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Consortium sets final ‘foundation stones’ for future of Australian regenerative medicine

Health Industry Hub | October 27, 2021 |

Biotech News: The ‘foundation stones’ for Australia’s regenerative medicine (RM) future are now complete, with the publication of three resources offering new knowledge and benchmarking, purpose, and a firm, unified direction for the industry’s future.

The ‘foundation stones’ for Australia’s regenerative medicine (RM) future are now complete, with the publication of three resources offering new knowledge and benchmarking, purpose, and a firm, unified direction for the industry’s future.

Benchmarking the investment in the sector in Australia in 2019 and 2020, Australia’s Regenerative Medicine Investments Database reveals the extent of private funding and active interest that has been invested into the sector. Investment increased by 113% between 2019 and 2020, and with $394.1 million invested into RM in 2020, this accounts for approximately 23% of the overall capital invested into the Australian biotech sector.

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In addition, a group of four industry case studies demonstrates the breadth of cell and gene technology development present in Australia and its potential for addressing and managing patients’ unmet needs; and the Strategic Roadmap for the Regenerative Medicine Sector is charting the way ahead with priorities identified to support the sector’s growth.

The Regenerative Medicine Consortium has delivered the final ‘capstones’ in its 12-month project, which collectively demonstrate the breadth of opportunity present in the Australian RM sector.

New resource: Strategic Roadmap for the Regenerative Medicine Sector

To support Australian patients accessing world-class RM therapies that are sustained by a thriving Australian RM industry, a strategic roadmap for the Australian RM sector has been released.

The first strategy of its kind, it seeks to create an end-to-end world-class value chain that can discover, develop, and distribute RM, while creating jobs, commercialising research, exporting Australian therapies to the world, and attracting global therapies for Australian patients.

The roadmap articulates the objectives and priority actions, backed by a detailed discussion of the key barriers facing the RM sector. The five key strategic goals include: capabilities/workforce; collaboration; funding; regulation and policy; and infrastructure.

Developing and sustaining the necessary capacity and capability requires a coordinated approach across the public and private sectors, and the uniqueness of RM in both opportunity and in challenges is why Australia requires a unified, catalyst body led by industry and supported by
governments championing the cause. As such, Australia’s new Cell and Gene Therapy Catalyst, co-led by AusBiotech and Medicines Australia, is committed to implementing this new strategy.

Included within the Strategic Roadmap is a sub-report that further investigates the skills and talent specific to the sector, and forms a plan to attract long term investment in the sector and the role of Australian biotech companies partnering with global companies.

New resource: Australia’s Regenerative Medicine Investments Database

Investment in Australian RM companies grew with a 113% increase in private funding over the period between 2019 and 2020, reveals the newly-published Australia’s Regenerative Medicine Investments Database report. With $394.1 million invested into RM in 2020, this accounts for
approximately 23%of the overall capital invested into the Australian biotech sector in 2020.

As a burgeoning sector working in a global environment, the report quantifies Australia’s position and reveals that while the country holds just 0.32% of the global population, in 2020 it accounted for 1.5% of global RM investment (AU$26.3B in 2020).

The report breaks down the types of financing and shows that, compared with global norms, Australia is highly dependent (2020: 94%, $371 million) on placements as a form of raising capital. This reveals the importance of institutional investors to the current Australian RM sector, and that Australian RM companies have little access to venture capital funding.

Continued investment pattern tracking for the sector will be important in understanding and supporting the growth of the Australian RM sector.

New resource: Four Case Studies: Cell, Gene, Gene Modified Cell and Tissue Engineered Products

Four case studies demonstrating a depth of information on cell and gene technology development and their potential for addressing and managing unmet needs, has been released.

The four case studies each focus on a different aspect of cell and gene technology: Cell therapy (Mesoblast), Gene therapy (Pfizer), Gene Modified Cell (Novartis) and Tissue Engineered Products (Orthocell).

Read the case studies here.


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