Bioscience Consultancy Services
Bioscience, Biotechnology and Clinical Research at the University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne has a long and distinguished history of clinical and scientific research in the biosciences. This has allowed us to develop a vast depth of expertise combining knowledge, experience and infrastructure across many of our Faculties, Graduate Schools and Research Institutes that could have direct application in the discovery, planning, development and testing of new products and services that fall under the broad banner of biotechnology.
The University has many Departments located within major teaching hospitals and a Rural Clinical School headquartered in Shepparton with an associated rural general practice clinic.
The Melbourne School of Land and Environment has regional campuses in Dookie and Creswick providing opportunities for field testing of forest and agricultural products.
Many of our Faculties and Graduate Schools play an active role in the bioscience field. More information on these can be found at:
- The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
- The Faculty of Veterinary Science
- The Faculty of Science
- The Melbourne School of Land and Environment
- The Melbourne School of Engineering
About the Bioscience Consultancy Services
The Bioscience Consultancy Service provides a single entry point for organisations wanting to explore opportunities to work with The University of Melbourne to speed up their product discovery, validation and development programs or to provide an independent external review of their existing data.
To contact us , see details below.
How can the University of Melbourne help you?
The development of new products, technologies and services is all about managing risk, achieving performance milestones and maximising the value of your technology.
We have experts in each of the following fields that could provide you with the edge over your competitor in many areas, including:
- new drugs to improve the quality of human and animal life
- clinical practice in human and animal health
- new crops and food processing technologies
- external and implantable devices
- advanced signal processing and device programming
The University of Melbourne's Bioscience Consultancy Service is an efficient way to fill the gaps in your program, providing an independent opinion on your data or providing advice and access to the latest scientific and clinical capabilities.
From small consultancies to large research and development projects, this program could make a difference to your business.
To deliver the best outcomes for you, we recommend undertaking a six step process so that we can understand the context of the question you are asking of us and in return, provide you with relevant outcomes:
- Contact us early in your development program so that we can provide you with expert advice to assist you in putting together your product development strategy.
- Review available data to develop a development, testing and assessment strategy with expert scientific and clinical input.
- Develop robust and efficient experimental protocols for each stage of development and each individual analysis.
- Undertake experimental studies as required.
- Prepare descriptive report(s) of the study outcomes (factual report).
- Prepare interpretive report(s) based on data from the descriptive report(s).
You increase your development risk by waiting until you have optimised the specific pharmacological or biological effect you are looking for before you understand the spectrum of activities associated with your product.
Before you embark on expensive product optimisation and scale up activities, we can help you:
- Understand whether or not your lead product has any obvious toxicity, other health risk or instability.
- That there is a clear development pathway that is consistent with end-user practices, preferences and constraints.
- Determine where you can find the sites you need for the large scale testing of your product.
Specialists at The University of Melbourne can provide scientific and clinical capability and advice that will save you and your company time and money. All are experts in their field and several have extensive experience in product development in small biotech companies and in multinational companies.
Contact Details
Dr John Bates
Business Development Manager
Melbourne Consulting and Custom Programs
T: +61 3 9810 3103
F: +61 3 9810 3149
E: j.bates@mccp.unimelb.edu.au
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