Health, MedTech & Pharmaceuticals

Monash University Professor Doug MacFarlane has taken out the coveted $50,000 veski Victoria Prize for Science & Innovation in physical sciences.

Swinburne University’s Alan Duffy has taken out the Australian Museum’s 2018 Eureka Prize for science journalism.

A world-first patented electronic capsule developed in Melbourne to help identify gut disorders takes out top spot in an international competition.

Wangaratta secondary students have beaten 600 other teams to take out one of just six highly-coveted 2018 Service Awards at the ‘Robotics Olympics’.

A $16 million investment is helping position Victoria as the country’s main hub for medicinal cannabis.

Laureate Professor Hugh Taylor and his team are working on phasing out preventable blindness in Australia’s Indigenous communities by 2020.

Johnson & Johnson Innovation is teaming up with one of Victoria’s top research institutions, Monash University. We find out why.

Victorian manufacturing is on the up. Australian Industry Group (AIG) CEO Innes Willox takes us inside the resilience of our manufacturing sector.

We speak to Dr Leanne Robinson from the Burnet Institute and Dr Amanda Caples, Victoria’s Lead Scientist, about the eradication of malaria.

Victoria’s latest Business Ambassador, Professor Ian Meredith, is opening trade doors in the healthcare space across North America.

We chart the rise of Dr Lauren Ayton, a 2015 Victoria Fellow recipient who is now a leading bionic eye researcher in New York.

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Introducing Victoria’s second Business Ambassador, Dr Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.

Victorian-based scientists have discovered a new vaccine that protects babies from a potentially deadly rotavirus infection.

Dr Amanda Caples, appointed as Victoria’s Lead Scientist in mid-2016, walks us through her career and shares her love for all things science.

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson is establishing a new Innovation Partnering Office with Monash University.

Nutribiotech has chosen Victoria as the location of its fourth global manufacturing facility, creating 150 new jobs in Dandenong South.

A new Australian research collaboration using 3D implants and robotic surgery is set to change the way tumours and bone cancers are treated.