Victorian Government, Johnson & Johnson Innovation and Monash partnership extended

An innovative Victorian Government partnership with industry and academia has been extended, with Victorian medical researchers and early-stage medtech entrepreneurs producing results that are changing lives.

Established in 2018, the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Partnering Office is a public private collaboration between the government, Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC and Monash University.

One of only three Partnering Offices in the world, it enables Victorian researchers and early-stage companies to work with experts from Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC to deliver novel healthcare solutions as part of the government’s work to grow our medical technologies and pharmaceuticals sector.

The Partnering Office works with emerging pharmaceutical, medical device, healthcare companies and academic researchers across Victoria to provide commercialisation training and networking support at no cost, to accelerate life-science research towards commercialisation.

Since 2018, it has provided a platform for collaborative projects, including a multi-year Alzheimer’s disease research collaboration between St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc and the QuickFire Challenge competition, which  creates opportunities for local medtech entrepreneurs and is jointly sponsored by the government and Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC.

It has also hosted research collaborations between Monash and Janssen Biotech, Inc exploring new methods of diagnosis and treatment for coeliac disease and with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV advancing clinical development of inhaled oxytocin for the prevention of  postpartum haemorrhage in developing countries.