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Engineering + Innovation =

Better Lives

We’re transforming the future of medical technology, where advanced imaging, wearable devices, implants, robotics and surgical simulation come together to change patient outcomes.
From next-generation surgical tools to human digital twin modelling and neurorehabilitation systems, we support every stage of medtech development: design, test, trial and scale. 

Innovation & Research Strengths

Our MedTech ecosystem is focused on high-impact clinical technologies and personalised solutions. We bring together biomedical engineers, clinicians, rehabilitation experts and digital designers to drive innovation in:

  • Advanced medical imaging and digital diagnostics
  • Personalised implants, prosthetics and wearable devices
  • Neurovascular and orthopaedic interventions and clinical training
  • Rehabilitation robotics and remote monitoring
  • Surgical simulation and precision planning
  • Artificial organs and smart biomaterials
  • Pain-free dental devices

Our medtech innovation is driven by leading research teams and cutting-edge facilities across the precinct:

  • Australian Centre for Precision Health Technologies (PRECISE) – advancing human digital twins and projects like BioSpine, BioWraps, BioLimbs, SmartiWear and AlignUs.

  • BiVACOR – developing the world’s first rotary artificial heart, part of a $50M MRFF program with Griffith University.

  • NeuTex Centre – pioneering image-guided surgery, simulation and robotics in partnership with Philips.

  • ADaPT Institute – enabling 3D prototyping, personalised medicine and smart material design.

  • Gold Coast Health – delivering clinical research and surgical innovation, including incisionless procedures.

  • The Hopkins Centre & Beehive Lab – creating next-gen neurorehabilitation tools like The Attention Atlas.

  • Quantum and Advanced Technologies Centre (QATRI) – using micro and nano science to develop therapeutic microdevices and lab-on-chip systems.

Global Industry & Research Connections

Innovation thrives through collaboration

Our strength is in collaboration. We work with global medtech leaders and emerging innovators to bring new ideas to life. 

Phillips

Imaging and surgical navigation technologies

BiVACOR

Artificial heart innovation with hardware/software teams based in the precinct

Nicolab

Advanced stroke imaging 

Intellidesign

Wearable and device engineering

Royal Rehab

Advanced Rehab Robotics and Neuro technologies

Bionics Gamechangers Australia

Driving innovation in bionics for human health and ability

BioSpine

Advanced rehabiliation system for Spinal Cord Injury

Dentroid

Needle and pain-free dentistry

Connect with our medtech innovation network

From Concept to Commercialisation

We don’t just support innovation. We help launch it.

Whether you’re designing a new surgical device or scaling a digital diagnostics platform, we offer clear pathways to bring your medtech innovation to market. Our support spans the full development journey from early design and testing to trial, refinement and commercialisation.

  • Concept Development & Feasibility

    We help turn smart ideas into validated, investable device concepts ready for clinical success and market traction. We can:

    • Support rapid prototyping through CAD, 3D printing, and engineering workshops via Griffith’s Australian Centre for Precision Health and Technology (PRECISE)
    • Facilitate co-design with clinicians, engineers, and end users to ensure usability and clinical fit
    • Provide testing platforms for motion analysis, materials assessment, and early risk evaluation
    • Assist with regulatory strategy, device classification, and early TGA/FDA engagement
    • Connect you with research and clinical advisors to assess workflow fit and integration pathways
    • Enable IP and commercial feasibility checks via Griffith Enterprise
    • Support business model validation through programs like NextGen, LuminaX, and AmplifyTech
    • Provide access to seed funding and proof-of-concept grants
    • Offer human factors guidance and usability insights to inform design
    • Conduct unmet needs analysis and market research for competitive positioning

    We help you design smarter, validate faster, and move confidently toward commercialisation.

    Let’s explore your next step
  • Preclinical Testing & Iterative Prototyping

    We help MedTech innovators move from prototype to validated device with confidence. We can:

    • Enable iterative prototyping and mechanical testing via Griffith PRECISE
    • Facilitate simulated use-case validation at the Clinical Education & Simulation Centre
    • Support usability studies aligned with ISO 62366 and FDA expectations
    • Provide preclinical testing options, including cadaveric simulation, motion capture, and biomaterials analysis
    • Assist with design for manufacturability, sterilisation, labelling, and packaging planning
    • Guide software validation for AI-enabled or connected devices, including IEC 62304 and cybersecurity compliance
    • Connect you with clinical advisors to refine functionality, safety, and product differentiation
    • Support quality and risk management planning, including hazard analysis and documentation
    • Provide access to pilot funding, testing partners, and benchmarking tools
    • Ensure early alignment with regulatory requirements for preclinical and usability evidence

    With this integrated support, we help transform promising prototypes into compliant, test-ready devices.

    Let’s explore your next step
  • Clinical Evaluation & Regulatory Approval

    We support MedTech companies to generate high-quality clinical evidence for market access and adoption. We can:

    • Guide clinical trial design, ethics submission, and governance approvals via a nationally accredited HREC with multi-site capabilities
    • Enable in-hospital and outpatient device evaluations through the Gold Coast Clinical Trials Unit and Clinical Research Facility at GCUH
    • Support investigator-led or sponsor-backed studies aligned to device class, user group, and regulatory needs
    • Provide access to real-world workflows and patient cohorts across surgical, rehab, allied health, and chronic care settings
    • Assist with clinical endpoints, data protocols, and usability validation (ISO 14155)
    • Connect you with biostatistical and regulatory experts for submission support
    • Support human factors testing and safety usability reporting
    • Advise on PMCF strategies and evidence generation
    • Guide preparation for TGA, FDA, and CE regulatory engagements
    • Integrate clinical data into pricing, reimbursement, and commercial strategies

    With trial-ready infrastructure and expert support, we help accelerate your clinical validation journey.

    Let’s explore your next step
  • Manufacturing Scale-up & Quality Systems

    We help MedTech ventures embed quality and scale-readiness into manufacturing for a successful market launch. We can:

    • Provide access to Griffith PRECISE for precision engineering, prototyping, and device assembly refinement
    • Support GMP-readiness and ISO 13485-aligned quality systems for pilot-scale production
    • Facilitate design for manufacturability (DFM) and design transfer to bridge R&D and production
    • Offer support for packaging, labelling, sterilisation validation, and shelf-life testing
    • Connect you with QA and regulatory experts for QMS development and audit prep for TGA, FDA, or CE
    • Assist with formulation characterisation, batch testing, and stability analysis via Griffith’s Analytical & Formulation Lab
    • Advise on materials, sourcing, and supply chain strategy
    • Enable usability and risk validation of commercial-ready devices
    • Support pilot runs and documentation, including DHF, DMR, and technical files
    • Prepare teams for inspections and post-market quality management

    We help ensure your product is ready to scale, comply, and succeed.

    Let’s explore your next step
  • Market Launch & Health Systems Integration

    We help MedTech companies scale through strategic engagement with health systems and market integration. We can:

    • Connect you with clinicians, procurement teams, and health leaders via the Gold Coast Health Innovation Office
    • Support real-world evaluations through embedded hospital and community testbeds to generate outcomes data
    • Provide health economics expertise and reimbursement support for government and private payers
    • Link you to export assistance, trade missions, and investment via Trade & Investment Queensland and INVEST Gold Coast
    • Offer access to funding, investor networks, and accelerator programs through LSQ and MTPConnect
    • Assist with go-to-market strategies across hospital, private, and consumer health channels
    • Connect you to partners across digital health, distribution, and integrated care
    • Support post-market surveillance and compliance to maintain regulatory standing
    • Guide branding and communication strategies tailored to health audiences
    • Facilitate licensing, partnerships, and service contracts for long-term success

    We help you embed, expand, and thrive – locally and globally.

    Let’s explore your next step

We help turn smart ideas into validated, investable device concepts ready for clinical success and market traction. We can:

  • Support rapid prototyping through CAD, 3D printing, and engineering workshops via Griffith’s Australian Centre for Precision Health and Technology (PRECISE)
  • Facilitate co-design with clinicians, engineers, and end users to ensure usability and clinical fit
  • Provide testing platforms for motion analysis, materials assessment, and early risk evaluation
  • Assist with regulatory strategy, device classification, and early TGA/FDA engagement
  • Connect you with research and clinical advisors to assess workflow fit and integration pathways
  • Enable IP and commercial feasibility checks via Griffith Enterprise
  • Support business model validation through programs like NextGen, LuminaX, and AmplifyTech
  • Provide access to seed funding and proof-of-concept grants
  • Offer human factors guidance and usability insights to inform design
  • Conduct unmet needs analysis and market research for competitive positioning

We help you design smarter, validate faster, and move confidently toward commercialisation.

Let’s explore your next step

We help MedTech innovators move from prototype to validated device with confidence. We can:

  • Enable iterative prototyping and mechanical testing via Griffith PRECISE
  • Facilitate simulated use-case validation at the Clinical Education & Simulation Centre
  • Support usability studies aligned with ISO 62366 and FDA expectations
  • Provide preclinical testing options, including cadaveric simulation, motion capture, and biomaterials analysis
  • Assist with design for manufacturability, sterilisation, labelling, and packaging planning
  • Guide software validation for AI-enabled or connected devices, including IEC 62304 and cybersecurity compliance
  • Connect you with clinical advisors to refine functionality, safety, and product differentiation
  • Support quality and risk management planning, including hazard analysis and documentation
  • Provide access to pilot funding, testing partners, and benchmarking tools
  • Ensure early alignment with regulatory requirements for preclinical and usability evidence

With this integrated support, we help transform promising prototypes into compliant, test-ready devices.

Let’s explore your next step

We support MedTech companies to generate high-quality clinical evidence for market access and adoption. We can:

  • Guide clinical trial design, ethics submission, and governance approvals via a nationally accredited HREC with multi-site capabilities
  • Enable in-hospital and outpatient device evaluations through the Gold Coast Clinical Trials Unit and Clinical Research Facility at GCUH
  • Support investigator-led or sponsor-backed studies aligned to device class, user group, and regulatory needs
  • Provide access to real-world workflows and patient cohorts across surgical, rehab, allied health, and chronic care settings
  • Assist with clinical endpoints, data protocols, and usability validation (ISO 14155)
  • Connect you with biostatistical and regulatory experts for submission support
  • Support human factors testing and safety usability reporting
  • Advise on PMCF strategies and evidence generation
  • Guide preparation for TGA, FDA, and CE regulatory engagements
  • Integrate clinical data into pricing, reimbursement, and commercial strategies

With trial-ready infrastructure and expert support, we help accelerate your clinical validation journey.

Let’s explore your next step

We help MedTech ventures embed quality and scale-readiness into manufacturing for a successful market launch. We can:

  • Provide access to Griffith PRECISE for precision engineering, prototyping, and device assembly refinement
  • Support GMP-readiness and ISO 13485-aligned quality systems for pilot-scale production
  • Facilitate design for manufacturability (DFM) and design transfer to bridge R&D and production
  • Offer support for packaging, labelling, sterilisation validation, and shelf-life testing
  • Connect you with QA and regulatory experts for QMS development and audit prep for TGA, FDA, or CE
  • Assist with formulation characterisation, batch testing, and stability analysis via Griffith’s Analytical & Formulation Lab
  • Advise on materials, sourcing, and supply chain strategy
  • Enable usability and risk validation of commercial-ready devices
  • Support pilot runs and documentation, including DHF, DMR, and technical files
  • Prepare teams for inspections and post-market quality management

We help ensure your product is ready to scale, comply, and succeed.

Let’s explore your next step

We help MedTech companies scale through strategic engagement with health systems and market integration. We can:

  • Connect you with clinicians, procurement teams, and health leaders via the Gold Coast Health Innovation Office
  • Support real-world evaluations through embedded hospital and community testbeds to generate outcomes data
  • Provide health economics expertise and reimbursement support for government and private payers
  • Link you to export assistance, trade missions, and investment via Trade & Investment Queensland and INVEST Gold Coast
  • Offer access to funding, investor networks, and accelerator programs through LSQ and MTPConnect
  • Assist with go-to-market strategies across hospital, private, and consumer health channels
  • Connect you to partners across digital health, distribution, and integrated care
  • Support post-market surveillance and compliance to maintain regulatory standing
  • Guide branding and communication strategies tailored to health audiences
  • Facilitate licensing, partnerships, and service contracts for long-term success

We help you embed, expand, and thrive – locally and globally.

Let’s explore your next step

Purpose-Built Infrastructure

We offer hands-on access to specialised research and development facilities:

  • Cohort Innovation Space – coworking labs and medtech startup hub
  • Proxima and RDX buildings – home to clinical, commercial and tech partners
  • NeuTex and ADaPT – spaces for simulation, training, design and 3D prototyping
  • Testing labs – for mechanobiology, biomechanics and robotics
Connect to explore our medtech-ready spaces

Talent & Workforce Pipeline

We’re building the medtech workforce of the future. Our precinct is deeply integrated with Griffith University, clinical researchers, robotics developers and digital health specialists.

  • Co-designed training programs in biomedical and mechanical engineering
  • Access to students and postdocs through research collaborations and internships
Build your team where innovation and industry are already connected

Gold Coast Advantage

Australia’s lifestyle capital is now a global biotech destination.

There’s a reason medtech leaders are choosing to grow here. Our precinct offers:

  • Seamless connection to hospitals, universities and global collaborators
  • A thriving innovation community with tailored support and funding access
  • 6 Star Green Star-rated spaces in Lumina, RDX and Proxima
  • A lifestyle that helps attract and retain top talent

Become part of a growing global

MedTech Ecosystem?

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Success Stories

Clare Minahan

Come and experience the ecosystem they’ve dropped themselves into, it’s incredibly powerful because of the people that are coming, the people you have access to, and the athletes you have access to. It’s not just an environment of opportunity, it’s incredibly positive. If you came and experienced that ecosystem, you’d find those two major pillars: access, and a really positive environment.

Clare Minahan – Associate Professor, Griffith University

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When I think about the number of elite athletes we have at Griffith University, right here on our doorstep, and the way we can connect sports tech companies directly to them, it’s incredible. Add to that the semi-professional athletes at the Southport Sharks and the fact that sport is in the Gold Coast’s DNA. We’re so lucky to have an innovation precinct purpose-built to support sports tech, it’s a game changer.

Craig Rowsell – Director, Gold Coast Health & Knowledge Precinct

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Mayor Tom Tate

The 2018 Commonwealth Games put us on the world stage for sport and innovation, and one thing about the Gold Coast is, once we’re on the world stage, we don’t get off it. That momentum sparked lasting legacies like the Health and Knowledge Precinct, along with other high-performance centres across the city. It all feeds off each other, and that’s how the best in sports tech find their way to the Gold Coast.

Tom Tate – Gold Coast Mayor

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As a student passionate about advanced medical research and its potential to transform lives, the Precinct offers an ideal environment for connecting with like-minded and leading individuals. The people here are proactive, always ready to offer support and inspiration, making it a fantastic place for someone like me who is just starting.  

Dennis Nguyen – Student

Griffith University
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Coming back from the US, where we work very closely with the world-renowned Texas Heart Institute, to see the expansion of the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct made it really attractive for us to bring our technology back here to work with a world-leading laboratory at Griffith.

DANIEL TIMMS, Founder and CTO

BiVACOR
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