Articles
Biotech for the rest of the world
The latest medical technology is all very well - if you can afford it. Susan Williamson looks at how one Australian group is coming up with practical healthcare solutions for the developing world. [ + ]
The great divide: therapeutic cloning
Should Australia lift its ban on therapeutic cloning? Few topics in Australian science have generated such strong opinions. Ruth Beran reports. [ + ]
Australian biotech hears the tiger's roar
David Binning finds a wealth of opportunities for Australian integration with other Asian biotech industries. [ + ]
The ASX: A haven for foreign biotech companies?
The Australian Stock Exchange has created a market that attracts not only local biotechnology companies, but also gives opportunities to foreign companies that would be unable to attract capital in their own markets. Helen Schuller reports. [ + ]
OPINION: Taking advantage of our clinical strengths
Australia, take a bow -- you've proved you can compete in the global clinical trials market. But let's not get too complacent, writes Graeme Blackman. [ + ]
REPORT: How we score on pharma R&D
Ruth Beran wraps up a recent report that gives Australia a high rating against other major centres of pharma R&D. [ + ]
Australian biotech: Opportunity for growth
Ruth Beran looks at some of the many highlights expected at the 2005 AusBiotech national conference in Perth, which kicks off on Monday. [ + ]
INTERVIEW: The jewel in India's biotech crown
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw spoke with Melissa Trudinger about ways in which India and Australia can work together in biotech. [ + ]
INTERVIEW: New AusBiotech head stakes her position
Since she took the top job at AusBiotech on the eve of the BIO conference earlier this year, Anna Lavelle has done a lot of listening. Now she's ready to talk -- about her role and her vision for the organisation. [ + ]
Deck the Hall -- the Walter and Eliza Hall, that is
Australia's best-known and most venerable medical research institute, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Parkville, Melbourne, celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. Graeme O'Neill interviewed the Hall's former director, Prof Sir Gustav Nossal, and his successor, Prof Suzanne Cory, about the institute's history and their view of science in Australia today. [ + ]
How a code of practice can help manage biotech's conundrum
The new AusBiotech/ASX code of practice for reporting by life science companies, launched last week, is being hailed as an important milestone in the development of the Australian biotech sector. Here, Michael Aldridge, who was on the committee to review the code's first draft, explains why he believes the code is so important to the industry. [ + ]
Why I got involved with the biotech code of practice
The new AusBiotech/ASX code of practice for reporting by life science companies, launched last week, is being hailed as an important milestone in the development of the Australian biotech sector. Here, Igor Gonda, who was on the committee to review the code's first draft, explains why he believes the code is so important to the industry. [ + ]
Protecting intellectual property in collaborative environments
As products become more complex, firms need to collaborate more with each other and also with their clients to be able to deliver new more capable systems
[ + ]Good design makes safety a pleasure
When Orica Consumer Products (OCP) sold its industrial paints division in 1998 to focus its attention on the decorative coatings business, it asked Tony Green to design a New Technology Centre
[ + ]How Iatia changed its fortunes by changing its business model
Ruth Beran talks with Iatia boss Charles Laycock about the importance of being smart and flexible in designing a good biotech business model. [ + ]