Located within the Westmead Health and Innovation District, Cicada's HealthTech Hub supports early-stage health and MedTech companies with incubation, commercialisation training and resources, and collaborative spaces.
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As a resident of the Cicada HealthTech Hub, you'll join a supportive community of entrepreneurs while accessing Cicada Innovations’ deep tech network and the Westmead Health and Innovation District. Gain valuable connections, collaboration, and purpose-built facilities to develop and launch health tech innovations. The HealthTech Hub serves as a strategic entry point for industry partners addressing research and business challenges, furthering Westmead's role as a premier global health and education innovation district.
Prime location within NSW’s largest health precinct, with introductions to potential clinical, research, and industry partners.
Offering affordable and flexible office suites and co-working spaces with full facilities support, including office utilities, meeting rooms, and end-of-ride amenities.
Access to Westmead Research Hub resources at internal rates, including advanced biobanking, genomics, and imaging services, with connections to a peer community, venture funding, legal, regulatory, and manufacturing partners.
We offer a range of commercialisation and translation workshops, courses and mentoring programs for researchers, technologist, entrepreneur or early-stage venture, to build capability and support you at every stage of their journey.
A 2-day, hands-on program designed to provide high-potential early-stage diagnostics, therapeutics, medical devices, and health technologies projects (TRL 1-3) with the tools to develop a clear commercial strategy.
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A six-month coaching program designed to help health tech startups set and achieve critical growth milestones specific to the bio, med, and health sectors.
Bookable online, our office hour meetings provide any individual with the opportunity to seek free guidance, mentorship and idea activation from industry and subject matter experts across all aspects of the commercialisation pipeline. This includes regular sessions with the team from Brandon Capital.
These sessions introduce key commercialisation topics and provide a practical foundation for innovators navigating the complex health tech landscape.
Brandon Capital
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Experienced CFO
Previsior
University of Sydney
The Cicada HealthTech Hub is proudly supported by NSW Government and is part of the Westmead’s Health & Innovation District.
The district includes 4 major hospitals, 4 world-leading medical research institutes, 2 university campuses and the largest research-intensive pathology service in NSW.
By 2036, the number of full-time staff will increase to more than 50,000 and the number of students will expand to more than 10,000.
Among the first projects for development is a viral vector advanced manufacturing facility to provide ground-breaking trial therapies for infections, cancer and genetic diseases.
Cicada Innovations delivers several health-focused program alongside Australasia’s leading life science VC firm, Brandon Capital.
The program will enable the Westmead Health and Innovation District to participate in the Brandon BioCatalyst Collaboration, providing direct access to capital and commercialisation expertise.
Brandon BioCatalyst is a unique collaboration of investors, CSL, government and 50+ leading medical research institutes and hospitals united by a single purpose: generating cutting edge, next generation medical therapies and technologies to improve health and save lives.
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Innovation Quarter Building
Level 3, 160 Hawkesbury Rd
Cnr Darcy Rd and Hawkesbury Rd.
Westmead NSW 2145
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