Life sciences, information technology and medical research companies will receive a $60 million Australian Government investment to support start-up ventures.

Wireless tracking and sensor company Bluechiip will list on the ASX on Thursday 9 June 2011 after several months winding up to the big day. [ + ]

Victorian researcher Dr Wen Qui received the Premier’s Award for Health and Medical Research for her work in understanding how ovarian cancers spread. [ + ]

For Australian life sciences companies, the importance of being deal ready is more pressing than at any time since the middle of the last decade. [ + ]

Melbourne-based biotech plans to develop a nasal spray to treat otitis media with effusion (OME). [ + ]

A medical researcher, Dr Michelle Tate, has received $8000 and a commendation in recognition of her investigation into the ‘flu virus’ from the Premier of Victoria.

A public health researcher, Dr Andrew Steer, has received a commendation in the 2011 Premier’s Award for Health and Medical Research. His investigations into the bacteria which causes rheumatic fever, pharyngitis and impetigo are changing policy at an international level.

A Melbourne researcher, whose research has received international attention, has received a commendation in the 2011 Premier’s Award for Health and Medical Research.

Dr Wen Qiu, who has researched how breast and ovarian cancers spread, has won the Victorian Premier’s Award for Health and Medical Research 2011.

Researchers at the University of New South Wales have identified the molecular switch that kicks T cells into action using super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. [ + ]

Sage-N Research has signed an exclusive agreement with the US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) to license technology for microbial identification.

Chemists from the University of Sydney have shed light on the sun's role in mixing up molecules, with implications for the extent that pollutants are dispersed across the Earth's surface and how quickly they are removed.

Funding by Woolworths will support the Primary Industry Centre for Science Education program that encourages high school science students to consider a career in agricultural science.

South Australian universities’ research projects have received $6.3m in funding to help combat antibiotic-resistant superbugs, develop a new treatment for cataracts and improve roadside and workplace drug testing.

Australian Government funding of $4.95m will assist Western Australian universities to partner with governments and industry to research the control of crop-eating insects, improve the communication of fire threat information and better understand the learning needs of rural and remote Indigenous vocational education students.