The joint ACES and St Vincent's Hospital AdBioFab Conference held in May sparked a frenzy of interstate media attention, with broad-sheet news spreads and morning talk show segments aplenty over the weekend.

Mr BIll Frank of SMR Technologies is the first participant in the 2013 ACES-Industry Advanced Fabrication Fellowship scheme. Mr Frank will develop a hands-on understanding of innovative fabrication technology and materials potential.

Disease and illness monitoring and controlling medication dosage with your smart phone could soon be reality following collaboration between ACES and the Sunchon National University in South Korea.

Ideas are brewing and being stirred at the AusMedTech breakfast (Thursday 16th May) where researchers, business executives and policy makers have come to hear about the latest developments in fabrication of medical devices.