13 June 2025
Introducing the hi-tech guinea pig that’s streamlining cancer treatment and lessening our reliance on lab rats
Achievements
General
Research
AusHealth is supporting the development of a drug-testing technology that’s more efficient, more usable and more ethical
Australian start-up OminiWell has developed a drug-screening ‘chip’ to make it easier to test an individual patient’s cancer cells for treatment.
Australian start-up OminiWell has developed a drug-screening ‘chip’ to make it easier to test an individual patient’s cancer cells for treatment.

2 June 2025
2025 AusHealth CureCell Awards are now open!
Achievements
General
Research
Five awards of $10,000 are available to PhD students doing a cell or biological therapy related project. Apply before July 31!

7 May 2025
New partnership to help chronically sick 'butterfly children'
Achievements
General
Research
AusHealth’s collaboration with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) Research Partnership Australia is advancing the use of phage therapy to treat children with life-threatening genetic disorders.

7 May 2025
Looking for research funding? Here are six golden rules for making the perfect pitch...
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General
Research
AusHealth's Business Development Manager, Dr Tina Lavranos, knows the difference between 'pitch perfect' and 'pitch poor'.

28 April 2025
Cocaine or poison? AusHeath's toxicologist tests Hamish & Andy's mysterious white powder!
Drugs and Alcohol
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Research
On the latest Hamish & Andy podcast (23 April), Andy Lee revealed how he'd discovered a flask of suspicious powder behind the wall of his 1876 house in Melbourne.
He and colleague Hamish Blake wanted to know whether it was some kind of 19th-Century poison - or another illicit substance? They put the call out for a qualified person to provide answers and AusHealth's expert toxicologist Dr John Edwards stepped up.
He and colleague Hamish Blake wanted to know whether it was some kind of 19th-Century poison - or another illicit substance? They put the call out for a qualified person to provide answers and AusHealth's expert toxicologist Dr John Edwards stepped up.

28 April 2025
AusHealth partners with new $238 million cooperative research centre
Achievements
General
Research
AusHealth is one of the architects of a new cooperative research centre, designed to grow Australia’s biomanufacturing industry.
