Industry News
'Baker Biopolis' opens doors with first networking event
Melbourne's Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct (AMREP), locally known as the Baker Biopolis, kicked off last night with its first networking event aimed to bring researchers at AMREP's Baker and Burnet Institutes together with the companies located in the precinct. [ + ]
Where art and science meet
University of New South Wales researchers have won a major grant for a project described as "cutting-edge in arts and science research".
[ + ]Hospital denies it will outsource bioinformatics
The controversial sacking of a bio-IT worker by St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne has forced the hospital to deny it has any current plans to outsource bioinformatics activity. [ + ]
Woolcock, Hunter join forces in sleep research network
The Woolcock Institute of Medical Research in Sydney and the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) in Newcastle have joined forces to form what they claim is the largest respiratory and sleep research network in the southern hemisphere. [ + ]
Novogen drug results released at ASCO meeting
Novogen subsidiary Marshall Edwards' anti-cancer drug phenoxodiol has featured at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago this week, with Yale researchers presenting data demonstrating that the compound is added to low levels of standard chemotherapy agent cisplatin, the size of human ovarian cancer tumours in animal models by up to 75 per cent. [ + ]
Starpharma in trans-Tasman dendrimer alliance
Starpharma has formed an alliance with New Zealand Crown Research Institute company Industrial Research Limited (IRL) to develop carbohydrate functionalised dendrimers, in a five-year collaboration supported to the tune of $AUD5.1 million by the New Zealand government. [ + ]
Nominations open for major science awards
Nominations are now open for the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering's Clunies Ross award for 2004. [ + ]
$9m in ARC grants released
Some of Australia's best-known biotechs -- including Biota, Gradipore, Amrad, Proteome Systems, Nanomics, Starpharma and PanVax -- will benefit from the latest round of Australian Research Council linkage grants. [ + ]
Tailoring chemotherapy to specific cancer cells
As part of the Australian Society for Medical Research's (ASMR) Medical Research Week, the Amgen Medical Researcher Award was presented today to Dr Ricky Johnstone from Melbourne's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. [ + ]
Malaria mosquito research attracts WHO interest
Research into mosquitoes and the transmission of malaria conducted by the University of Technology, Sydney, in collaboration with the Australian Army Malaria Institute (AMI), has sparked international interest.
[ + ]Peplin raises $3.5m, plans to broaden pipeline
Queensland-based Peplin Biotech has raised $AUD3.5 million before expenses through the placement of five million shares at $AUD0.70 to domestic and international institutional investors. [ + ]
NSW minister to recruit research strategy panel
New South Wales science minister Frank Sartor has continued to boost the state's commitment to research by calling for a panel of eminent researchers to help develop a medical research strategy for the state. [ + ]
Eiffel names CEO as executive director
Eiffel Technologies' CEO Christine Cussen has joined the company's board as an executive director. [ + ]
Pruning the evolutionary tree
Australian scientists have given the human family tree a dramatic pruning following a detailed study of genetic data from humans and chimpanzees.
[ + ]Flu discovery to help thwart next pandemic
University of Melbourne scientists have found a chink in the flu virus's armour that could hold the key to preventing the next predicted pandemic.
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