Highlights from Accelerating Australia’s Life Sciences Innovation Expo

Accelerating Australia’s Life Sciences Innovation Expo is a pitch event of top healthcare projects from Accelerating Australia programs, followed by a “Meet the Innovators” exhibition.

Accelerating Australia is a national consortium of biomedical research institutions, universities, healthcare providers and companies established in 2017 to support cross-sector, multi-disciplined collaboration and to empower future biomedical leaders. They offer specialised national and international programs designed to help researchers and innovators foster ideas and shape them into something commercially viable.

Meet the innovators

Dr Mark Gardner
PDTech – Empowering Parkinson’s patients to take control of their disease.

Dr Laura Downie
ADMiER – A one-step, point-of-care test to rapidly and accurately diagnose dry eye.

Dr Marian Sturm
StemSmart – Patented StemSmart technology improves the clinical efficacy of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) to treat several auto-immune conditions including life-threatening (refractory) Crohn’s disease.

Prof Mary Bebawy
Cancer liquid biopsy: Non-invasive prognostic to predict risk of relapse in multiple myeloma.

Dr Pauline Zaenker
MelDx – World-first blood test to detect deadly melanoma in early stage patients.

Dr Farhad Goodarzy
NeuroBit – Translating thoughts to movements in patients with spinal cord injury.