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Latin moves: doing business with Latin America
Find out why Latin America is heating up for Victorian trade and investment prospects.
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Local science takes centre stage
It’s fun. It’s high stakes and it celebrates Victoria’s thriving science scene. It’s veski’s fast smarts innovation program.
Wall panel at the exhibition. Lights spell out 'Love your Guts'
Go with your gut at Melbourne Museum’s new exhibition
WATCH THE VIDEO: Journey into the fascinating, hidden depths of the gut at Melbourne Museum’s latest show.
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Melbourne genomics professor wins Women in Leadership award
Clara Gaff is spearheading efforts to tackle genetic heart, kidney, cancer, deafness and neurological conditions.
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Victorian virtual reality invention revolutionising children’s healthcare
A fear of needles is a reality for many kids during hospital visits. Recent women in leadership award winner, Dr Evelyn Chan, is going to change that.
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Biotech advocate takes out leadership award
Meet Anna Lavelle, a recent award recipient for a vast career campaigning for the growth of the life sciences and medtech industries.
Photograph of Professor Ben Marsland.
Victorian researcher uses innovation award to help fight childhood asthma
Read how one veski award winner is aiming to help prevent asthma in children.
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A year for medical innovations – 2018 highlights series
In 2018 we learned how medical innovations, when paired, just so, with technology can help us lead longer and healthier lives.
Melbourne professors Andrew Roberts and John Seymour have won a Victoria Prize for Science & Innovation
Leukaemia drug breakthrough wins Victoria Prize
Melbourne professors Andrew Roberts and John Seymour have won a Victoria Prize for Science & Innovation for their development of an anti-cancer drug.
Victoria advancing standards for global biobanking
Australia’s first industry standard biobanking facility will soon be up and running in Melbourne.
Prize win for renewable energy breakthrough
Monash University Professor Doug MacFarlane has taken out the coveted $50,000 veski Victoria Prize for Science & Innovation in physical sciences.
Alan Duffy
Astrophysicist Alan Duffy unravels the mysteries of science
Swinburne University’s Alan Duffy has taken out the Australian Museum’s 2018 Eureka Prize for science journalism.
Melbourne start-up Atmo Biosciences clinches international prize
A world-first patented electronic capsule developed in Melbourne to help identify gut disorders takes out top spot in an international competition.
Students from Galen College infront of NASA sign
STEM spotlight: rural students win big at ‘Robotics Olympics’
Wangaratta secondary students have beaten 600 other teams to take out one of just six highly-coveted 2018 Service Awards at the ‘Robotics Olympics’.
Greenhouse of medicinal cannabis. The farmers in white suits pruning the crop
Victoria set to become the nation’s medicinal cannabis hotspot
A $16 million investment is helping position Victoria as the country’s main hub for medicinal cannabis.
An older woman looking into an eye health check machine
Melbourne’s fight against eye health crisis
Laureate Professor Hugh Taylor and his team are working on phasing out preventable blindness in Australia’s Indigenous communities by 2020.
Beyond perception seeing the unseen
Science class made cool: check out Scienceworks’ newest exhibition
WATCH THE VIDEO: A ground-breaking new exhibition at Scienceworks, ‘Beyond Perception: Seeing the Unseen’ puts teenagers very much front and centre.
