Monash U med research partners with venture capitalists

Monash University’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute has joined the Medical Research Commercialisation Fund, which has $530m under management and invests in early stage development and ready for market medical technologies. MRCF includes major medical research institutes and their associated hospitals. The Monash BDI has 700 scientists in 120 teams, variously working on, cancers, cardiovascular disease, human development and stem cells, infection and immunity, metabolic disease and obesity, and neuroscience.