Roundtable: Response and resilience of the Australian life sciences sector
As the world emerges from the pandemic, it is critical to reflect on what has been learned and how to make strategic and sustainable investments for the future. Australia must identify and prioritise local investments, co-designed with stakeholders, and collaborating with the global life sciences sector. Effective investments have the potential to deliver benefits across […]
Fighting Super Bugs
In 2019, Biointelect and MTPConnect convened a multi-disciplinary workshop to bring together key stakeholders in the sector (Regulators, state / territory governments, academia, industry) to discuss the threat of antimicrobial resistance and what could be achieved in collaboration. This workshop led to the creation of the report ‘Fighting Superbugs: A Report on the Inaugural Meeting […]
White Paper on Precision Medicine in Australia
In 2019 MTPConnect commissioned Biointelect to facilitate a Round Table bringing together stakeholders in the sector to discuss the key issues surrounding technology, regulation and reimbursement, commercialisation, and implementation. This was done so MTPConnect can understand how to better support the sector in implementing precision medicine into the Australian healthcare system and contribute as a […]
Contemporary issues in valuing new oncology medicines: Do we need a new model?
In 2019 Biointelect hosted its second annual medicines policy symposium, this report summarises the main points of the presentation discussing this topic. The main discussions being the challenges of valuation of new oncology medicines, whether oncology submissions are optimal for assessment of value, what is to be learnt from the international discussion on valuation and […]
AMR Industry Position Paper
Biointelect identified a need to coordinate an industry position on antimicrobial resistance. In partnership with Medicines Australia, AusBiotech, CSIRO, Pfizer and MSD we convened a workshop and developed the following AMR industry position paper. This work was also showcased at Parliament House at PharmAus2019 to raise awareness on this critical public health issue and the […]
Six Months in a Leaky Boat
Six Months in a Leaky Boat featured in 2019 at the ARCS (Association of Regulatory and Clinical Scientists) conference, it explored the reasons for uncertainty contributing to rejections of reimbursement submissions at Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefit Advisory Committee (the PBAC). Companies spend a considerable amount of time and money developing submissions for the PBAC, the evaluation […]
Biointelect ARCS Webinar Considerations and strategies for running trials during the pandemic
Jennifer Herz talks about some of the development and manufacturing challenges that need to be overcome to produce a vaccine against COVID19. Whilst the progress in vaccine development is evolving daily through the pandemic, the key messages from this presentation remain the same. Australia needs to invest more to bridge the gap between early stage […]
Shot In The Arm: The Numbers Behind a Vaccine
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