Australia and New Zealand have each registered more clinical trials (per capita) than Germany, UK and the USA according to the World Health Organisation International Clinical Trials Registry Platform! The graph represents the proportion of trials per capita. Ref. Link to data

Mobius Medical spends a great deal of time and business development dollars informing our Northern Hemisphere colleagues of some reasons to come to Australia to conduct trials. We are CRO partner to many varied clients who return to us time and time again to initiate and complete another successful trial. We hope they also enjoy […]

The Australian government (NHMRC, the Department of Health and the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science) are constantly working to improve the clinical trial environment in Australia. Some of the initiatives, which have made significant progress in the last year, are: Timely and more efficient research governance authorisation Efficient Ethics Approval Increased Site Readiness and […]

The Australian clinical trial regulatory process reduces the time to site initiation, by ONLY requiring ethics committee/clinical site approval, followed by a notification to Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). But this year, times to site initiation improved further, with the online clinical trial notification (CTN) scheme. Since July 1, 2015, study sponsors have been notifying the […]

Mobius Medical is again extremely excited to be partnering homegrown, Australian company, Saluda Medical, in their clinical trial of a spinal implant, which may provide a new breakthrough in the relief of back pain. Watch the recent news article here and read more in this Sydney Morning Herald article.

One of the most advantageous aspects of conducting clinical trials in Australia & New Zealand is the expeditious regulatory ‘notification-only’ scheme, which enables companies to initiate even first in human clinical trials quickly. With a streamlined national ethics committee application system in both countries, sites are initiated on average within 4-6 weeks submission. High quality […]

Using a pioneering procedure, a Sydney surgery team have replaced the valves on two hearts while they were still beating. Traditionally, patients have their hearts stopped and a bypass is used while the valves are repaired. In this ground-breaking operation, doctors implanted artificial valves inside the patient while their hearts continued to beat. Each patient […]

Mobius Medical is delighted to be a sponsor of the upcoming San Diego Event to Meet Top Device Experts from the Asia-Pacific. The Asia-Pacific Summit is a two-day intensive summit on medical device regulations in the Asia-Pacific featuring top experts from Taipei, Singapore, Jakarta, Sydney, Kuala Lumpur, and Beijing right to you in beautiful San […]

James Lind is considered the first physician to have conducted a controlled clinical trial of the modern era. Dr Lind, whilst working as a surgeon on a ship, was appalled by the high mortality of scurvy amongst the sailors. He planned a comparative trial of the most promising cure for scurvy. His vivid description of […]

Many international researchers are choosing to conduct their research and development in Australia to take advantage of the new R & D tax incentive program. The key concepts are: A 45% tax offset for expenditure on eligible R & D activities which may be refundable to companies with a group wide turnover of under $20 […]