The AUScelerate Podcast

In a special episode, we sit down with Senator Arthur Sinodinos AO for his last interview before leaving the Senate to become Australia’s next Ambassador to the United States of America. He reflects on his 30 year career in public service - as a Senator for NSW, Prime Minister John Howard’s Chief of Staff and Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science – and discusses the future of genomics, reg...

The MTPConnect Podcast team was on the ground at the 2019 Bridge Program Symposium in Melbourne late last month, speaking with bright and emerging research talent, Bridge consortia members from Australian pharma companies about its training program to enable successful commercialisation of Australian pharmaceutical research. Hear from QUT Executive Director Professor Lyn Griffiths, Amgen Director...

In a special episode, the MTPConnect Podcast brings you inside a Board meeting in Sydney with our Chair Sue MacLeman and the inaugural Guest of the Chair Dr Parisa Glass, Executive Director at The George Institute for Global Health. Sue explains how the initiative came to be and Parisa provides some of her learnings from her first Board meeting.  Credits: Host Stuart Dignam

The MTPConnect team was on the ground for the launch of Anatomics new 3D printing polymer laboratory at the MAKE Incubator in Melbourne where Federal Minister for Health Hon Greg Hunt MP was on hand to cut the ribbon and open the facility. He stayed to chat about the importance of the pioneering polymer implants in treating patients in need of vital reconstructive surgery. We also spoke to Anatomi...

MTPConnect is officially open for business in Queensland, after the launch of our new offices at the Translational Research Institute in Brisbane! Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Hon. Karen Andrews MP was on hand to open our offices and announce the IMNIS Regional Queensland Initiative that will see six PhD students from James Cook University and six students from CQ University have...

The MTPConnect podcast team bring you more on the ground conversations with international delegates and our Australian companies at the 2019 MedTech Conference in Boston. Check out Dr Kath Giles and the OncoRes Medical team and Macuject’s Devinder Chauhan. JP Morgan's Mike Gietl, Evidence Matters' Leslie Wise, Nine Point Medical's Eman Namati and Austrade USA’s Elizabeth Thomas also...

The 2019 MedTech Conference is underway and the MTPConnect team is on the ground in Boston to bring you exclusive chats with Australian delegates like Bionics Institute’s CEO Robert Klupacs and international participants like Finland’s Marcello van Rossum from the Helsinki Business Hub. 

We have a Nobel Laureate in the house for this week’s MTPConnect Podcast. Professor of Microbiology at UWA - and 2005 Nobel Prize winner - Professor Barry Marshall joins the MTPConnect team, along with Dr Josephine Muir, the CEO & Co-Founder of WA start-up, Noisy Guts. On the agenda - medtech innovation, the challenges of translation and how AI is changing everything. 

The 2019 MedTech Conference is fast approaching and Melbourne-based Hydrix will be there are part of the Aussie delegation. We chat to the company’s Director of Business Development Richard Stephens about his plans and expectations for this years’ conference. 

The MTPConnect Podcast team recently caught up with Pfizer Ventures Managing Partner Dr Barbara Dalton to talk about Australia’s strengths as a destination to conduct clinical trials. Dr Dalton discusses what’s so attractive about Australia to international companies and we explore the potential to grow the export earning potential of our clinical trials ecosystem. 

Wollongong, south of Sydney, is famous for beaches, rainforests and increasingly its world-leading 3D bioprinting facility, TRICEP. In this episode of the MTPConnect podcast series, we tour TRICEP, speak with its Director Professor Gordon Wallace and Dr Stephen Beirne and delve into the world of cellular engineering and bioprinting.

MTPConnect is thrilled to be supporting Western Australia’s burgeoning life sciences sector which is producing standout startups like OncoRes Medical. In this episode we meet their Managing Director and CEO Dr Kath Giles and introduce the new Director of Stakeholder Engagement at the MTPConnect WA Life Sciences Innovation Hub, Dr Kate Brooks. 

The ARCS Australia conference, supported by MTPConnect, has wrapped up for another year. It brought together key leaders in the MTP sector - and we chatted with many of them in this episode of our podcast series.

The Translational Research Institute and Vaxxas are supported by MTPConnect through the Growth Centre Initiative to increase Australia’s skills and capabilities in manufacturing. This week, we’re in Brisbane where our COO Stuart Dignam chats to TRI’s Michelle Richards and Vaxxas’s Charles Ross to discuss the impact of their projects.

Brett Carter is the CEO of the Cancer Therapeutics CRC and he joins us in the MTPConnect podcast studio to chat his team’s work, their project to build a comprehensive drug discovery library and the growing importance of cancer immunotherapy.

The Bionics Institute has signed-up to join MTPConnect’s delegation to the 2019 MedTech Conference in Boston in September -- and you can too. CEO Robert Klupacs chats with us about the benefits of being part of the Australian delegation. He also shares his insights on how to take advantage of the conference and strategies for building connections and opening-up new market opportunities. 

In this episode, we take you to the Innovate Health conference and our Managing Director & CEO’s keynote address. Dr Dan Grant traces the history of megatrends in health and medical research and explores the emerging megatrends set to disrupt healthcare — all discussed in our new Sector Competitiveness Plan (available to download now).

WuXi NextCODE Chief Strategy Officer Alex Fowkes joins MTPConnect Managing Director and CEO Dr Dan Grant in the our podcast studio to talk about his career in life sciences which has seen him traverse the globe. Alex shares insights into how far Australia has come, what the future may look like in life sciences and the rise and rise of areas like precision medicine and genomics.

BioEYES is an internationally-recognised STEM education program through Monash University’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) and the Australian Regenerative Medicine Insitute (ARMI). Monash BDI Outreach Education Coordinator Laura Reid takes BioEYES to primary and secondary schools across Victoria, opening kids’ minds to the power of STEM - and the magic of zebrafish. 

The $22.3 million Biomedical Translation Bridge program opens for applications on 1 July. MTPConnect and our BTB partners BioCurate, UniQuest, the Medical Device Partnering Program and the Bridge and BridgeTech Programs took to the stage at the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre for an Information Session on how you can apply to the program and more! 

MTPConnect has been on the ground in the city of Brotherly love, Philadelphia as part of the big Australian delegation to the 2019 BIO International Convention. It's the world's biggest gathering of the biotech and pharma sector and in this episode our COO Stuart Dignam and our Managing Director and CEO Dr Dan Grant take you inside BIO, bringing you interviews with some of the key people...

In this episode, we introduce MTPConnect’s inaugural CEO, now Chair – Sue MacLeman. Sue steps into the MTPConnect podcast studio to reflect on her career, how being a mentor for IMNIS has made her positive about the future of STEM professionals and to discuss the way forward for MTPConnect and the sector. 

To mark International Clinical Trials Day, we’ve brought together a high powered panel to explore why clinical trials are so important to patient health - and national wealth.  Our CEO Dr Dan Grant is joined in the MTPConnect podcast studio by special guests CT:IQ Program Director Leanne Weekes, GSK Australia’s Head of Clinical Research Carrie Bloomfield and from California, Deep 6 AI Vice Preside...

As AusBiotech prepares to lead the largest ever Australian delegation to the BIO International Convention in Philadelphia, its CEO Lorraine Chiroiu joins MTPConnect CEO Dr Dan Grant in the MTPConnect Podcast studio to give you tips on how to maximise opportunities from the mission. 

Industry Mentoring Network in STEM (IMNIS) Executive Director Dr Marguerite Evans-Galea comes into the MTPConnect Podcast Studio to discuss the importance of mentoring in career development and how IMNIS is working to boost mentoring opportunities across Australia. MTPConnect CEO Dr Dan Grant also joins us and shares his experiences as a mentee.