July 21, 2020

$18.8M DIGITAL & TeleHealth

The Australian Government is investing $18.8 million to supercharge the discovery of better treatments.

The Morrison Federal government is spending $18.8 Million to turbo charge the finding of much better procedures for cancer cells, epilepsy, movement, depression, Short-tempered Digestive tract Disorder, mind traumas, pain in the back as well as severe mid ear illness.

Under rounded 3 of our Federal government's $forty five thousand BioMedTech Horizons (BMTH) course, 21 quite encouraging jobs will certainly acquire financing to assist uncover a few of the essential health and wellness obstacles of our opportunities.

Effective candidates will certainly utilize the backing to create clinical gadgets-- featuring wearable units-- telehealth as well as telemedicine, as well as digitally-enabled personal medication.

Our Authorities is actually sustaining Australia's outstanding biomedical as well as clinical modern technology field for the advantage of all Australians, while developing brand new tasks, increasing knowledge as well as structure maintainable export markets.

Victoria-based Seer will certainly acquire $1 thousand to build a real-time confiscation projecting unit, by means of wearable and also mobile phone surveillance, to encourage folks along with epilepsy to restore command of their health condition.

This task possesses terrific prospective to conserve lifestyles and also strengthen lifestyles of folks along with epilepsy and also their family members.

Various other ventures consist of a 3D bioprinting unit for reproducing skin layer as well as building a wise intellect examination needle for a lot faster, much safer neurosurgery.

The Morrison Authorities delivers financing for the BioMedTech Horizons plan by means of its own $twenty billion Medical Study Future Fund (MRFF), while business is actually supporting these ventures through matching payments ad valorem $21.3 Million.

The MRFF is actually a vital support of Australia's lasting nationwide health insurance to develop the planet's greatest health and wellness unit.

MTPConnect, a not-for-profit organization steering development, performance and also competition in the health care innovations, drugs and also medicals field, supplies BioMedTech Horizons in support of the Australian Federal government.

Additional relevant information is actually accessible on the MRFF internet site.

Project	Recipient	Funding
Digitally enabled skullcaps to monitor brain swelling in craniectomy patients to optimise timing of skull reconstruction surgery.	Anatomics Pty Ltd, Victoria	$997,920
A nano-optimised surface to prevent orthopaedic implant and dental infections.	Anisop Holdings Pty Ltd, New South Wales	$1,000,000
Artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support software for guiding acute stroke therapy.	Apollo Medical Imaging Technology Pty Ltd, Victoria	$346,500
Automated methods for evaluating cardiac CT angiography and high-risk imaging biomarkers	Artrya Pty Ltd, Western Australia	$987,428
Application of Atmo ingestible gas sensing capsule to diagnose Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO).	Atmo Biosciences Pty Ltd, Victoria	$620,000
Development of an implantable vision system in the Bionic Eye Generation 3 device to restore functional vision for blind patients.	Bionic Vision Technologies Pty Ltd, Victoria	$1,000,000
High resolution cortical recording for the prediction and prevention of epileptic seizures.	Carbon Cybernetics, Victoria	$1,000,000
ClearDrum® which is an acoustically-optimised silk fibroin membrane for the treatment of chronic middle ear disease.	Ear Science Institute Australia, Western Australia	$993,500
Improving colorectal cancer outcomes with hybrid cancer tracers.	Ferronova Pty Ltd, South Australia	$826,000
Development of miniature, low-energy wireless power and data transmission systems for implantable medical devices.	Hemideina, Victoria	$660,520
Developing a 3D bioprinting system for intraoperative skin regeneration.	Inventia Life Science Pty Ltd, New South Wales	$1,000,000
Augmented digital re-construction and re-visualisation of spine MRI for the personalised diagnosis of back pain.	Merunova Pty Ltd, New South Wales	$977,000
A smart brain biopsy needle for faster, safer neurosurgery.	Miniprobes Pty Ltd, South Australia	$1,000,000
Commercialisation of hand and arm wearable for use with Neuromersiv Virtual Reality rehabilitation system.	Neuromersiv Pty Ltd, New South Wales	$994,000
Advancing commercialisation of its PulseVAD pulsatile rotary blood pump designed to treat patients suffering from a form of Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) for which there is no effective treatment.	Northern Research Pty Ltd, New South Wales	$1,000,000
Compact wireless technology for improved accuracy during breast conserving surgery.	OncoRes Medical Pty Ltd, Western Australia	$1,000,000
Use of non-invasive confocal endomicroscopy system to enhance oral cancer screening and surgical margin assessment.	Optiscan Pty Ltd, Victoria	$971,000
Personalised epilepsy treatment via mobile and wearable monitoring.	Seer, Victoria	$1,000,000
Stentrode; enabling people with paralysis to restore functional independence (email communication, text messaging and online shopping) by controlling apps and external devices through thought alone, and without requiring open brain surgery.	Synchron Australia Pty Ltd, Victoria	$990,000
Development of a transcatheter blood pump system for Cardiogenic Shock and Hemodynamically Compromised patients.	VenstraMedical Pty Ltd, New South Wales	$850,000
Establishing domestic capabilities for combined R&D and manufacture of point-of-care diagnostics.	Zip Diagnostics, Victoria	$600,000