Trajan Scientific and Medical (Trajan) welcomed Federal Minister for Industry, Innovation & Science, Hon. Greg Hunt MP to the company’s Global Headquarters in Melbourne.

The visit provided the opportunity for Trajan to showcase its leadership approach to leveraging academic and commercial partnerships to deliver innovative solutions to the global scientific and medical market. The Trajan team was also able to share their passion to see Australia build sustainable knowledge-based industries to underpin the countries future prosperity.

Chief Executive Officer of Trajan, Stephen Tomisich comments: "Trajan identified the opportunity to leverage its impact through collaboration with academia and start-ups, some time ago. To have Minister Hunt here shows his genuine interest in what we are already doing. We are enthused and excited by the Government’s refreshed recognition of the importance of innovation for the nation’s prosperity.”

Minister Hunt’s tour of Trajan’s Global Headquarters comes just 12 months after Prime Minister Turnbull also visited the site highlighting the need for a national innovation and science agenda.

Mr Tomisich continues: “Trajan is a strong advocate of the need to rollout new models to not only fund, but nurture innovative start-ups. Trajan’s view is that it isn’t just about those start- ups “crossing the Valley of Death”, but also about creating long term economic benefit through the creation of new Australian-based enterprise.”

During the visit the Minister witnessed Trajan’s range of innovative niche technologies that now sees it in a global leadership role in many scientific applications. He also reviewed the company’s collaborative approach to leveraging its new technology pipeline towards a future vision of the “personalisation of science”.

Mr Tomisich concluded: “Science is moving from the lab towards all of us as individuals, connecting with our smart devices, bringing more information into view for better wellbeing outcomes.”

Mr Tomisich concludes it is an honour to be able to share Trajan’s story with Minister Hunt: “Trajan’s vision is that through science interfacing with society, we can impact the well-being of a growing number of communities globally. We are committed to having an active involvement with both government and academia to drive Trajan’s collaborative model, supporting growth of the scientific industry in Australia.”