Stem cell researchers Mark Dawn and Jessica Mar have both received $50,000 Metcalf Prizes from the National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia. [ + ]

Biotron has announced that several of its compounds have demonstrated significant antiviral activity against hepatitis B (HBV) in recently completed preclinical studies. [ + ]

Prima BioMed has presented new data from a phase I clinical trial investigating eftilagimod alpha, its anticancer candidate, in combination with pembrolizumab in unresectable or metastatic melanoma patients. [ + ]

myDNA has conducted a national study into the mental health of Australians, revealing that two-thirds of people believe that improvements could be made to their medication. [ + ]

Fresh Science — an Australia-wide competition helping early-career researchers find, and then share, their stories of discovery — is now underway for 2017. [ + ]

Singaporean researchers have created polymer nanoagents that can 'light up' tiny areas of diseased tissues that conventional methods fail to detect. [ + ]

Medical and health experts from across Australia and New Zealand recently convened in Adelaide to discuss the way forward for particle therapy in Australia. [ + ]

The Zero Childhood Cancer program — said to be one of the world's most comprehensive child cancer personalised medicine studies — has finally reached Western Australia, seven weeks after its national launch. [ + ]

The nominees for the 2018 NSW Australian of the Year Awards have been announced, with several scientists and inventors reaching the finals of both the Australian and Young Australian of the Year categories. [ + ]

The ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Biopharmaceutical Innovation has been officially opened at The University of Queensland, 16 months after it was initially announced. [ + ]

Scientists have reconstructed a fully functional epidermis, covering approximately 80% of the total body surface area, for a seven-year-old patient with a genetic skin disease called Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa (JEB). [ + ]

Australian biochemist and molecular biologist Professor John Shine AC has been elected president of the Australian Academy of Science. [ + ]

The mechanism of how cells work is key to understanding how tumours metastasize as well as tissue regeneration and other bodily functions. [ + ]

MTPConnect and the Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly boost the Australian medtech industry. [ + ]

A group of international researchers has developed a web tool, RefEx, that can easily search gene expression data available in public databases. [ + ]