Biotech leaders recognised by Industry Excellence Awards

Thursday, 31 October 2019 / AusBiotech

Kath Giles and Dr Christobel Saunders (centre) Winners of Emerging Company of the Year

• Inaugural AusBiotech Life Sciences Legacy Award: Mr Chuck Feeney

• AusBiotech and Johnson & Johnson Innovation Industry Excellence Awards

• Industry Leadership Award: Sue MacLeman

• Company of the Year: PolyNovo

• Emerging Company of the Year: OncoRes Medical

Emerging Company of the Year: OncoRes Medical

OncoRes Medical, led by Dr Kath Giles, CEO and Managing Director, is an innovative medtech company that has made great strides in its short life since it was founded in late 2016. Based on technology from the University of Western Australia, the Harry Perkins Institute and a leading WA breast cancer surgeon, OncoRes Medical is developing a hand held, real time device to monitor the margin of tumours during breast conservation surgery and is on track to deliver significant patient impacts. The probe will help surgeons delineate cancerous tissue, with the aim of cutting down the amount of follow-up surgery required by women with breast cancer. Around 65% of women only need to have the lump removed as opposed to the whole breast.

OncoRes Medical recently won a Tech 23 award as well as the MedTech Innovator Value Award at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s 27th Annual Medical Device Conference.

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