Innovation Seed Fund supports 12 exciting WA innovations and start-ups
05/11/2025
A total of $4,937,824 has been awarded to twelve Western Australian innovators to support the development of health and medical innovation projects in WA through the Innovation Seed Fund 2024-25 Program.
The Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund Innovation Seed Fund 2024-25 provides the opportunity for WA innovators to develop and commercialise their innovations that could improve the health of West Australians, create high-level health sector jobs and enhance the production/manufacturing capacity of the State.
The Innovation Seed Fund 2024-25 recipients are shown below:
| Recipient | Responsible entity | Activity title | Funding awarded |
| Ms Natalie Barber | DermR Health Research WA Pty Ltd | Translating Insights from the Pilbara Challenge: Advancing The DermR® Patch α2 Through Early Clinical Validation and Design Refinement | $500,000.00 |
| Dr Rodrigo Maron Carlessi | Curtin University | LIVER-Trace: A Blood Test for Early Liver Cancer Recurrence Detection | $499,939.80 |
| Dr Barry Clements | Respirion Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd | Inhaled RSP-1502, an improved treatment of resistant infection and inflammation in persons with Cystic Fibrosis | $649,312.00 |
| Prof Andrew Currie | Murdoch University | NeoSep-4 - Development of a 4-marker Point-Of-Care Lateral Flow Assay for the Rapid Screening of Neonatal Sepsis | $99,842.00 |
| Professor Girish Dwivedi | ProGenis Pharmaceuticals | Revolutionising Aortic Stenosis Treatment with Nucleic Acid Therapy | $100,000.00 |
| Professor Girish Dwivedi | University of Western Australia | Every Heartbeat Matters: a pocket-sized radar to bring advanced heart monitoring into every home | $99,937.00 |
| Dr Thomas Iosifidis | The Kids Research Institute Australia on behalf of the Centre for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia | First-in-class small molecules to improve outcomes in asthma | $499,640.00 |
| Professor Riaz Khan | Australian Institute of Robotic Orthopaedics Pty Ltd trading as ArthoLase | Local Manufacture and Functional Qualification of the HAiLOTM System: Paving the Way for First-In-Human Robotic-Assisted Laser Arthroplasty | $496,332.00 |
| Dr Richard Lipscombe | Proteomics International Pty Ltd | Promarker®Endo: A novel blood test for endometriosis diagnosis | $500,000.00 |
| A/Professor Samuel Lundin | Biotome Pty Ltd | Project Hummingbird: A Novel Diagnostic for Preeclampsia risk | $498,000.00 |
| Dr Nipanjana Patra | Pretect Devices Pty Ltd | Development of a commercialisation ready Minimum Viable Product of Vedette® - a device to prevent Extravasation injury in neonates | $494,821.00 |
| Dr Emily Zhen | Materia Health Pty Ltd | MateriaPOD: Revolutionising the standard of care in organ and tissue transportation | $500,000.00 |
Last Updated:
05/11/2025