Minister for Health and Aged Care, Medical Research Future Fund
| Role | Organisation | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care | Australian Government | @AuManufacturing (11 Sep 2025), @AuManufacturing (30 Jun 2025), @AuManufacturing (25 Feb 2024), @AuManufacturing (20 Feb 2024) |
| Minister for Health and Aged Care | Medical Research Future Fund | - |
Stories naming Mark Butler. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Six Australian health tech startups received non-dilutive grants totaling $13.5 million from the government-backed CUREator+ program to accelerate commercialisation of medical innovations.
Six Australian health tech startups received a combined $13.5 million in non-dilutive funding from the CUREator+ program, supported by the Australian Government.
CUREator+ granted thirteen point five million dollars in non-dilutive funding to six Australian health tech startups to support commercialisation of medical innovations.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing items: gold-nanoparticle cancer diagnostics research, a medical research endowment's ten-year mark, a footballer's ambassador role, EU research program accession talks, a pectin producer's government grant, and battle-tank trainers.
ANDHealth secured a thirty-three million dollar government grant to expand its non-dilutive accelerator program for digital health startups, aiming to support fifteen companies over two years.
Eight Australian health startups received equity-free grants totaling 18.5 million dollars from the CUREator+ program, supported by government funding and delivered with partners Brandon BioCatalyst and ANDHealth.
ANDHealth announced its fourth accelerator cohort, granting non-dilutive MRFF funding to six digital health startups including Cape Bionics and Healthily to support commercialisation.
Weekly roundup of readers' top five stories: Gilmour Space's $55m Series D raise, a $50m MRFF grant for an artificial heart consortium, K-TIG entering administration, defence budget news, and Queensland's return to venture investing.
The federal MRFF has granted $50 million to the Artificial Heart Frontiers Program, a Monash-led consortium including BiVACOR, to advance a total artificial heart; the team earlier received $1 million in 2021.
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