We support researchers, clinicians and entrepreneurs, who are seeking strategic connections and advice as they develop their innovation and navigate their partnership and commercialisation pathway.
We’re here for the medical device, pharmaceuticals, biotech and digital health companies. We want to see you succeed in global markets, while leveraging local capability.
We assist companies, multinationals and investors seeking new technologies and exciting investments, to navigate the Western Australian ecosystem. We can connect you to innovators, identify opportunities, uncover technologies and capabilities, and help you understand the local context.
We help research teams make an impact by sharing their capabilities, connecting them to industry, developing their translational capacity and supporting the coordination of statewide, strategic projects. We also have our eyes on the national agenda – and can make sure you’re connected to it.
We offer advice, guidance, and connections to support your commercialisation strategy. Whether you’re preparing for partnerships or getting investor-ready, we provide tailored support to help you succeed in the competitive medical technology landscape.
Think of us as a ‘concierge service’ – we connect you with the right people, organisations, infrastructure, and resources to advance your commercialisation efforts. Leveraging our national and international networks, we facilitate introductions with warm leads, maximising the potential for successful partnerships and collaborations.
With extensive experience and knowledge of Australia’s commercialisation funding landscape and innovation investment pathways, we can identify and support commercialisation grants, investment, and revenues. We can also review your proposal, connect project partners and leverage our extensive networks to access global markets.
We are your ecosystem navigators. We can help you explore WA’s health and medical life sciences ecosystem and make connections to our people, organisations, capabilities, infrastructure and resources. You can leverage our capacity to coordinate events and communicate to an engaged Western Australian audience.
We host and co-host events, from regular networking sessions and seminars to roundtables and tours. We also keep you updated on sector news via LinkedIn and email, celebrating success stories and sharing opportunities. Share your news with us for sector-wide promotion.
We design and deliver programs that enhance innovation and commercialisation skills for researchers, innovators, and professionals in a variety of topics like grant writing and media/PR. Our flagship programs like Perth Biodesign equip the next generation of biomedical innovators with the tools for success.
Perth Biodesign provides educational training in healthcare innovation using the Stanford Biodesign methodology, which focuses on a prescriptive method of identifying unmet clinical needs, inventing solutions that address these needs and creating implementation strategies that fit within the complex healthcare landscape.
Perth Biodesign courses bring together multidisciplinary teams of people passionate about making a difference in healthcare and build the connection between industry, academia, health services, and specialised services providers to create a healthcare innovation opportunity. Perth Biodesign programs are experiential in nature, focusing on biomedical entrepreneurship, are designed for the Australian biomedical environment, and thrive on the support of the local ecosystem.
The Perth Biodesign flagship course is delivered by the University of Western Australia under the WA Life Sciences Innovation Hub. It is a 7-month, part-time course in which teams of engineers (including software engineers), clinicians, researchers and business professionals find unmet clinical needs and create a medical technology or digital health solution.
Browse through our case studies to learn more about the work we do in medtech, pharmaceuticals, biotech and digital health. Discover how innovators are accessing our services to attract funding, expand their global footprint, develop new technologies, gain valuable skills and training and attract investment to Western Australia.
This World Health Day, we’re highlighting the incredible work being done in WA that fit this year’s theme, “Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures.”
Metabolic Health Solutions (MHS) is a digitally-enabled medtech company founded in WA in December 2015 with a mission to revolutionize the way metabolic health is measured, monitored, and manage.
Western Australian BIO delegates reunited recently to reflect on their experiences at the recent 2024 BIO International Convention, the world’s largest biotech partnering event held this year in San Diego.
Browse our selection of reports, providing insights to our sector locally, national and internationally.
The Sustainable Health Review Final Report was published in April 2019, outlining eight Enduring Strategies and 30 Recommendations to progress the sustainability agenda and identify changes required, with priorities that must be considered in implementation.
The WA Health and Medical Research Strategy 2023–2033 outlines the priorities and direction of health and medical research for the state. The strategy leverages the distinct advantages and opportunities of WA's unique geography and population to strengthen research capability across the sector.
The strategy will build on Western Australian Government initiatives to stimulate and strengthen the industry over the next four years, and position the health and medical life sciences sector in WA as a world-leading, sustainable and value-adding industry.
“The WA Life Sciences Innovation Hub is here to support anyone involved in the creation, development and commercialisation of novel medical products – in any way that we can.
Much like innovation is a team sport, similarly the ecosystem that supports innovations to flourish is also a team effort.
It’s a pleasure to work daily with our WALSIH partners, the WA government and the University of Western Australia, to support everyone in WA working hard to turn innovation into impact.”
“The WA Life Sciences Innovation Hub is a concierge service, facilitator, connector and training provider.
We help people navigate the health and medical life sciences innovation ecosystem in Western Australia, as well as connecting to broader Australian and international partners and networks.
We identify gaps in the ecosystem. By partnering with proven best-in-class providers or through our own initiatives, we look to address the unmet needs of the sector.”
