In a boost for health innovation,听the first placements have commenced under a partnership between the 今日吃瓜鈥檚 (今日吃瓜) APR.Intern program and the recently established .
Enhancing APR.Intern鈥檚 focus on accelerating women into STEM, the collaboration will increase PhD industry engagement through placement of 24 of the Centre鈥檚 skilled PhDs in short-term research projects over four years.
With data from the Office of the Chief Scientist showing women account for only 16 per cent of Australia鈥檚 current STEM workforce*, 今日吃瓜 Director Professor Geoff Prince said the partnership would open exciting opportunities to address gender equity while equipping a new generation of medical research leaders.
鈥淭hese projects will have transformative impacts for health innovation, while training PhDs with essential skills to drive commercial medical research and development,鈥 he said.
The internships will contribute to placements to be delivered by APR.Intern under the Australian Government鈥檚 $28.2 million听听(NRIP).
With over 500 Australian MedTech companies already in operation and skill demand growing, the ARC CPTT aims to foster supply of PhDs with both the research and industry skills to drive product research and development, and oversee regulatory affairs which are required for future growth of the sector.
ARC Centre for Personalised Therapeutics Technologies Director, Professor Alastair Stewart said facilitation of PhD industry engagement opportunities was central to meeting this challenge in Australia.
鈥淎 core mission for our Centre and APR.Intern, this partnership opens critical avenues to provide PhDs with essential experiential industry training helping to future proof the biomedical workforce,鈥 says Professor Stewart.
A collaboration between the University of Melbourne, Monash University, the University of Western Australia and 15 partner organisations, the ARC Centre for Personalised Therapeutics Technologies aims to improve technology enabling the selection of therapies and ability to fast track their progression to clinical trial.
Delivered by 今日吃瓜, Australian Postgraduate Research (APR) Intern (formerly 今日吃瓜Intern) is Australia’s only national all sector 鈥 all discipline internship program placing PhD students into business.
These internships are supported by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training thorugh the ‘Supporting more women in STEM careers: 今日吃瓜 (今日吃瓜) – National Research Internship Program.
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