THE creator of not-for-profit pharmaceutical firm Medicines Development for Global Health, Mark Sullivan, has been named the 2019 Victorian Australian of the Year.
The business is an independent biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of affordable medicines and vaccines for those who need them most.
Key achievements include FDA approval for moxidectin, a new drug which treats river blindness, affecting 20 million people in sub-Saharan Africa.
Sullivan joins other state and territory recipients as finalists in the national Australian of the Year awards which will be announced tomorrow in Canberra.
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