Researcher, Monash University
Programs: named to Breakthrough Victoria's Breakthrough Fellowship Program (2025) (a place in a program cohort, not a position there).
Stories naming Dr Mohammad Haft Tananian. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Victorian pre-seed program BVUIP, backed by Breakthrough Victoria and seven universities, has funded startups EntroMat, Excelligent and Remagine Labs, plus fellowship grants for three PhD-led ventures.
Breakthrough Victoria interviews a researcher at Monash University who joined its fellowship, describing how program connections redirected his medtech platform from IVF imaging toward endoscopy markets.
Breakthrough Victoria has chosen three academic founders for its new fellowship, providing each with $150,000 to help commercialise research in mental health, IVF and skin cancer detection.
Breakthrough Victoria announces the first three fellows of its $7.5 million fellowship, giving each researcher $150,000 and support to turn research into startups in mental health games, IVF imaging and skin cancer detection.
Breakthrough Victoria's fellowship program puts $150,000 into InnovaIVF, whose founder Mohammad Haft Tananian, a Monash researcher, is building imaging technology to improve which embryos are chosen during IVF.