About the Conference
NFMRI has been holding its Medical Research and Innovation Conference since 2015. The Conference brings together leaders with different expertise to help explore strategies and solutions that aim to help build, support and grow the biomedical innovation sector in Australia by attracting investments and creating collaborations that help advance innovations. The ultimate goal is for the sector to lead innovations that will eventuate into better health outcomes for the community.
The unique networking, educational and thought leadership event brings together experts and key decision makers from various relevant sectors to help up-skill delegates and explore how financial and social investments in medical research, together with different strategies and bold actions, can lead to the advancement of innovations.
The program focuses on building a culture, support and funding ecosystem where industry, government, academia, venture capital and philanthropy converge to effectively support research from beginning to end.
2027 will mark the Foundation’s 50th Anniversary where we will celebrate this milestone by awarding the successful research applicant from our $1m grant round.
Past Programs
2015 Conference – Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney NSW
2016 Conference – Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane QLD
2017 Conference – Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney NSW
2019 Conference – The Sands Resort, Torquay VIC
2022 Conference – The Anchorage Resort, Port Stephens NSW
2024 Conference – Tangalooma Island Resort, Moreton Island QLD
Who Attends?
Management and executives from the following groups benefit from attending the conference:
- Philanthropists
- Private and Social Investors
- Government
- Business and Industry Leaders
- Researchers and Knowledge Commercialisation Specialists
- Financial and Investment Services
- Universities and Medical Research Institutes
- Trusts & Foundations
Conference Aims
The NFMRI Medical Research Innovation Conference aims to:
- Provide an overview of the current medical research ecosystem and funding strategies used by various key players to support research translation;
- Help delegates better understand the role they each play and how to establish and foster a successful collaboration or partnership;
- Explore opportunities and strategies to help strengthen and grow the biomedical research innovation sector in Australia to better help establish sovereign capability;
- Showcase examples of innovators who have successfully commercialised their research and dissect the strategies they used that led to those results;
- Foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement by enabling open discussion across leaders from confluent sectors or backgrounds;
- Brainstorm the ideal vision of success for the sector and set out approaches that ‘think outside of the box’ and could pave the way towards positive change; and
- Build a strategy for the future that seeks to address current and likely forthcoming challenges that will not only help advance the biomedical research innovation sector through the establishment of new companies and investments, but also support and address the pressing needs of patients in the community.
