It took less than a week for Australia’s biotech community to surpass a fundraising target set in aid of industry analyst and writer David Blake, who co-founded respected industry newsletter BioShares and was diagnosed with brain and lung cancer in February.

The Melbourne-based Blake is separated from his extended family in Queensland. But the costs of his in-home nursing support and care will at least be eased by the $106,870 that had been raised, as of Thursday evening, for it through a crowdfunding page.