Australian biotech company FivepHusion has developed a breakthrough drug that brings two cancer-killing drugs together for improved tolerability, higher dosing potential and enhanced anti-cancer activity. More amazing, it could be approved within just four years...

Helping Hands are made exclusively for AusHealth, one of Australia's largest self-funded medical research charities. And after 40 years of supporting lab workers across Australia, we know what makes a great disposable glove!

At the beginning of 2025, Dr Quenten Schwarz received seed funding of $400,000 from AusHealth and the Vonbri Foundation to investigate the causes of childhood brain cancer. Data from that research has since helped his team secure a substantial $3 million grant from the Federal Government to further investigate causes and therapies for a pernicious form of brain cancer called diffuse midline glioma (DMG).

Introducing the amazing new fibre that’s healing wounds, delivering nutraceuticals and improving diets – all from an agricultural by-product that’s currently burned…

AusHealth's CureCell Awards ceremony was held in the Kent Town Hotel, Adelaide. Seven PhD award winners were joined by family, friends and academic powerbrokers to celebrate.

In July, 65 PhD students submitted single-page synopses on their research into cell or biological therapies. In this series of posts we talk with the seven award winners about their ground-breaking science, their lives as a researcher and how they’ll spend their $10,000 prize...