What are the key challenges in developing biocompatible implants? In the last five years, our understanding of the mechanisms by which organisms control their bacterial resistance has advanced to the point where antibiotics’ effectiveness may be questioned. The challenge ahead is that antibiotic resistance is such a common feature of bacterial diseases that even more investigators, including clinical researchers and a limited number of clinicians, are now focusing on a more effective, biocompatible route of treatment. The solution is in our hands. With more focus, it has become possible to develop new bioprocesses for oral drug delivery systems, because in a clinically relevant and tractable way, antibiotics can now serve as an adequate substitute for conventional intravenous therapies by controlling bacterial resistance. During the recent debate on oral drug therapy—in particular its administration—in Australia and New Zealand \[[@B1],[@B2]\], the National Healthcare Foundation for Australia (NHFPA) invited two initiatives into consideration to raise awareness of the limitations of oral drug therapy in the health sciences. First, the partnership between Medicare, the Australian National Health and Clinical Research Council Australia (ANCA) and the Department of Health of the Ministry of Health of Aus and New Zealand was launched just over a week before the World Health Organization’s World Health Summit in Geneva \[[@B3],[@B4]\]. Our collaboration with Medicare allowed us to establish an intermediate agreement in the form of a multiaward MOU with the Department of Health, MOU and the Office of the Director of Public Health at a national level \[[@B5]\]. As illustrated in Figure [1](#F1){ref-type=”fig”}, the main results of this collaboration are the following– (a) We had very positive conversations with one of the top ranking medical researchers to discuss the standardization that we had as well to get relevant information on our collaboration. This information has already been made available for release. (b) We received financial support from the National Council for Health and Care Excellence (NCHEF) project. Our partners will be instrumental in promoting this position within the NHFPA. (c) We were given from their previous work the opportunities to share a collaborative effort with another organization to identify and design a biocompatible vaccine delivery system for the life sciences. This led to the establishment of this initiative in April 2004, and the submission of materials by the NHFPA in January 2005. (d) We can also start designing bioprocesses for clinical application in humans; in particular, using the FDA-approved biocompatible drugs for the treatment of certain forms of various human diseases. The bioprocess design is a prototype of the FDA-approved biocompatible drug and nanocarriers’ formulations currently in the market; thus, our bioprocess development programme is an iterative process evolving from early phase to end stage with new bioprocess designs during the first phase (Figure [2](#F2){ref-type=”fig”}). 






