Andrew Donohue

PolyActiva Pty Ltd. develops drug-polymer conjugate technology. Its platform technology is used to make plastic components for medical devices from drugs and manufacture process is novel and provides greater flexibility over the composition of the final material and better product outcomes compared with competitor technologies. The firm has built drug-polymer conjugates from a number of drug candidates with different chemical structures and linkage points, demonstrating the plasticity of the technology and developed a number of functional co-monomers and polymer segments, which modularises the production of the final conjugate. The company was founded in February 2010 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research provides medical research services. It undertakes research in a range of areas, preventing and treating diseases including breast, ovarian and blood cancers, type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, coeliac disease and malaria. The firm’s research areas include bioinformatics, cancer biology, cell death, cell signaling, clinical translation, epigenetics, genomics, immunology, and inflammation and vaccine development. The company was founded in 1915 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

Part of Gilead Sciences, Inc., YM BioSciences Australia Pty Ltd. develops cancer treatment pharmaceuticals. The private company is based in Melbourne, Australia.