Moderna opens mRNA manufacturing facility in Victoria
10 December, 2024The Southern Hemisphere's only mRNA manufacturing facility has opened in Victoria, ensuring that mRNA vaccines and medicines will be able to be made in Australia.
Medical research and innovation hub coming to Perth
03 December, 2024The Murray Street hub is planned to be a central city space for collaboration, research and development, bringing together leading innovators and researchers.
High-tech UQ facility enables precision plant research
04 November, 2024A high-tech facility with rooms to mimic environments from rainforests to deserts is set to help Australian scientists and industry improve crop productivity and secure future food supplies.
La Trobe launches AI medical research centre
08 October, 2024The Australian Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Medical Innovation will leverage AI technologies, data and skills innovation to drive growth of an AI-enabled medical ecosystem in Victoria.
Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre opens in Clayton
31 July, 2024MMIC Clayton is a purpose-designed and -built facility including laboratory and office space, co-located with the Australian Synchrotron in the heart of the Monash Technology Precinct.
Flinders Uni opens $280m Health and Medical Research Building
14 June, 2024Home to 600+ medical researchers, clinicians and support staff, the 10-storey landmark signifies the start of a new chapter for health and medical research in South Australia.
Cicada Innovations opens HealthTech Hub in Western Sydney
28 March, 2024The incubation facility is situated within one of Australia's largest health and biomedical precincts, the Westmead Health and Innovation District, in Sydney's western suburbs.
New Melbourne-based facility to deliver human challenge trials
25 March, 2024Doherty Clinical Trials was established to accelerate the development of novel medicines and vaccines through bespoke early-phase clinical trials solutions, including human challenge trials.
QUT's lunar testbed nears completion
21 December, 2023A lunar testbed, understood to be the first of its kind in Australia, is currently under construction as part of the $7.9 million QUT Space Technology Precinct.
CSL opens global headquarters and R&D centre in Melbourne
24 August, 2023 by Lauren DavisThe facility will house more than 850 professionals dedicated to protecting public health and bringing life-saving innovative therapies to those in need.
Plans unveiled for Australian Institute for Infectious Disease
23 June, 2023The Victorian Government is investing up to $400m to deliver the institute, which is expected to form the largest centre of infectious disease expertise in the Southern Hemisphere.
DECO's Testing Laboratory unveiled by Prime Minister
22 May, 2023DECO's Testing Laboratory and the DECO Innovation Centre were officially opened by the Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Anthony Albanese MP.
Down to a science: right-sizing, wellness and flexibility in lab design
04 October, 2022 by Amy Papas, Senior Laboratory Planner*According to Senior Laboratory Planner Amy Papas, labs are among the most programmatically complex environments to plan, design and engineer.
$478m biomedical research facility coming to Sydney
09 September, 2022Denton Corker Marshall + HDR have won the design competition for the Sydney Biomedical Accelerator health, research and education facility.
Underground lab to shed light on dark matter
24 August, 2022The Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) is set to be the new epicentre of dark matter research in Australia.