1 BioMedTech Horizons Program recipients together in Melbourne for a chance to hear about all projects underway, swap ideas on challenges being faced and gain advice from commercialisation experts. Listen in to Carina Biote...

The Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) located at Monash University’s Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences in Melbourne gives early-to-mid career researchers the opportunity to study and tackle global health priorities, like BDI Research Fellow Dr Mitchell Lawrence’s research into Prostate Cancer. Home to more than 700 researchers, 120 research groups and 200 international research...