$12 Million For New Heart Disease And Diabetes Medical Supports

Department of Health

Fourteen Australian start-up and innovative companies will receive funding and commercialisation support to develop:

  • devices that address atrial fibrillation, ocular drug delivery, high-risk coronary artery disease, cardiogenic shock, stroke, and preeclampsia
  • drugs or treatments for kidney disease, acute ischaemic stroke, diabetic retinopathy, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, type 1 and 2 diabetes, diabetic kidney disease and peripheral arterial disease.

Funding is from the Targeted Translation Research Accelerator program under the MRFF’s Preventive and Public Health Research initiative. Industry will contribute over $17 million in additional funding to these projects.

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