$500 million fund will help build Australia’s biomedical industry of the future

13 December 2016 Joint media release with the Hon. Sussan Ley MP, Minister for Health and Aged Care. The Turnbull Government is today launching the $500 million Biomedical Translation Fund, established under the government’s National Innovation and Science Agenda, which will help take Australian biomedical discoveries out of the laboratory and to the patient. Three […]

BioScience Managers Translation Fund to spur Australian jobs and innovation

Melbourne, Australia 13 December, 2016 – BioScience Managers, one of Australia’s leading life sciences investment firms, has been awarded a $100 million investment licence for the Federal Government-backed Biomedical Translation Fund. BioScience Managers is one of three fund managers chosen to invest on behalf of the BTF and will be responsible for $100 million, half from […]

BioScience Managers partners with large UK Venture Capital Trust Fund

Agreement with Downing to launch a new Healthcare Offer for VCT investors A target raise of £10 million with investors able to make monthly contributions High demand likely, with fewer offers open to investment Portfolio to target dividends of at least 4 per cent pa (of net assets) from the fourth year onwards Melbourne, Australia […]

Nexvet Announces Initiation of Pivotal Efficacy Study of Frunevetmab in Cats

DUBLIN, Ireland, Dec. 12, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Nexvet Biopharma (Nasdaq:NVET) today announced it has initiated a pivotal field efficacy and safety study of frunevetmab, the Company’s anti-nerve growth factor (NGF) monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapy which is being developed as a monthly subcutaneous injectable for the control of pain associated with osteoarthritis in cats. Nexvet expects to report data […]

Adherium’s Smartinhaler selected for multisite study in EU

By Heather Mack December 12, 2016 – link here SHARE 66 Melbourne, Australia-based smart inhaler company Adherium has been selected to supply the technology for a multi-country research program in Europe that will seek to establish whether home monitoring and mobile health tools can be used to manage asthma. Adherium’s Smartinhaler technology, which uses sensors to track […]