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• Project deals blow to flies.

  - 2005-06-22

  Jun 22, 2005 (The Weekly Times - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian Wool Innovation Limited awarded a $A1.4 million grant to a project to sequence the genome of the Australian sheep blowfly. The project will be led by the University of Melbourne. Its aim is...

  Tags: Biotechnology, genome, University of Melbourne

• Blood-clot drug offers new heart.(Brief Article)

  - 2005-04-18

  Apr 17, 2005 (Herald Sun - ABIX via COMTEX) A new drug to stop blood clots is being developed in Australia and the UK. The Melbourne-based biotechnology group, Cerylid Biosciences, has the commercial rights to the drug. The drug is being tested at the ...

  Tags: Biotechnology, University of Melbourne

• Innovation up but still low by world standards.

  - 2003-01-20

  Jan 20, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Listed biotechnology company Cochlear has been rated Australia's most innovative company for fiscal 2001. It spent $A27.7m on R&D in the 2000-2001 financial year. It also registered five new designs and 21 new...

  Tags: Australia, Biotechnology, R&D, University of Melbourne

• States vie for attention at biotechnology gathering.

  - 2002-06-10

  Jun 10, 2002 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- Many Australian States are vying to become the country's biotechnology leader. Most State premiers are to attend the BIO 2002 event, a four-day conference in Toronto, Canada, that is expected to attract as...

  Tags: Australia, Biotechnology, University of Melbourne

• Fat off the land.

  - 2002-04-11

  Apr 11, 2002 BRW ABIX via COMTEX -- Metabolic Pharmaceuticals listed on the Australian sharemarket in 1998. The Australian biotechnology firm has raised $A18m between that time and 2002. A further capital raising is planned for 2002 or beyond. Circadian Technologies spun off the...

  Tags: Biotechnology, FINANCE, shareholder, University of Melbourne

• Unis sow early seeds of success.

  - 2001-08-27

  Aug 28, 2001 The Age ABIX via COMTEX -- Two Australian universities have set up a business unit called Uniseed to provide capital for research work. Uniseed's CEO, David Evans, said the pre-seed capital provided will take the project, an idea or a patent,...

  Tags: Australia, Biotechnology, University of Melbourne

• Going retro.

  - 2001-08-13

  Aug 14, 2001 The Age ABIX via COMTEX -- University of Melbourne researcher, Pierre Scotney, is developing a gene therapy for heart disease. Scotney is unravelling the structure of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-B) protein by nuclear magnetic resonance and x-ray protein ...

  Tags: Biotechnology, PRODUCTIVITY, researcher, University of Melbourne

• Prescription for a healthy life.

  - 2001-08-04

  Aug 5, 2001 Sunday Herald Sun ABIX via COMTEX -- The Victorian Government is attempting to make the state a leader in biotechnology during August 2001. John Brumby, State and Regional Development Minister, claims that Victoria is set to become one of the...

  Tags: Biotechnology, leader, Monash University, University of Melbourne