Perth companies OncoRes Medical and PhosEnergy are among the latest recipients of federal government research grants, with OncoRes also looking to close a private capital raising.
A WA-developed imaging device that can reduce the number of repeat surgeries for breast cancer patients has received a major accreditation from the US Food and Drug Administration.
Spacecubed founder and managing director Brodie McCulloch has become the fifth major candidate to declare their candidacy in the City of Perth's upcoming mayoral election.
OncoRes Medical has been awarded $1 million in federal funding to develop technology that can reduce the need for repeat operations in breast cancer patients.
SPECIAL REPORT: Despite WA's history of innovative medical research, the state's medtech sector continues to grapple with outsider perceptions and its own commercial direction.
The state government has appointed an industry reference group to develop a growth plan for WA's health and medical life sciences sector to be chaired by Peter Klinken.
Perth company OncoRes Medical is in the midst of an unusual fundraising campaign, the success of which is tied to the number of clicks on one of its videos on social media (click through to see the video).
A carefully managed five-year incubation process for new Perth company Respirion Pharmaceuticals has resulted in one of the largest funding deals for Western Australia's biotech sector.
A Nedlands-based tech startup that is aiming to raise $15 million next year has been chosen as joint winner in global finals for international startup competition Pitch@Palace at St James's Palace, London.
Saracen Mineral Holdings managing director Raleigh Finlayson has received the top honour at Business News' 2018 40under40 awards, named First Amongst Equals ahead of a diverse field of Western Australia's young business and community leaders.
Medical innovation and commercialisation group SPARK Co-Lab launched its 2017 Design Course Pitch Night last night, naming medical device startup NIMo (Non Invasive Monitoring) as the winner.
Solutions to some of the world's most complex medical problems could be sitting on our very doorstep, thanks to a collaborative lab bridging research and commercialisation.
A $70,000 grant provided by the City of Perth in support of SPARK Co-Lab's new Actuator program will help local medical entrepreneurs take their inventions to market.
Newly established Perth company OncoRes Medical has secured up to $6 million of funding to commercialise a surgical tool developed by researchers at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and the University of Western Australia.
SPECIAL REPORT: Former mining boss Charlie Bass and surgeon Peter Santa Maria are among the growing number of people in Western Australia looking to make innovation a commercial reality.
