Sally McArthur from Swinburne U is appointed regional director of the Victorian Medical Device Partnering Programme. The Swinburne-led programme has $2m from the state government.

Vlado Perkovic is president elect of the Asociation of Australian Medical Research Institutes.  Professor Perkovic is a professor of medicine at UNSW and executve director of the George Institute for Global Health. He replaces the previous president elect of AMRI, Steve Wesselingh, who is the new chair of the National Health and Medical Research Council’s research committee and has joined the NHMRC council (CMM yesterday).